Thursday, 30 August 2018: Today, Seed Academy reveals the State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa after surveying more than 1000 entrepreneurs across the county. The results indicate that entrepreneurs are not thriving and [...]

WDB Seed Fund continues to creatively address funding scarcity At a time when South Africa faces a number of significant economic challenges from slow growth to high unemployment, creating suitable [...]

WDB Investment Holdings (WDBIH) has increased its stake in Seed Engine (incorporating Seed Academy and the WDB Seed Fund) from 35% to 51%, officially confirming Seed Engine as a proudly 51% [...]

Youth entrepreneurship, access to funding and markets remain key challenges More impactful business development support that provides entrepreneurs with robust business basics is needed to increase small business success [...]

The inaugural Seed Academy/WDB AccelerateHer programme, a three-month business accelerator for female entrepreneurs, sponsored by Shell Downstream South Africa concluded by notching up a string of successes for young black [...]

WDB Investment Holdings (WDB) has taken a 30% stake in Seed Engine (incorporating Seed Academy). Grovest, a Venture Capital Company has also taken a 27,5% stake in Seed Engine. Faith Khanyile, CEO of WDB, [...]

Seed Engine, the WDB Investment Holdings (WDBIH) and Grovest have developed a creative response to the dearth of funding for early and growth stage businesses. The WDB Seed Fund will [...]

The challenge, in partnership with Seed Academy, is designed to kick start the businesses of 100 young entrepreneurs with viable business ideas. The City of Cape Town’s Social Development and [...]

Simon wrote to City Press to find out if his business was making a profit after six months. This may seem like an obvious question, but the reality is that [...]

DESMOND Mongwe became an instant millionaire on Wednesday night. This was after Parks Tau, the major of Joburg. announced the three winners in the Hack.Jozi Challenge, and Mongwe took the [...]