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Apr 14, 2026
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5 min read
Between 2020 and 2021, over 200 South African startups raised funding in what became the biggest deal period in SA startup history. The total capital deployed ran into the billions of rands. Five years on, the clearest verdict from the data is this: the companies that built infrastructure for businesses survived and scaled, and the companies that bet on permanent shifts in consumer behaviour mostly didn't.

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Feb 18, 2026
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3 min read
The South African healthtech platform is bringing AI-driven wellbeing directly into WhatsApp

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