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| Mar 11, 2021 | SA foodtech UCOOK expands offering for locals | Cape Town-based foodtech company UCOOK has added baby food to its existing meal kit delivery service.
UCOOK now offers a new category of meal kit delivery
David Torr, CEO of UCOOK has provided some insight into what led to the creation of... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [23/06/2020] | President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa needs entrepreneurship and investment to recover from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has launched an initiative aimed at rescuing the res... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [23/06/2020] | President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa needs entrepreneurship and investment to recover from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has launched an initiative aimed at rescuing the re... |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [09/06/2020] | The Covid-19 pandemic is set to plunge the world into the worst recession since the Second World War, the World Bank announced yesterday.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has raised more than R1-million to fund food supplies to comm... |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [09/06/2020] | The Covid-19 pandemic is set to plunge the world into the worst recession since the Second World War, the World Bank announced yesterday.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has raised more than R1-million to fund food supplies to commu... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [17/04/2020] | The SA government has amended the country’s lockdown regulations to allow more businesses to operate during the lockdown.
This, while UCook CEO David Torr (pictured above) has announced the launch of a fund to feed as many South Africans i... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [17/04/2020] | The SA government has amended the country’s lockdown regulations to allow more businesses to operate during the lockdown.
This, while UCook CEO David Torr (pictured above) has announced the launch of a fund to feed as many South Africans in... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Uncertainty as grocery, food delivery startups say they’ll stay operating during lockdown | Food delivery companies that deliver food sourced from supermarkets or anywhere other than from restaurants say they will keep operating under South Africa’s 21-day lockdown, set to start at midnight today.
It comes as South Africa’s touris... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Uncertainty as grocery, food delivery startups say they’ll stay operating during lockdown | Food delivery companies that deliver food sourced from supermarkets or anywhere other than from restaurants say they will keep operating under South Africa’s 21-day lockdown, set to start at midnight today.
It comes as South Africa’s touri... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Silvertree racing to meet demand as online orders at startups spike amid coronavirus | Cape Town based investment company Silvertree Holdings is pressing suppliers to keep providing its stable of ecommerce startups with stock, amid a surge in ecommerce orders in the last two weeks following the onset of the coronavirus.
Comm... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Silvertree racing to meet demand as online orders at startups spike amid coronavirus | Cape Town based investment company Silvertree Holdings is pressing suppliers to keep providing its stable of ecommerce startups with stock, amid a surge in ecommerce orders in the last two weeks following the onset of the coronavirus.
Comme... |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Silvertree invests R5m in former OrderIn co-founder’s new dark kitchen business | Cape Town based investor Silvertree Holdings has invested R5-million in return for a majority stake in former OrderIn co-founder Heini Booysen’s new dark kitchens business.
Also known as a “ghost kitchen”, “virtual kitchen” or “cloud kitche... |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Silvertree invests R5m in former OrderIn co-founder’s new dark kitchen business | Cape Town based investor Silvertree Holdings has invested R5-million in return for a majority stake in former OrderIn co-founder Heini Booysen’s new dark kitchens business.
Also known as a “ghost kitchen”, “virtual kitchen” or “cloud kitch... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | Silvertree Holdings no longer just a tech investor after rebrand, new investment | The internet is not the only place to find good businesses to invest in, even for a tech investor, as Silvertree Holdings hopes to attest to.
The Cape Town based investment company — which has invested in a string of ecommerce companies sin... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | Silvertree Holdings no longer just a tech investor after rebrand, new investment | The internet is not the only place to find good businesses to invest in, even for a tech investor, as Silvertree Holdings hopes to attest to.
The Cape Town based investment company — which has invested in a string of ecommerce companies si... |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Are these six, SA’s most important venture capitalists? | Who would you turn to if you were a SA tech startup looking for venture capital (VC)?
South Africa’s VC sector has grown substantially in recent years, with over R1-billion invested in startups and early-stage companies in 2017, according ... |
| Aug 23, 2019 | Are these six, SA’s most important venture capitalists? | Who would you turn to if you were a SA tech startup looking for venture capital (VC)?
South Africa’s VC sector has grown substantially in recent years, with over R1-billion invested in startups and early-stage companies in 2017, according t... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Silvertree move to take majority stakes in startups nets mixed view from founders [Updated] | SA investment company Silvertree Internet Holdings is buying up companies left, right and centre — ahead of a planned listing in 2023 — relegating many of the founders to mere operators of the businesses they once founded. Not all are happy... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Silvertree move to take majority stakes in startups nets mixed view from founders [Updated] | SA investment company Silvertree Internet Holdings is buying up companies left, right and centre — ahead of a planned listing in 2023 — relegating many of the founders to mere operators of the businesses they once founded. Not all are happy... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | UCook, SA's largest meal kit provider, plans brick-and-mortar stores – and R80 million turnover soon | Friends Chris Verster Cohen David Torr who founded UCOOK in 2015 after they met in Thailand (Supplied)
Meal-kit delivery service UCook plans on opening brick-and-mortar stores by 2019.
The stores will sell ready-made meals, and condiments a... |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Three tech startups tapped for inaugural Savca Industry Awards | Three SA tech startups — fintech i-Pay, on demand cleaning platform SweepSouth, and meal delivery site Ucook — are among nine companies that have been shortlisted for the inaugura Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Associat... |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Three tech startups tapped for inaugural Savca Industry Awards | Three SA tech startups — fintech i-Pay, on demand cleaning platform SweepSouth, and meal delivery site Ucook — are among nine companies that have been shortlisted for the inaugura Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Associat... |
| Aug 2, 2018 | Is Silvertree’s co-entrepreneur model the answer to Silicon Valley? | What is a co-entrepreneur? A glorified manager or a true entrepreneur? For Silvertree Internet Holdings managing director and co-founder Manuel Koser a co-entrepreneur is any entrepreneur whose business the holding company buys out and then... |
| Aug 2, 2018 | Is Silvertree’s co-entrepreneur model the answer to Silicon Valley? | What is a co-entrepreneur? A glorified manager or a true entrepreneur? For Silvertree Internet Holdings managing director and co-founder Manuel Koser a co-entrepreneur is any entrepreneur whose business the holding company buys out and then... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Silicon Valley VC model doesn’t work in Africa, argues Silvertree Holdings man | The Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) model doesn’t work in Africa and other emerging markets, argues Manuel Koser, the managing director and co-founder of Silvertree Internet Holdings.
The funder likes to refer to itself as a “investment... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Silicon Valley VC model doesn’t work in Africa, argues Silvertree Holdings man | The Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) model doesn’t work in Africa and other emerging markets, argues Manuel Koser, the managing director and co-founder of Silvertree Internet Holdings.
The funder likes to refer to itself as a “investmen... |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Gutsy Green: SA startup to make cooking easy | Having to decide what you’re having for supper after a long day at work is an absolute pain. With the majority of people not being professional chefs, going through the hassle of choosing a nice restaurant and then gawking at the bill after... |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Gutsy Green: SA startup to make cooking easy | Having to decide what you’re having for supper after a long day at work is an absolute pain. With the majority of people not being professional chefs, going through the hassle of choosing a nice restaurant and then gawking at the bill after... |
