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  • Social dating site Zoosk finds perfect match with investors in $30m round 4 Dec 2009 18:34 GMT
    ... by newcomer Bessemer Venture Partners, the oldest venture capital practice in the US, with existing investors Canaan ... UK, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Mexico and South Africa. Singles join the site by adding the ...

  • CSIR teams up with US company to create rabies antibody from plants 4 Dec 2009 14:45 GMT
    ... academic and industrial institutions in Europe and South Africa aiming to develop plant platforms for immunotherapeutic ... organisation with technology transfer and will train South African researchers in the art of purifying antibodies from ...

  • A Democratic primary primer 4 Dec 2009 06:18 GMT
    ... a new kind of senator - a venture capitalist vowing to clear the D.C. deadwood as ... whom he joined on humanitarian missions to South Africa - Khazei cares about people and wants ... job “streamlining” encouraged in some firms his venture capital firm bought. ...

  • CSIR teams up with US company '©to create rabies antibody from plants 3 Dec 2009 23:12 GMT
    ... academic and industrial institutions in Europe and South Africa aiming to develop plant platforms for immunotherapeutic ... organisation with technology transfer and will train South African researchers in the art of purifying antibodies from ...

  • Zoosk Secures $30 Million in Series D Funding 3 Dec 2009 16:32 GMT
    ... new investor Bessemer Venture Partners, the oldest venture capital firm in the United States. Existing investors Canaan ... United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and many more. Zoosk is based in ...

  • Anglo American appoints Godfrey Gomwe as Executive Director of Anglo American South Africa 1 Dec 2009 21:46 GMT
    ... Gomwe as Executive Director of Anglo American South Africa Anglo American plc is pleased to announce ... developed network of contacts within the current South African administration. He also has a depth of ... Kenya and Ghana). * Ten years of venture capital experience, gained as Chairman of Takura Ventures, ...

  • Dr Johann Rupert new Stellenbosch University Chancellor 30 Nov 2009 23:23 GMT
    ... vacated by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert Distinguished South African business leader and entrepreneur par excellence, Dr ... York for five years, before returning to South Africa in 1979. During that year, he founded ... goods company Richemont, followed in 2000 by venture capital companies Remgro and Venfin. He also took ...

  • Reportlinker Adds Mobile Advertising and Marketing - 3rd Edition 30 Nov 2009 14:40 GMT
    ... enabling mobile advertising are still relatively small, venture capital funded actors. Many larger players are taking a ... 4.5 Case studies ...........................78 4.5.1 Vodacom in South Africa launches mobile portal for rugby fans .......................78 ...

  • Promising start for business start-up index 30 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... “Some of the ‘start-ups’ are obviously questionable (because they are ... supporting the WBS venture, as is the South African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Once the Sasi’s ...

  • Rothschild appointed to help sell Dubai World assets 28 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... Rothschild appointed to help sell Dubai World assets Bankers ... which owns the Turnberry Hotel. Dubai World's venture capital arm, Istithmar, owns stakes in global assets ... York department store; Cirque du Soleil, the South African entrepreneur Sol Kerzner's hotel chain; and Standard ...

  • Dubai may sell QE2 to tackle debt crisis 27 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... is supposed to be heading off for South Africa so that visitors can look round during ... the Turnberry Hotel. Istithmar World, Dubai World's venture capital arm, has stakes in Barneys, the New ... York department store, Cirque du Soleil, the South African entrepreneur Sol Kerzner's hotel chain, and Standard ...

  • Dubai World to face assets review 27 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A ... two hotel chains. The Telegraph said the venture capital arm of Dubai World holds stakes in ... Chartered Bank, a hotel chain owned by South African entrepreneur Sol Kerzner and the New York ...

  • TMT slot: Naspers interim results. Koos Bekker ' CEO, Naspers 26 Nov 2009 20:54 GMT
    ... price. So lots of markets outside of South Africa are actually bouncing back. This market will probably ... there, into Kazakhstan. And psychologically I think South Africans underestimate how flexible we've become. We are ... sell, maybe not." The next one, a venture capital fund, will walk in and say: "Give ...

  • SA rated for venture capital 26 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
    ... & Young about South Africa’s attractiveness to venture capital and private equity where in a field ... and private equity out of 66 countries South Africa was rated fairly low at 43. Graham, ... years Heather D'Alton: What if we had South African policy-makers watching? What would you tell them ...

  • Give angel investors tax relief to plug fund gap of start-ups 26 Nov 2009 03:50 GMT
    ... the private sector, according to Competition in South African Banking, a task group report for the ... This may either take the form of venture capital or may be provided by so-called "angel" ... start-up companies. The venture capital industry in South Africa may best be described as "nascent" as ...


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