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Nadia Oshry Senior Manager: Moonshots
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STANDARD BANK BUSINESS DAY TV SME SUMMIT Nadia Oshry Senior Manager: Moonshots REDUCING POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT Is becoming increasingly difficult in our current economic climate GDP growth remains low and flat South African Unemployment
Nadia Oshry Senior Manager: Moonshots
Is becoming increasingly difficult in our current economic climate
South African Unemployment rate
SOURCE: TRADINGECONOMICS.COM | STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 20 22 24 26 28
GDP growth remains low and flat
2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
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SOURCE: TRADINGECONOMICS.COM | STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICAThat small business growth is key, but the funding landscape is a mixed bag…
Study of SMEs (2017):
…and skills, market access remain major challenges
FINFIND SME STUDY; VENTURE CAPITAL RESEARCH
2015 2016 2017 2018
Funding Amount Deal Count
125 153 201 458
185 Mn 129 Mn 203 Mn 725.6 Mn
Venture capital investments in Africa
With an interesting subtitle
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How Uber’s first self-driving car works
GROWING COMPANIES HAVE A CONFLICT BETWEEN EFFICIENCY & EMPLOYMENT
In SA, we focus heavily on supplier development
FINEXTRA BASED ON 2016 DATA
20% 20% 10% 7% 43%
Launched
subsidiaries Acquired FinTech companies Set up venture funds to fund FinTech companies Startup programs to incubate FinTech companies Partnering with FinTech companies
We need to invent new business models which align the incentives of corporates and start ups in order to help SMEs grow so that we drive growth and create jobs
Founders Factory UK raised £50M to build over 225 innovative technology companies
AI
Beauty Media Travel EdTech Retail FinTech AI
Team of 70
Accelerator +160 startups Incubator +60 startups
FOUNDERS FACTORY AFRICA
Scale 140 disruptive tech businesses over 5 years in Africa and enhance the start up culture in key African cities
4 Corporate investors Full time team of 40 specialists Scale 140 businesses over 5 years
Investor 1 Investor 2 Investor 3
40 100
UX/UI, Product Development, Engineering, Investment, Growth Marketing
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Founders Factory is but one example…with a change in mind set and through innovative new business models, large corporates can contribute to scaling start ups resulting in growth and job creation