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African technology innovation series - Southern Africa

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Join AGF and leading industry experts on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 for a webinar to discuss the investment case for investing in tech enabled Southern African startups.

African technology innovation series - Southern Africa

Start Date: October 7th, 2020

Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM (EST) // 14:00 - 15:00 (UK) // 15:00 - 16:00 (SA)

  • Challenging and changing perception for investors
  • How to scale a global business from Southern Africa and how will that change post-Covid?
  • What is the depth and breadth of the local tech market?
  • Are there sectors where Southern African tech has a competitive advantage?
  • How has the Covid pandemic affected the tech and related investor environment?
  • Can local innovation attract hard currency returns for international investment?

Moderator:

Rob Heath
Rob Heath
Partner, HAVAIC

Rob is a partner of HAVAIC. Rob is an inquisitive, active, original and determined individual. This has led him to perform in and be exposed to a variety of disciplines, sectors and activities in academia, business and sport. After post-grad studies and completing his chartered accountancy articles, Rob worked and travelled in Africa, the USA and the UK as an executive, business founder, CA and advisor. Rob brings practical operational experience, a wealth of multi-sectoral knowledge and detailed financial acumen to the HAVAIC team. Recent sector exposure includes consumer engagement, trend identification, urban mobility, health, financial inclusion and the technologies that surround those.

Panelists:

Joshua Janks
Joshua Janks
Partner, Bowmans

Joshua Janks is a partner in Bowmans’ Cape Town office Corporate Department. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, private equity, venture capital and general corporate and commercial law. Joshua advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, finance transactions, fund formations, and various other corporate and commercial matters. His private equity practice covers all aspects of private equity work, including fund formations and acquisitions and extends to the venture capital space. He has BCom and LLB (cum laude) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Nic Klopper
Nic Klopper
CEO, hearX

Nic Klopper is a renowned entrepreneur, business enthusiast, CEO of hearX and visionary in the digital healthcare space. His experience in business ranges from being an avid start-up investor, to founding 7 successful businesses and exiting 3 of them to date. His expertise, vision and passion for online software as a service application has attracted several companies’ attention, leading to him holding pivotal positions across multiple start-ups.

Nic’s vision is founded in his passion for social impact with the mission to drastically reinvent the healthcare industry using digital solutions, artificial intelligence and big data. He excels in the analysis and commercialisation of market disruptive products, platforms and technologies.

hearX is an award-winning start-up that specialises in digital health solutions for hearing healthcare. To date, by means of these solutions, hearX has impacted more than 1 million people across 39 countries, steering them towards achieving healthy hearing for everyone, everywhere.”

Warren Myers
Warren Myers
CEO, Aura

Warren began his entrepreneurial journey at 23 years old, starting an offsite CCTV monitoring company called Myertal. Myertal is now one of the largest monitoring companies in SA, monitoring over 12 000 CCTV streams with the aid of Ai video filtering software.

In 2017, Warren launched Aura, a technology platform which enables anyone to access the closest on-demand security & medical response vehicle to their location anywhere, anytime using a connected device. Aura has experienced incredible growth in SA over the past 2 years and is now expanding the platform to new emerging markets.

Zach George
Zach George
CIO, Startupbootcamp Africa; Principal, Nedbank VC

Zachariah (Zach) George is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Startupbootcamp Africa – the leading multi-corporate backed venture accelerator program in Africa. In 2013, he founded Cactus Advisors – a specialist corporate finance advisory firm and micro VC fund that has advised and invested in 40+ of Africa’s top tech ventures including Flutterwave, Kudabank, MPost, HouseME, RecoMed and several others. Zach currently serves as a Principal at Nedbank Venture Capital & Alternative Investments.

He was co-featured on the cover of Fast Company Africa in May 2018, Destiny Man Magazine in November 2019, and in December 2019 was recognized as one of the Top 10 Most Influential People in Technology in Africa. In January 2020, he was listed as one of the Top Four Movers and Shapers of Technology in Africa by the prestigious French business daily - Les Echos.

Zach was formerly the head of Africa Investments for U-Start – the largest network of private Multi-Family offices in Europe. Prior to moving to South Africa, he was an investment banker on Wall Street covering M&A, corporate finance strategy and risk management at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Zach has a Master’s degree in Finance & Management from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Sheraan Amod
Sheraan Amod
CEO, RecoMed

Sheraan Amod is a South African entrepreneur with significant experience in technology startups and venture capital. He founded the personalised publishing company Personera in 2009; raising significant venture capital funding and commercializing the company in the USA before selling it to Impression Works LLC in 2013 in a transaction requiring SA Reserve Bank approval. Returning from New York, Sheraan went on to found RecoMed (www.recomed.co.za), the largest and fastest growing online healthcare marketplace and booking platform in Sub-Saharan Africa. RecoMed seamlessly connects doctors and patients in real-time, with a strong consumer and B2B platform business that powers over 50,000 bookings per month for leading independent and enterprise health providers across South Africa. Sheraan holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cape Town.

Ian Lessem
Ian Lessem
Managing Partner, HAVAIC

Ian is the managing partner of HAVAIC, which invests in early-stage, high-growth technology businesses, offering access to local investments with global prospects. Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Ian’s passion for building businesses runs in his genes. This, coupled with over a decade of pan-African investment banking experience across a myriad of infrastructure and real estate projects, corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns, makes him perfectly placed to invest and advise early stage high growth businesses. Ian has a special talent for raising capital and is an expert at strategically aligning businesses for growth, investment and exit.

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