2025 Guide: A Framework for Navigating and Applying Disruptive Innovation in Africa: Spotting Venture Opportunities

Africa Disruptive Innovation Guide – 2025 2025 Guide: A Framework for Navigating and Applying Disruptive Innovation in Africa: Spotting Venture Opportunities Download the PDF here. Last Update: 30 September 2025 Published: 30 September 2025 Authorship Authored by: Tiisetso Maloma and Startup Picnic Venture Studio

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Call for Contributors: Book on the Future of Venture Funding in Emerging Markets

Startup Picnic Venture Studio, in partnership with our associated company Bula Buka Publishers, which I founded over 10 years ago, we are launching a collaborative project to compile a book tentatively titled “Future of Venture Funding in Emerging Markets.” This is a call for contributors to be part of this important publication, which is planned…

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Startup Picnic Evolves Into Africa-Focused Venture Studio to Build Scalable Intellectual Property and Publishing Ecosystem

Johannesburg, South Africa – [1 September 2025] – Startup Picnic, a platform that began in 2014 as an informal networking event for entrepreneurs and investors, has officially evolved into Startup Picnic Venture Studio (SPVS), a South African–based, Africa-focused venture studio dedicated to building scalable businesses rooted in publishing, intellectual property (IP), and technology. What started…

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Introducing ‘Startup Picnic Academy’ – Rapid Short Courses for Earning A Living and Innovating

Greetings I hope you are well. I wish you a prosperous 2023. Announcing our rapid skills development school: Startup Picnic Academy (www.startuppicnicacademy.co.za).

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Come network with entrepreneurs at STARTUP PICNIC JHB this Saturday 25 September 2021

Join us this Saturday – 25 September 2021 – for another leg of Startup Picnic. This time we are in Midrand, Gauteng.

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Press Release: Startup Picnic in Jane Furse on 26 October 2019 – The Ultimate Fun Event for Entrepreneurs Comes to Ga Sekhukhene

STARTUP PICNIC hits Ga Sekhukhune in Limpopo on the 26th of October 2019, at Zai Oat Hotel in Jane Furse. Sekhukhune is buzzing with entrepreneurial activity. Startup Picnic is excited to attract a business savvy crowd to #startuppicnicSekhukhune. Mix and have fun with a rich crowd of people: Come network, relax, shop at the stalls,…

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