Johannesburg Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Johannesburg.
Jordan Wainer
Investor
Commercial Real Estate professional. Entrepreneur and investor at heart, founder of Diamond Head Properties and always interested in innovative opportunities
http://www.jordanwainer.com
Raymond Buckle
CEO SilverstoneCIS & Chairman MMA South Africa at Mobile Marketing Association. MMA Global Award winning mobile marketing and communications platform.
Charles Lorenceau
Investor
Partner @ace-company-1
Co-Founder @botan Co-Founder @youfoot. Co-Founder @inca Energy
MBA @insead-1 , BA @babson-college College.
Jonathan Hurwitz
Investor
Jonick Investments cc venture fund.
Alen Ribic
Cofounder and CTO at SweepSouth. Cofounded Eldo Software, an energy management solution provider. Served a technical advisory role to South African Government.
http://alenribic.com
Joseph Ajao
Founder @Oacsoft Technologies • Worked at @google, @goldman-sachs • Studied at @obafemi-awolowo-university
Qn. Everlena Brown
Media Mogul behind #QEBLLC @QEBVLogTV #PublishingQEB #QEBStudios & #QEBFoundation. NEWS TIPS #4045329232
Yossi Mlynsky
Investor
Founder @alt-tab-mobile • Helping Startups Build Awesome Mobile Products. Growing fast and looking for Advisors & Biz Dev. Worked @macquarie-bank @ninemsn
http://www.alttabmobile.com/blog
Ismail Dhorat
Investor
Building great stuff on the interwebs, lover of denim and movies.
http://blog.codiez.co.za
Trevor Wolfe
Managing Director for @springleap Africa and Middle East. Previously at Moveline, Gerson Lehrman Group and WPP. Active adviser to ad-tech, bio-tech, and media startups.
Bernard Seeff
Investor
International Chair of World Presidents Organization. Ex CEO of metals fabrication company. Extensive international travel. MSc(Eng), MBA, Dipl Comp Sc.
Nikolay Piriankov
Co-founder of Rare Pink and UniPreneur • Studied at @university-of-manchester
http://nikolaysblog.com
Bukola J
Serial social entrepreneur. Led a couple of start-ups in Africa. International strategic and legal background. Worked at various MDBs and IFIs. Columbia Law, MIT SM in Policy and Nuclear Engr, and Berkeley Engr Grad.
Petri Saarinen
Investor
Business Development
James Felton Keith
Founder @quigit, Mayor Apointee @CityOfDetroit, 15yr Tech Veteran. Fmr Faculty @MSU, Published Author.
http://integrationalism.com
Elaine Huang Crawford
CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard
Florian Aigrain
President at FPXA Holdings AG, a relationship finance firm. Florian started his career at Goldman Sachs. He has worked in the US, Europe, and South Africa.
Jono Millin
Founder @dronedeploy, AdvertEyes, Zoom2Work. MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning PhD @university-of-edinburgh-1 Worked @BSG.
Dino Covotsos
Investor
Founder of Telspace Systems, an information security company with offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Interested in investing in tech startups.
Mohamed Nanabhay
Investor
Head of Online at @al-jazeera-english. Started Al Jazeera New Media group. Founded largest consumer internet site in Qatar. Also, studied at Cambridge and WITS.
http://www.mohamedn.com
Mark Karimov
Founder @trevolta
Dov Tenenboim
Investor
Hacker, Developer and Strategist.
Asim Janjua
Advisor @markhor
http://www.asimjanjua.com
Adam Lewis
Investor
I founded IntroBridge in 2009, and sold it in 2011. I was an investor in and CEO of Pythio
Jonathan Bailey
I'm a psychologist turned games developer, turned games tool developer.
Thapelo Radebe (TpRadebe)
Thapelo Radebe (tpradebe) CEO of KTRlabs, Studied at Wits University and worked at SDKLAB and Jetweb
Graham Holtshausen
Founder, Co-Owner & Creative lead of Freedom Studios, Senior Web Designer at Wits University,
http://www.freedomstudios.co.za/blog
Christopher Wilson-Byrne
Harvard MBA with a background in science; experienced in sales, strategy and program management; I'm an executor looking for a visionary
Marc Elias
Investor
MD Startupbootcamp SA
Erik Saether
Chartered accountant. Financial manager for 9 years. Now business owner of AeroSpace Research and Strategic Accounting. Enjoy scuba & rocketry. International Space University alumni.
James West
About to revolutionize education... follow me to join the ride
Morgan
Investor
Studied at @university-of-witwatersrand
Linda Maepa
Abraham Choi
Investor
Reza Handley-Namavar
President of Dream Mobile, lives in Cape Town, graduated from @georgetown-university University
Houston Muzamhindo
Founder @iqmates
Richard Weeden
Architect & CEO of @mydorpie. Background in retail advertising. Run successful businesses in tech, hospitality & travel. Lived in London, San Francisco & Sydney.
Arjun Sinha
Currently Regional Sales Manager @PoleToWinIntl | Love for Tech, Innovation & Fitness|
Bree Johnson
I'm a great communicator, a strong writer, I love working with people, and most importantly- I HUSTLE!
