Endeavor Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur: Handri Conradie
Company: @Source
Industry: Dried Fruit
Website: N/A
Year Selected: 2007

Handri Conradi grew up in the Ceres farming community in the Western Cape. Handri grew tired of just being a farmer on his family farm.  While looking for ways to add value to the farm business,
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Entrepreneur: Dumi Gumbi
Company: Anamazing
Industry: Film & Animation
Website:
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Entrepreneur: Isabelle Rorke
Company: Anamazing
Industry: Film & Animation
Website:
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Isabelle Rorke and Dumi Gumbi co-founded Anamazing Workshop Pty Ltd in 2004 – the only 100% black-owned African animation production company in South Africa.
 
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Entrepreneur: Nuno Pires
Company: Altis Biologics
Industry: Biotechnology
Website: www.altisbiologics.com
Year Selected: 2008
Entrepreneur: Nic Duneas
Company: Altis Biologics
Industry: Biotechnology
Website: www.altisbiologics.com
Year Selected: 2008

Altis Biologics has pioneered a disruptive technology for the orthopedic industry, and is well on its way to launching the world’s first multiple growth factor bone graft substitute derived from porcine (pig) tissue.
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Entrepreneur: Christopher Whitfield
Company: Batswadi
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Website: www.batswadi.com
Year Selected: 2007

Christopher founded Batswadi Pharmaceuticals in October 2005 as a specialist healthcare company focusing on four core business areas: pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research and development,
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Entrepreneur: Candice Roberts
Company: CallForce Direct
Industry: Call Centre & HR Management
Website: www.callforcedirect.co.za
Year Selected: 2005


Candice found an innovative way to create employment at a new level in South Africa, a country scarred by a 30-40% unemployment rate. CallForce Direct aims to be the leading,
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Entrepreneur: Cheryl Nesbitt
Company: Capsicum Culinary Studio
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Website: www.capsicumcooking.co.za
Year Selected: 2006

Founded in October 2003, Capsicum has quickly grown into one of the leading culinary education companies in South Africa.
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Entrepreneur: Richard Dewing
Company: Cibecs
Industry: Technology – Data backup
Website: www.cibecs.com
Year Selected: 2010

Can you rely on your employees to backup critical data from their desktop and notebook? Sixty to 80% of company data resides on desktops and notebooks rather than on servers.
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Entrepreneur: Aviad Eyal
Company: Cura Software Solutions
Industry: ICT (Software/Technology)
Website: http://www.curarisk.com/
Year Selected: 2005

Aviad Eyal, is a successful entrepreneur who has built a string of successful businesses. Amongst these is, Cura Risk, which is a company that provides smart software solutions for businesses.
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Entrepreneur: Elton Bondi & Andreas Cambtisis
Company: Cyest
Industry: Information Technology
Website: www.cyestcorp.com
Year Selected: 2006

Cyest Corporation is a South African based information technology and business advisory firm that specialises in the design, development and implementation of advanced decision support, business intelligence and enterprise resource management software solutions.
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Entrepreneur: Greg Starke
Company: DISA Vascular
Industry: Medical Technology
Website: www.disavascular.com
Year Selected: 2008

In 1999, South African biomedical engineer Greg Starke (40) and co-founder Damian Conway launched DISA Vascular (DISA is both an acronym for “Developed In South Africa,” and the name of a rare, beautiful flower in the Western Cape) and set about applying their computational modeling and knowledge of implants to design and build a better coronary stent. 
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Entrepreneur: Kerryne Neufeldt
Company: Eye Slices
Industry: Cosmetics
Website: www.eyeslices.com

Year Selected:

2008

Kerryne Krause-Neufeldt, a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation, technology, brand building and globalisation, started her career studying a B.Comm Honours degree at Pretoria University. Her first business at the age of 23 started as an importer and distributor of a technology-based cosmetic product range through the professional industry in South Africa. This experience led Kerryne to stumble upon a gap in the global market and venture out to develop and create her own product innovation for export. With a global license for a unique polymer technology from the CSIR only developed to laboratory scale, Kerryne began the Applied Research & Development for her new product idea in 1999. After 7 years of research, prototyping, product & manufacturing development, the product eyeSlices® was eventually launched into the South African market in September 2006. The company is now exporting to 12 other countries including the USA, Middle East, Asia & Europe. 
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Entrepreneur: Glen Ansell
Company: i5
Industry: IT Business Solutions
Website: www.i5.co.za
Year Selected: 2007

Glen Ansell, founder of Insignia 5 Technology (“i5”), is a young entrepreneur who is determined to succeed in the IT sector. Glen founded i5 in April 2004. Within its first year, i5 was accredited as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - the highest certification a partner can achieve from Microsoft. 
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Entrepreneur: DJ Kumbula
Company: InnoVent
Industry: Rental and Asset Management
Website: http://www.innovent.co.za/
Year Selected: 2009
Entrepreneur: Zakhe Khuzwayo
Company: InnoVent
Industry: Rental and Asset Management
Website: http://www.innovent.co.za/
Year Selected: 2009

Why buy the equipment and technology your company needs for day-to-day operations, when you can rent it? Such is the idea that InnoVent, a two-phase moveable asset rental and management company, was founded on.
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Entrepreneur: Rob Sussman
Company: Integr8®
Industry: ICT – Managed Services
Website: www.integr8group.com
Year Selected: 2010
 

Entrepreneur: Lance Fanaroff
Company: Integr8®
Industry: ICT – Managed Services
Website: www.integr8group.com
Year Selected: 2010

