Birthday Party + Janine Basel (Akro Capital) FREE Event

Aug 7, 2019, 3:00 – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Cape Town

Amazon Web Services, Wembley Square 2, 134 Solan Rd, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Startup Grind Cape Town is celebrating 6 years of inspiring, educating and connecting entrepreneurs. We're celebrating the founders, side hustlers, founding teams, founder spouses, investors, ecosystem builders, sponsors, students and all the enablers! This year at our birthday we're featuring Janine Basel, the founder of Akro Capital. Don't miss the biggest fireside chat in the world!

In-person event

About this event

Startup Grind Cape Town is celebrating 6 years of inspiring, educating and connecting entrepreneurs. We're celebrating the founders, side hustlers, founding teams, founder spouses, investors, ecosystem builders, sponsors, students and all the enablers!

This year at our birthday we're featuring Janine Basel, the founder of Akro Capital. Akro Capital is a R100 million investment fund that Janine started after spending 16 years as a stay at home mum. Akro Capital also owns Akro co-working spaces and Akro Accelerator and has received investment from the R1.4 billion SA SME Fund. In addition to accelerating and funding startups across sectors and stages, Akro runs the Girl Boss Hustle initiative that supports female entrepreneurs. 

Once again we're expecting over 1,000 attendees. Don't miss the biggest fireside chat in the world! We will have food, drinks, DJs, photo booth, prizes and so much fun. Take some time out to celebrate your hustle, your grind, your successes and your hard lessons!

This event is FREE so get your tickets early as they will be sold out soon.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Janine Basel

    Akro Capital

    Founder

When

When

Wednesday, August 7, 2019
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

Food and Networking
Intro and Partner Messages
Fireside Chat
Networking and Party

Host

  • Sandras Phiri

    Pranary

    CEO

Organizer

  • Brian Mlambo

    Akha Ventures

    CEO & Founder

Global sponsors

Notion logo

Notion

Builder logo

Builder

Partners

Africa Trust Academy logo

Africa Trust Academy

Pine3 Marketing logo

Pine3 Marketing

SirFruit3 logo

SirFruit3

Ventureburn logo

Ventureburn

Work & Co logo

Work & Co

Silicon Cape logo

Silicon Cape

Lula logo

Lula

9 Series logo

9 Series

Zero1 Creations logo

Zero1 Creations

Zaio logo

Zaio

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