Clinton D. Mutambo
Founder Esaja.com OEM startup in high school, Marketing Agency after school, Youngest member in national branding taskforce, marketing for FMCG clients.
Thabang Mashiloane
Investor
Founder @geomall, @crowdtwitch • Worked at @avatar • Investor @geomall • Studied at @london-business-school, @heriot-watt-university
Mike Sharman
Co-founder of Webfluential: a platform that establishes relationships between consumers and brands through influencers; co-founder of Retroviral content/seeding
http://sharmanator.com
Eulinda Smith
Eulinda Smith, Occupational Social Worker (M.A.)
Nazmeera Hoosain
Former life: attorney at a top level commercial law firm. Current life: an A student at all educational levels with a passion for English and being of service.
Rory Moore
CEO Innovation Agency • Driving innovation in a connected world • Worked at @royal-bank-of-scotland, @firstrand-bank • Studied at @university-of-cape-town
Jacques Struwig
Investor
Founder Neutral Gravity
Neo Valentine Hutiri
The world is round, stuff happens. Live to love, enjoy, get challenged, learn, have fun and experience great music. Engineer by title an entrepreneur by choice
Aruna Rathugamage
Solutions Architect. Entrepreneur. Strong IT solutions development background in self service banking and electronic payments. UNISA MBL 2009
Andreas Ernst
Worked at @holcim, @swissport • Studied at @zurich-university-of-applied-sciences-zhaw
Jude Okello
Co-Founder and CTO of @jooist
Pierre Van Den Berg
MSc CompSci (RAU, ZA). Strong Enterprise Systems Integration / High Volume Transaction Processing experience.
Brendon Myers
Entrepreneur looking for a broad role, in which, to help drive growth within a business.
Jay van Zyl
CEO of Innovation Cafe and experienced entrepreneur. PhD in innovation. Latest book, Built to Thrive, using innovation to make your mark in the connected world
Maxine Rockett
Founder at Mimaxa and Maximised Methods • Worked at @ibm, @investec-bank • Entrepreneur
Karen Elowitt
Jared Muloongo
International Relations Graduate with Business experience in Start ups and Market reseach
http://www.koreabusinesscentral.com/forum/topics/a-map-to-a-career-in-korea-by-jared-muloongo
Selaelo Morukhuladi
Founder Moruks Holdings Pty(Ltd) • Studied at @university-of-witwatersrand
Alessia Mondlane
Associate Community Manager @wework Seaport - Northeastern University, B.S. in Human Services - Startup Institute Boston, Technical Marketing Track
Avile Maja
Business student (triple major in Politics Philosophy & Economics) at University Of The Witwatersrand; Founder of Ciel; Strong business mind
Greg de Chasteauneuf
Fellow Geek
Graeme Pyle
Founded Cramers Coffee (sold), Adaptix, Bananaseed.com. GIBS MBA, @university-of-pretoria CS
Daniel Charvat
Strategy at Innovation Cafe. MA from Tsinghua University, China. Worked on social innovation theory with Jay van Zyl on Built to Thrive.
Herman Tulleken
http://code-spot.co.za
Sean O' Reilly
Studied at @university-of-johannesburg
Shingai Mhendurwa
Your Financial Partner Throughout
Iain McConnon
Co Founder @boxpay in 2011 Global mobile payments, Co Founder @global-billing-solutions in 2002, Co Founder @moviestar-ie, (DVD by mail) sold in 2009.
http://payment.boxpay.com/blog/
Derick Potgieter
Senior Technologist, working in financial industry. Launched 2 startups
Andre Brown™
BA in Advertising & Marketing Communications from Bournemouth. CEO of Social Tag. Strong marketing and advertising background. Brand and Social Network Planner
David Philip
Business owner. Versatile PHP developer with 8 years experience specialising in cakePHP and jQuery
Karen Regina Moya
To secure a challenging position in a corporate organisation where I can utilize my Management,Organisational,Leadership,Customer Service Administrative skills
Marna-leeze Schlebusch
I am responsible for defining, prioritizing, planning and driving the execution of the vision for InnovationCafe.
Ruan van der Walt
Senior PHP Software Developer at @notafy
Mxolisi Lubisi
Mathematical Science graduate with a passion for technology and an aspiring Data Scientist
Andrea Golding
Nsovo Shimange
Online Marketer | Web Content Manager | Rugby Player | Blogger | SEO Freelancer
Ryan White
Transitioned from solving mechanical to digital problems before 2000. Multiple advertising industry award winner, robust insurance and startup engineer.
Jack Shimosa
Internet Engineer. Studied BSc Hons in Business IT at UoG. Worked at SA's leading banks FNB and Nedbank.
Greg Jarrett
CEO Bitcoin Superfund, serial entrepreneur, lean startup and agile fan. Digital, mobile, technology and product expert. Bitcoin Believer.
http://mobile-bootcamp.com/
Mariza Osorio
Organiser. Troubleshooter. LLB Law Student. Entrepreneur. Passionate about people. Passionate about Life. Sometimes called a Geek. Managing Director of Osorio & Partners.
