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The Startup Club Podcast

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18 episodes

9 months ago

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...

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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...

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Entrepreneurship

Episodes (18/18)

The Startup Club Podcast

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...

11 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 25 minutes

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 27 minutes

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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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 year ago

1 hour

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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...

1 year ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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Karidas Tshintsholo (Khula): Fixing Africa’s Agriculture Supply Chain

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Karidas Tshintsholo, CEO and Co-Founder of Khula!, the pioneering agritech startup dedicated to empowering smallholder farmers through access to markets and financing. Founded in 2016, the business now enables the trade of thousands of products from hundreds of local & international suppliers on its platform and is changing the face of the agri-supply chain for good. Khula is a graduate of the Google for Startups accelerator, a past winner o...

1 year ago

1 hour 30 minutes

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Saul Kornik (Kena Health): Solving South Africa’s Healthcare Crisis

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Saul Kornik, the visionary Founder and CEO of both Kena Health and Healthforce, the technology ventures solving the gap in the country’s health infrastructure by making affordable care accessible to hundreds of thousands of patients across South Africa. Both ventures have achieved significant traction, with Kena Health raising both $2m in venture capital and winning the MTN Business App of the Year award in 2023 - and Healthforce facilitating ov...

1 year ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Badi Sudhakaran (VALR): Building the Financial System of the Future

In this episode, we’re humbled to sit down with Badi Sudhakaran, the brilliant Co-Founder and CPO of Africa’s leading crypto exchange, VALR. Since its founding in 2018, VALR has grown to become the continent’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, processing more than $10bn from more than 500K customers. The company has also successfully raised more than $55m from leading investors and is now eyeing a new wave of growth through its expansion to the Middle East.We talk about:&nb...

1 year ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Kimberley Taylor (Loop): Solving South Africa's Logistics Inefficiencies

In this episode, we’re joined by Kimberley Taylor, Founder and CEO of LOOP, the trailblazing delivery management platform that’s empowering companies across the country to optimise and scale their logistics infrastructure. What started as a third-year university project in 2015, Loop has since grown to raise meaningful investment, built a team of 21 employees and is supporting big-name clients like Nandos and OneCart, evening helping your Checkers' Sixty60 driver arrive at your door. We talk ...

1 year ago

1 hour 12 minutes

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David Akinin (Jabu): Transforming Informal Retail in Africa

In this episode, we’re joined by David Akinin, Founder and CEO of JABU, one of the continent’s leading B2B commerce startups, solving last-mile distribution, payments and supply chains for informal retailers in Africa. Since its founding in 2020, JABU has expanded to multiple countries, grown a team of 70 and has raised more than $18m in capital. We talk about: David’s incredible life storyHow he was accidentally hired at GoogleHis journey of navigating tough decisionsHow and why he fell in l...

2 years ago

1 hour 38 minutes

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Thandeka Xaba (Digital Africa Ventures): The Journey of a Venture Capital Disruptor

In this episode, Mathew sits down with the formidable Thandeka Xaba, co-founder and Managing Partner at Digital Africa Ventures, one of South Africa’s first black, female-founded venture capital funds. This episode dives into:Thandeka’s upbringingNavigating entrepreneurshipThe power of networksThe realities of being a first-time fund managerHer passion for supporting underrepresented founders to make an impact on the continent-Connect with Thandeka on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tha...

2 years ago

54 minutes

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Ndabenhle Ngulube (Pineapple): The Journey of Revolutionising South African Insurance

In this episode, Mathew sits down with Ndabenhle “Nda” Ngulube, co-founder of Pineapple, the South African insuretech fast becoming a household-name through its pioneering product and highly memorable nationwide billboards campaign. Pineapple has attracted millions of dollars in early-stage venture and grant capital from notable investors, on it’s mission to become the country’s leading full-suite, digital insurance pioneer. In this episode, we talk about: Nda’s global upbringingDiscover...

2 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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Clive Butkow (Kalon Venture Partners): The Journey of an Acclaimed Venture Capitalist

In this episode, Mathew sits down with acclaimed venture capitalist, Clive Butkow - CEO and Founder of Kalon Venture Partners - to talk about his rise from modest beginnings to becoming COO of Accenture South Africa, before “retiring early” to spearhead one of the country’s most recognised VC firms.Kalon successfully raised its first fund in 2014 and has since deployed over R250m as an early investor in the likes of Ozow, FCB.AI, Mobiz, Sendmarc and Talk360 (among others). Clive now has ambit...

2 years ago

43 minutes

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Donald Valoyi (Zulzi): The Journey of a Last-Mile Delivery Pioneer

In this episode, Mathew Marsden is joined by Donald Valoyi - the self-taught developer turned tech founder - who rose from humble beginnings to pioneer one of South Africa’s leading, on-demand delivery startups, Zulzi. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Zulzi was doing over ~2000 orders (R1m) per day and has raised 10’s of millions in capital since inception, most notably from the Shoprite Group. With a fresh focus and passionate team of over 100, Zulzi’s on a mission to revolutionise th...

2 years ago

1 hour 21 minutes

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The Journey of Mitchan Adams (Ozow): From Music to Exited Tech Founder

In this episode, Mathew Marsden is joined by Mitchan Adams - the music producer turned developer, instrumental in co-founding (and exiting) one of South Africa's leading fintech startups, Ozow.By the time he left in 2021 - Ozow had raised a $48m Series B and was processing more than $100m/growing at 140K users per month.This episode dives into: Mitchan's early years and influential experiences that laid the groundwork for his entrepreneurial journey. Turning points that shifted his ...

2 years ago

1 hour 30 minutes