titleSouth Africa Start-Ups <subtitle type="text"></subtitle> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://marcopolis.net"/> <id>https://marcopolis.net/</id> <updated>2024-04-28T09:47:50+00:00</updated> <author> <name>Marcopolis</name> <email>info@marcopolis.net</email> </author> <generator uri="http://joomla.org" version="1.6">Joomla! - Open Source Content Management</generator> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://marcopolis.net/south-africa-start-ups/feed/atom.htm"/> <entry> <title>A South African Revolution in Breast Imaging Technology 2016-08-30T11:13:38+00:00 2016-08-30T11:13:38+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/a-south-african-revolution-in-breast-imaging-technology.htm Dominika Bzduchova dominika@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Christopher ‘Kit’ Vaughan, CEO &amp; Founder of CapeRay Medical" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/caperay-april/CapeRay-Medical-Christopher-Kit-Vaughan-CEO-&amp;-Founder.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"I think the end game for CapeRay and for me would be that CapeRay continues to exist, perhaps as a research and development enterprise where we develop new products that we ultimately license off or that get incorporated into other businesses."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Christopher ‘Kit’ Vaughan, CEO &amp; Founder of CapeRay Medical" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/caperay-april/CapeRay-Medical-Christopher-Kit-Vaughan-CEO-&amp;-Founder.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"I think the end game for CapeRay and for me would be that CapeRay continues to exist, perhaps as a research and development enterprise where we develop new products that we ultimately license off or that get incorporated into other businesses."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Knife Capital, a Southern African Growth Equity Fund Manager Focused on Technology-Enabled Ventures 2016-08-30T08:10:20+00:00 2016-08-30T08:10:20+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/knife-capital-a-southern-african-growth-equity-fund-manager-focused-on-technology-enabled-ventures.htm Dominika Bzduchova dominika@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Andrea Bohmert, Managing Partner of Knife Capital" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/knife-capital/Knife-Capital-Andrea-Bohmert-Managing-Partner.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"What’s missing in South Africa is that we don’t have enough serial entrepreneurs, people who have done it two, three, four times. If you start a business the first time around, you need help."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Andrea Bohmert, Managing Partner of Knife Capital" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/knife-capital/Knife-Capital-Andrea-Bohmert-Managing-Partner.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"What’s missing in South Africa is that we don’t have enough serial entrepreneurs, people who have done it two, three, four times. If you start a business the first time around, you need help."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Synthetic Heart Valve Ushers in a Revolution in Heart Surgery - Strait Access Technologies 2016-05-12T17:21:47+00:00 2016-05-12T17:21:47+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/synthetic-heart-valve-ushers-in-a-revolution-in-heart-surgery-strait-access-technologies.htm Scherzando Blaise Karasu scherzando@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Professor Peter Zilla, CEO of Strait Access Technologies" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/strait-access/Strait-Access-Technologies-Prof.-Peter-Zilla-CEO.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"We are expecting the first product, the balloon, to be ready for the first world in early 2017. Our first valves will be ready second half of 2017."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Professor Peter Zilla, CEO of Strait Access Technologies" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/strait-access/Strait-Access-Technologies-Prof.-Peter-Zilla-CEO.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"We are expecting the first product, the balloon, to be ready for the first world in early 2017. Our first valves will be ready second half of 2017."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Silicone Cape: A Catalyst for Tech in the Western Cape 2016-05-09T15:37:04+00:00 2016-05-09T15:37:04+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/silicone-cape-a-catalyst-for-tech-in-the-western-cape.htm Scherzando Blaise Karasu scherzando@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Daniel Guasco, Chairman of Silicone Cape" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/silicone-cape/Silicone-Cape-Daniel-Guasco-Chairman.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"I don’t think our vision is to replicate the original Silicone Valley. You could never do that. The key drive is to build the ecosystem."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Daniel Guasco, Chairman of Silicone Cape" src="images/stories/south-africa-report/western-cape-2016/interviews/silicone-cape/Silicone-Cape-Daniel-Guasco-Chairman.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>"I don’t think our vision is to replicate the original Silicone Valley. You could never do that. The key drive is to build the ecosystem."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p>