The Startup Club Podcast

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The Startup Club Podcast

Hear the first-hand accounts of innovation, failure, resilience and success in building South Africa’s most exciting startups, scaleups and venture capital funds. 

  1. 12/13/2024

    Abu Addae (LifeCheq): Transforming Financial Advice In Emerging Markets.

    In this episode, we're thrilled to sit down with Abu Addae, Co-Founder and CEO of LifeCheq - the South African fintech democratising access to financial advice and using AI to enable financial advisers to improve client experience and drive efficiency.Founded in 2015, LifeCheq is disrupting the multi-trillion rand financial services sector through it’s tech-first proposition that enhances the effectiveness and accessibility of financial advice in the South African market. The business has sin...

    1h 8m

  2. 10/10/2024

    Calvin Collett (Melon Mobile): Reinventing South Africa’s Mobile Network Experience.

    In this episode, we're thrilled to sit down with Calvin Collett, Founder and CEO of Melon Mobile - Africa’s first truly digital telco, offering consumers a fully customisable mobile network experience. Founded in 2022, Melon is disrupting a sector that's long been controlled by a handful of industry incumbents, by combining digital eSim technology, a slick app-first proposition, hyper-customisation and unprecedented pricing - to create an exciting "do-it-yourself" mobile network experien...

    1h 9m

  3. 10/04/2024

    Lynton Peters (OneCart): Driving South Africa's On-Demand Delivery Sector.

    In this episode, we're excited to sit down with Lynton Peters, Founder and exited-CEO of OneCart - South Africa's premier online, on-demand delivery service - that lets customers shop across multiple stores, in a single order, with one delivery fee, arriving at their in under 60minutes.In 2023, South Africa’s e-commerce market generated an estimated R71bn in revenue, largely driven by sectors like clothing/apparel, entertainment/hobbies and electronics. Alongside growing demand for convention...

    1h 25m

  4. 09/26/2024

    Paul Kent (Adumo): Transforming South Africa's Payments Landscape.

    In this episode, we're thrilled to sit down with Paul Kent, Founder and CEO of adumo, the multi-channel payments platform that's helping businesses get paid, boost their customer engagement and keep employees motivated. The last two decades have seen a radical transformation in South Africa’s payments landscape, evolving from predominantly cash-heavy commerce to a world that's embracing digital infrastructure. The space is both diverse and dynamic, with a mix of traditional banking syste...

    1h 29m

  5. 08/13/2024

    Thomas Brennan & Sebastian Patel (Franc): Simplifying Investing For South Africans.

    In this episode, we're thrilled to sit down with Thomas Brennan and Sebastian Patel, Co-Founders of Franc, the simple and easy-to-use mobile app that let’s South Africans invest in leading cash and equity funds in just a few minutes - with no minimums, no paperwork and no fine print.Despite having a robust financial services market, South Africa's savings and investment culture remains relatively poor - largely because of high fees, cumbersome admin, subjective advice and minimal investment e...

    1h 27m

  6. 08/02/2024

    Thato Schermer (Zoie Health): Making Female Healthcare Accessible.

    In today's episode, we're excited to sit down with Thato Schermer, Co-Founder and CEO of Zoie Health, Africa's first holistic digital women's health & wellness platform, dedicated to making female healthcare more convenient, affordable and caring. Shocked at how costly and difficult it was to see a gynaecologist, get a prescription, then fill it at a pharmacy, the founders recognized a gap to improve access and affordability to female healthcare. Founded in 2020, the Zoie platfo...

    1h 6m

  7. 07/18/2024

    Alex Forsyth-Thompson (Float): Helping Consumers Buy Now and Pay Waaay Later, Responsibly.

    In this episode, we’re thrilled to sit down with Alex Forsyth-Thompson, Founder and CEO of Float, Africa's first card-linked instalment platform that's disrupting traditional BNPL and encouraging responsible spending, by letting shoppers split big-ticket payments over time using existing credit. Despite reaching an executive position at a leading financial services business in his late twenties - Alex took the leap into tech entrepreneurship after spotting the gap to offer BNPL in a way ...

    1 hr

  8. 07/12/2024

    Idan Jaan (Fundrr): Bridging South Africa's SME Funding Gap

    In this episode, we’re excited to sit down with Idan Jaan, Co-Founder and former CEO of Fundrr, the fintech platform using smart scoring to provide quick and easy business funding to SMEs around South Africa. In September 2017 - having experienced the funding struggle firsthand - co-founders and best friends, Idan Jaan and Jarred Noche, had the idea to build a platform to solve this important need for other small-medium businesses. After bootstrapping the business for 18 mont...

    1h 29m
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Hear the first-hand accounts of innovation, failure, resilience and success in building South Africa’s most exciting startups, scaleups and venture capital funds. 

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  • Creator
    STARTUP CLUB ZA®
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 The Startup Club Podcast
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