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A fascinating episode about a Startup that is saving 5 lives a day with its emergency app. The scary stat is that it is quicker to order a pizza through a food delivery app than it is to get a policemen to your house. 00:00 BI78 | Warren Meyers | A ura 02:13 What is Aura and why start it? 04:01 Why is there a lack of innovation in policing 11:31 Creating a path and building a moa

Solving South Africa's transport issues is hard and complex. But with many years building GoMetro, founder Justin Coetzee is helping bring EV Mini-bus taxis to South Africa. Justin shares his fascinating story about how leveraging data is helping make our complex network more efficient and helping lay the case for the move towards EV's. Listen to the full episode to learn about

An interesting story about Skynamo, a sales management platform being built out of Stellenboch. They had to make huge decisions after receiving $32million funding just before Covid as they were rolling their expansion into the US and UK. The Open Letter Team: theopenletter.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-sequeira/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/renier-kriel/ Guest links: https:

Building predictive models are becoming easier and easier in the wake of the AI revolution. It's ability to optimise your business operations could be the next big wave in the new age of AI. 00:00 BI74 James Pattern 01:34 Who is Pattern? 04:03 Founder mode - how hard is it? 07:43 Analytics as a Service for Fashion 15:02 Brining multiple data points into the equation 20:15 Ini

This week we were privileged to host an OG in the South African FinTech space, Anton Gaylard. With years of experience and an extremely impressive portfolio of companies that he has invested in, we dived in to know what it takes to build a FinTech business in South Africa. Sponsor: https://cryptocoffee.co.za/ Fill in this form if you would like the opportunity to be a sponsor: h

Disrupting the telco industry. The word disrupt definitely has lost appeal in recent years, but when an industry is laying dormant, with no new players or innovations, is this not a sign to shake things up. Meet Melon Mobile, South Africa's new mobile provider that allows you to customise your package according to your specific needs. Founder and CEO, Calvin joined us to disc

In this episode, we have another South African founder who has gone to the US to take their startup onto the global stage. Louis is passionate about learning and is creating a startup to motivate and reward people for reading non-fiction books. His startup, Bookt, has created an interactive way for people to read the best non-fiction books while connecting them to a community of

Beginning with the end in mind has shaped the trajectory of Matthew and his startups Lessonspace and CodeforKids. The education space has been disrupted for years with the advancements in technology and with the advent of Covid, remote learning really took off and Lessonspace was given the opportunity to grow. Matthew shares his founder stories and incredible insights into buildi

In this episode, we spoke to Francois de Wet from Wamly who shared his experience building an HRTech startup in South Africa that is helping companies hire better candidates faster. Coming from an organisational psychology background, Francois started building an asynchronous interview platform allowing candidates upload videos to assist with the application process. It is empowe

Serial entrepreneur, Meg Faure, joined us to share her experience building and exiting startups in South Africa. With the goal of building a business that could pay her in her sleep, she started her journey as an author becoming a household name amongst young parents. Meg shared plenty of pearls of wisdom that any founder building a SaaS business company. She shares the principle