Founded at the beginning of 2001 by Rob Sussman and Lance Fanaroff, Integr8 has organically grown to become the largest privately owned ICT managed services company on the African continent..
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Entrepreneur: Shane Immelman
Company: Lapdesk
Industry: Education & Marketing
Website:

www.lapdesk.co.za

Year Selected: 2006

4.2 million school-children – almost 30% of all students in South Africa – attend school each day without one of the most basic and essential educational tools: a school desk.
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Entrepreneur: Cynthia Mkhombo
Company: Masana
Industry: Industrial Cleaning and Hygiene Services
Website: www.masanahygiene.co.za
Year Selected: 2010

Cynthia Mkhombo (37) and her cleaning services company Masana have swept up at award ceremonies and business plan competitions.
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Entrepreneur: Gustav Schoeman
Company: Nirph Digital
Industry: ICT (Software/Biometric)
Website: www.nirph.com
Year Selected: 2006
Entrepreneur: Theunis Botha
Company: Nirph Digital
Industry: ICT (Software/Biometric)
Website: www.nirph.com
Year Selected: 2006
Entrepreneur: Marius Bezuidenhout
Company: Nirph Digital
Industry: ICT (Software/Biometric)
Website: www.nirph.com
Year Selected: 2006

Nirph Digital is an innovative high technology company that employs a wide range of design engineering and systems capabilities to service our customers with solutions that will put them firmly ahead of the pack.
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Entrepreneur: Sam Hutchinson
Company: Prefix
Industry: Publishing Software Solutions
Website: www.prefix.co.za
Year Selected: 2009
Entrepreneur: Josh Adler
Company: Prefix
Industry: Publishing Software Solutions
Website: www.prefix.co.za
Year Selected: 2009

Over the last decade, the rise of the Internet and mobile platforms has sent traditional print media in a tailspin; and in emerging markets, a rising middle class has created new consumers for media across all of these changing distribution channels.
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Entrepreneur: Luvuyo Rani
Company: Silulo Ulutho Technologies
Industry: ICT
Website: www.silulo.co.za
Year Selected: 2009
Entrepreneur: Lonwabo Rani
Company: Silulo Ulutho Technologies
Industry: ICT
Website: www.silulo.co.za
Year Selected: 2009

Internet access and computer skills are extremely valuable advantages to have in this technology era. However, due to lower incomes, unstable IT infrastructure, high bandwidth costs and a limited number of internet service providers, residents of South Africa’s township areas have far less access to computers and internet than urban users.
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Entrepreneur: Shona McDonald
Company: Shonaquip
Industry: Wheelchair Manufacturing and Services
Website:
Year Selected: 2008

Shona McDonald works on the premise “that a wheelchair is not just a form of transport and a chair is not just a place to sit”.
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Entrepreneur: Kumaran Padayachee
Company: Spartan Technology Rentals
Industry: Financial Services and Technology Rentals
Website: www.spartan.co.za
Year Selected: 2004

Kumaran is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Spartan with expert knowledge in strategy, finance, business development and operations. His area of focus is “Specialist asset based financing – specifically IT rental for small to medium sized enterprises”. 
 
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Entrepreneur: Natalie Killassy
Company: Stitch Wise
Industry: Mining Safety Equipment
Website: www.stitchwise.co.za
Year Selected: 2004

South African mines are among the most dangerous in the world. Social entrepreneur Natalie Killassy believes change is needed at the bottom end of the industry to help those most at risk.
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Entrepreneur: David Jacobson
Company: Synaq
Industry: Information Technology
Website: www.SYNAQ.com
Year Selected: 2010
Entrepreneur: Yossi Hasson
Company: Synaq
Industry: Information Technology
Website: www.SYNAQ.com
Year Selected: 2010

SYNAQ is bringing South African enterprises to the cloud. Founded in 2004 by Yossi Hasson and David Jacobson, SYNAQ is one of the country’s leaders in hosted email and internet security services.
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Entrepreneur: Carlo Gonzaga
Company: Taste Holdings
Industry: Franchising
Website: www.tasteholdings.co.za
Year Selected: 2007

Carlo Gonzaga guarantees you’ll have your pizza in 39 minutes or less. But, since 2000, he’s been delivering a whole lot more than pizza.
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Entrepreneur: Wilter Du Toit
Company: Virtual Mobile Technology
Industry: Information Technology
Website: www.virtualmobiletech.com
Year Selected: 2008

Wilter is a serial entrepreneur that is passionate about business models and innovation. His key focus is to generate new business models to disrupt existing industries and to then iteratively validate them through execution.

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Entrepreneur: Rapelang Rabana
Company: Yeigo Telecommunications
Industry: Telecommunications
Website: www.yeigo.co.za
Year Selected: 2007
Entrepreneur: Lungisa Matshoba
Company: Yeigo Telecommunications
Industry: Telecommunications
Website: www.yeigo.co.za
Year Selected: 2007

Facing the prospect of their imminent graduation from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in late 2005, Rapelang Rabana, Lungisa Matshoba and Wilter du Toit all had one thing in common; none of the three wanted to follow their classmates into the corporate sector. 
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Entrepreneur: Vinny Lingham
Company: Yola
Industry: Internet Marketing
Website: www.yola.com
Year Selected: 2006

(renamed from Synthasite - March 2009 )

Yola is at the forefront of the Web 2.0 movement, offering a free Web site creation tool that empowers everyday users and small businesses to easily create professional quality Web sites.
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The following Entrepreneur Pages are Currently Under Construction

 
EDH
Graffiti Designs
Hi-Performance Learning
Injula Mining Operations
Medupe Electrical Supplies
Milkworx
Praekelt Consulting
Redfive Labs
Stoned Cherrie
Trainiac