13.11.2009| Who wins the velociti enterprise development programme
Lightspeed
22.09.2009| Nurture your small IT business in an Incubator Programme
Biz assist
The incubators we are currently busy with is with a company that develops software to address the problem of absenteeism in companies.
16.09.2009| Venture Funders awaken
Fin24.com
There had been noticeable increase in activity in the sector.
16.09.2009| Cape the best for tech
Fin24.com
Venture capital market is finally starting to mature. In fact, more successes with incubators such as those run by Allon Raiz at Raizcorp, Bandwidth Barn and Biotech Bics.
21.08.09| How Fundamo became the world’s no.1 mobile financial services provider
Cape Venture Partners team introduced a very special guest, at the last session of the entrepreneurial mentorship initiative, the MyMentor programme.
17.09.2009| Another programme delivered by Cape Venture Partners
Bandwidth Barn Newsletter, September 2009 issue
CVP's David Murray in an interview on Talk Radio 702
Talking about available funds from Hasso Plattner Venture
29.04.09| Cape Venture Partners: The Cavalry Has Arrived
Entrepreneur Magazine
A team passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed provides a much-needed service to technology SMBs.
Nurturing New Techies
Cape Business News
CAPE TOWN’s business incubator, the Bandwidth Barn, has launched a programme which is geared to support IT entrepreneurs throughout the early stages of their business development.
Interview with David Murray from CVP on Talk Radio 702 Business
What is happening in the world of Venture Capital?
13.01.09| Venture capital still on tap
Fin24.com
While entrepreneurs are struggling to get loans from banks, venture capital (VC) players are still assessing opportunities.
28.10.08| Future IT industry leaders show growth
IT-Online
All the blood, sweat and tears that went into the making and developing of 12 ICT businesses in the Western Cape paid off when the Cape IT Initiative (CITI) graduated the companies from their business development programme, VeloCITI, last week.
24.10.08| Cape IT firms accelerate revenue
ITWeb
The 12 companies that graduated yesterday from the Cape IT Initiative's VeloCITI business acceleration programme saw more than six-fold increases in their cumulative monthly revenue and salaries during the seven-month programme.
14.07.08| CVP's Tony Mallam in a Panel Discussion with CNBC Africa talking about Venture Capital and Risk
14.02.08| CVP Role in the Establishment of Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa
Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa (HPVA) is an early stage venture fund for technology businesses in Africa.
May 2006| Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Cape Business News
THE venture capital market in the Western Cape is fraught with difficulty. Unfortunately venture capital in these parts has a bit of a legacy. courtesy some rather dodgy operators who, especially in the late nineties, got investors in a froth about an array of far fetched projects. Take a bow Prestige Ventures and several others.
11.03.08| Cape entrepreneurs have still got it
IOL
It was extremely difficult to turn away six young ICT entrepreneurs from this year's VeloCITI programme due to the high calibre of companies vying for the 15 spots on the programme.
13.03.08| Keen rivalry for spots at Cape IT incubator
By Thabiso Mochiko, Business Report
Johannesburg - Competition for spots at this year's information technology (IT) business development programme was so tough that the organisers had to turn away six entrepreneurs who applied.
23.11.07| Learning from failure By:
Vivian Warby
Failure could be used as one of the biggest learning experiences in an entrepreneur's life, yet in South Africa it is harshly punished, says David Murray of Cape Venture Partners. According to Murrary, 95% of entrepreneurs putting a new idea out there will fail, but that many of those 95% will go on to eventually launch a successful product.
26.11.07| Venture Capital: The lies people tell
Posted by Matthew Buckland
Got this from a presentation by David Murray of Cape Venture Partners, a Venture Capital fund which has invested in quite a few successful businesses. Was alerted by a comment about 10 seconds after I posted this (literally) that it was originally adapted from Guy Kawasaki, here and here.
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