What is the future of the Durban Entrepreneurial Ecosystem? How do we create a culture of people involved in tech startups and entrepreneurs? How do we get more Durbanites starting startups?
Is it in disrupting the banking industry with Fintech? Or the use of Blockchain to change the way we purchase property? Or is it the adoption on demand business models like Uber to drastically change how we hire services?
Join us for a panel discussion with some of South Africa's biggest entrepreneurs who will be discussing this on a panel discussion at the next Startup Grind Durban powered by Google for Entrepreneurs.
On this awesome and exciting panel we have
Justin Clarke is the Co-Founder of One Africa Media & Private Property. One Africa Media Africa's largest online groups. He is now the chairman of Wealth Migrate - a blockchain-based global online real estate platform. Justin is Durban based, grew OAM to $1bn in revenue has won the EY world entrepreneur award previously
Dr. Aisha Pandor is Co-Founder of SweepSouth. an online platform for ordering and paying for home cleaning services within a few minutes. Sweep South is South Africa’s only startup to have been accepted by the largest venture capitalist in the world - 500 Startups.
She has has been named the most inspiring women in tech out of 50 others, won the Africa's Breakthrough Female Innovators of 2017 by the World Economic Forum and scooping both the Female Tech/E-Commerce Entrepreneur and Best Tech/E-Commerce Entrepreneur at the PriceCheck Tech & E-Commerce Awards
Ramsay Daly is the Co-Founder of iKhokha, a Durban based tech company that developed a Point of Sale Chip & PIN card reader that plugs into your iPhone, iPad or Android. iKhokha was the first fully South African designed, engineered and manufactured end to end Mobile Point of Sale solution, has recently partnered with Mastercard and Massmart. Ramsay and iKhokha won the best Innovation Award at the 2016 Innovation Forum in Budapest, Hungary and the won the MTN Enterprise App of the year award.
Darlene Menzies is the Founder & CEO of FinFind, Founder of SMEasy Business Software and the Founder & of The Development House. FinFind is an an innovative South African platform which connects lenders and entrepreneurs. Darlene has been selected by the World Economic Forum as the continent’s top female entrepreneur. She also won the South African Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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Private Property & Wealth Migrate
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SweepSouth
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iKhokha
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FinFind
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Justin Clarke is the co-founder and CEO of One Africa Media (OAM), Africa’s largest online classifieds group. OAM owns some of Africa’s most prestigious and lucrative online properties, including PrivateProperty.co.za, South Africa’s leading property website; Jobberman.com, West Africa’s leading job website; Cheki.com, West and East Africa’s largest online auto marketplace; and SafariNow, South Africa’s leading travel and accommodation booking website.
The Privateproperty.co.za story began in 1998 and sent jitters throughout the South African Property industry and a number of systematic attempts were made by real estate heavyweights to shut the company down. From mid 2008 Private Property changed from a private seller website and opened to estate agents. It is now South Africa’s busiest property websites.
Since 2012, the company has expanded across Africa and has become Africa’s largest online classifieds group, focusing on Jobs, Cars, Property and Travel, with central offices in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
Justin expects OAM to grow into a $1bn company within the next five years and recently he was the recipient of the EY World Entrepreneur award.
Aisha Pandor is a South African startup entrepreneur and co-founder of SweepSouth, an online platform for ordering and paying for home cleaning services within a few minutes. SweepSouth connects professional, experienced and insured cleaners with homeowners,
Sweep South is South Africa’s only startup to have been accepted by global accelerator and the largest venture capitalist in the world - 500 Startups
500 Startups is a is lead by entrepreneur and angel investor Dave McClure, has invested in over 1 000 companies and has brought companies such as Behance (acquired by Adobe in 2012), Sunrise (acquired by Microsoft 2015), and Wildfire (acquired by Google in 2012).
She studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, where she completed a PhD degree in Human Genetics and a Business Management certificate at the UCT Graduate School of Business. When she graduated in 2012 Aisha became the first student to graduate with two different qualifications on the same day. She also worked as a management consultant with Accenture.
Aisha received a South African Women in Science Award in 2011 and was named in the Mail and Guardian's List of 200 Young South Africans in 2012.
Darlene Menzies is the Founder & CEO of FinFind, Founder of SMEasy Business Software and the Founder & of The Development House. FinFind is an an innovative South African platform which connects lenders and entrepreneurs. Darlene has been selected by the World Economic Forum as the continent’s top female entrepreneur. She also won the South African Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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