Mlondi Maziya
Josue T. Waffo
African born /European educated entrepreneur, 17 years experience in banking. Masters in Civil Engineering, alumnus of the Citibank School of Banking London.
Pol Osei
CS Sophomre at Wits; First startup (Digest) built in high school. Strong Development/Programming background. Top 6 CHPC National HPC competition.
Jennifer Thompson
Accounts Manager
Taolo Modisi
Founder dialmedirect & Ghost• Strong Investment Banking Background. Former regional head Standard Bank
Motse Lehata
Developer at Standard Bank Group, veteran code jammer, strong business and analytical skills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HXYUVQOdk
Petar Soldo
Investor
Ex Consultant turned entrepreneur. Looking at backing high potential entrepreneurs and businesses.
Elandre Franck
Patrick Sloan
Young but experienced, looking for a new challenge and open to new ventures and ideas.
Jonathan kabuya
I’m highly creative Web Designer & Developer. I have worked with various business sectors therefore I understand the similarities and differences of businesses.
http://blog.jonathankabuya.me
Paul Cook
Investor
http://t.co/41guGXcj
Shawn Lukas
Creator of Garden Avenue | Co-founder boxworM
Michael Rockett
Founder @foundry-business-solutions, a creative South African business solutions firm. Graduated at Jeppe Boys in 2009.
Ulrich Dorfling
Investor
Easy going, looking for typical long term investments.
Samukele Belle
Designer & Illustrator but don't call me a 'Creative', I hate the term.
Peter T Paradza
Hannes Schutte
Investor
Busy...
Wesley Hann
Worked on Samsung Projects, Developed sites for some of the largest companies in South Africa
Frans-Carel Steyn
Appcelerator Titanium and Delphi Developer with a variety of background and experience. Able to slot into most position in the SDLC. An asset to you!
Claudia Edelstein
Ahmed Bulbulia
Ross Heubner
Preshan Ramoorthy
Investor
Senior IT executive at leading bank in south africa. Have over 15 years of experience in technology, aswell as entrepreneur.
Ernest Matthewson
Investor
Entrepreneur, Independent Investment Banker, Chairman & Director of Companies, Business Consultant
Osei-Appiah William
Clive Butkow
Investor
Non executive director of a venture capital company in South Africa
Abayomi Okemakinde
Ian Waddams
Brian Stark
Founder QD Webs • Worked at @deloitte-touche, @standard-bank
Biodun Savar Dabiri
Jordyn Lee Paul Murcia
Keke Lebaka
Family First! Husband, Father, Social Media Strategist & Entrepreneur. @SocialAudit @ZASocialMedia @BorrowedAxe
Mystro Ttz
CEO of dainty, a fashion brand that i'm starting up!
Elwyn Dhliwayo
Founder Start Up Smart
Emma Mer
Esther Louw
Social media and Direct Marketing. Product Manager at Fleet Street Publications. Graphic Designer & Publisher. Professional Googleologist.
Jide Oni-Olusola
I just play the hand I'm dealt. Nigerian living in South Africa (Such Fun...NOT!!!). Die Hard GÖÖnner For Life.
Tony Parkin
Gerrit van Huyssteen
Web application and game developer
Ethan DivaBwoi Ntuli
Charles Young
Investor
Currently work for Investec Bank where I have been in the credit trading and investment for more than 10yrs. Personally invest in a variety of oppotrunities.
CapoDeepTainment
CEO and Fouder of CapoDeoopTainment.I am a DeepHouse,Commercial House,Hip Hop and most loved Elektro Music DJ.I make people dance and chill with the best music produced all over the world.
Norman Ives
Brendon Neuhaus
Doug Hoseck
Internet alchemist
http://internetupstart.com
Lawrence
social media advocate for public and private sector. I tweet on social media, e-commerce and business.
Smart Prac
Wayne Diamond
Erol Kavas
Business Developer, Project Manager, Developer, Admin, Ubuntu Fan, Mac User, Explorer
http://www.erolkavas.com
Stompie Haasbroek
Olefile Matlala
Jurgens du Toit
DevOps problem solver with experience in both the Technical and Business side of things.
http://jrgns.net
Zephaniah Chiyangwa
Theunis Van Niekerk
Software Development Manager of Newsclip Media Monitoring. BSC in Informatics, strong management skills.
Twaambo Haamucenje
Founder of @rolodecks.
Ebenezer Annan
Student. Tech Enthusiast.
Jarred Myers
Bhekokwakhe
Don Mahon
Investor
Lawyer @maisels-group.
Billy Spamer
Entrepreneur. Tech enthusiast. Music lover
Marc Cline
Strategy Consultant to Music Industry stakeholders, including Major Labels & Startups
Christopher Clark
Co-Founder of TV Republic. South African-born IT entrepreneur/ General optimist / All-round nice guy. Changing South Africa one business at a time.
Victor Miclovich
Co-ounder PowerYoShop • Worked at @ushahidi, @unicef
Werner Barkhuizen, Ph.D.
Investor
Tapiwa Sibanda
Val Ezeani
Entrprenuer, Co-founder RadioVybe.com