Startups
Every young South African business radio talked about this month: founders interviewed about what they built, new brands, first funding rounds. Hear them tell it in their own words.
128 businesses · 101 founders on air · 6 stations · last 30 days
Food & drink · Franschhoek
Serves a full Asian tasting menu and a lighter à la carte menu, with house-made ingredients.
Founded by Ryan Schell
Food & drink
Bakes and sells baked goods, run by a former government worker
Founded by Zizi Matakiti
Food & drink
Winery run by young co-founders, making and selling wine
Founded by Ratabila Khatlani
Food & drink
Makes a low-calorie sparkling hard seltzer for South African drinkers
Founded by Michael Tone
Food & drink · Cape Town
Sells matcha tea and runs matcha stores in Cape Town
Founded by Michaela McClain
Food & drink · Soweto
Manufactures and sells fruit-based beverages supplied to retail stores
Founded by Lungiello Lawrence Mugaka, Patrick Torke and Lungie Lumbaga
Funding: Started with R800 from the founders' savings
Food & drink
Makes wine, and is developing a non-alcoholic wine, and is already exporting
Food & drink
Makes wines with colourful African-inspired labels, including five wines, two of them lifestyle wines priced to be affordable.
Food & drink
Supplies bakery products to coffee shops, restaurants and hotels
Founded by Frank Low
Food & drink
Makes and sells wine, with a focus on African wine identity and experience
Founded by Ritabilia Khaikane
Food & drink
Sells premium bottled fine water, selected for its mineral content and taste.
Founded by Nico Peterser
Food & drink
Sells matcha and wellness products, with pop-ups and retail spaces planned.
Founded by Twenga Bopi and Tuenga Bobi
Food & drink
Hole-in-the-wall bakery in Wendywood serving baked goods and treats
Food & drink
Runs a small hole-in-the-wall shop selling cupcakes and other treats, and a cupcake ATM.
Food & drink
Small baking outfit selling baked goods, operating mainly on weekends from a small shop
Food & drink
Makes slow-fermented bread with quality ingredients and supplies Cape Town restaurants and cafes
Founded by David Donder
Food & drink
Sells burgers and quarters to customers who place orders for collection or delivery
Food & drink · Ulundi · since 2018
Raises goats and supplies goat meat to retailers, hotels, restaurants, butcheries and an export buyer in Dubai
Founded by Len Kosi Mbata and Bata
Food & drink
Promotes and sells indigenous fruits and vegetables, such as mashlala and makwakwa, and related snacks
Food & drink
Sells coffee; a brand built on core values, growing from its founder's entrepreneurial journey
Food & drink
Makes artisan cheese, with milk collected fresh from its own farm herd
Food & drink
Runs mobile coffee trailers and permanent cafes serving coffee
Founded by Skye Williams
Food & drink
Private chef service and culinary brand cooking meals for paying clients
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Young businesses talked about on South African radio, found hourly in our transcripts. A website is linked only once we've checked it's theirs. What's said about a business is the speakers' view, not locl's.
Updated Monday, 02 November at 16:38 SAST.