• The Vision

• Eco-System

• Culture

• Scale

The Challenges

• The Silicon Cape Vision is of an Eco-System in the Western Cape of South Africa, that serves to attract and bring together local and foreign investors, the brightest technical talent, and the most promising entrepreneurs to foster the creation and growth of world-class IP start-up companies in an environment that competes with similar hubs around the world against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful settings and pleasant places to live, work and play on the globe.

The Vision

Venture CapitalCorporate Investors

Business Angels

Local or foreign?Where trained?

Track recordGlobal Mindset

Team Composition

TechnologyBusiness Model

CommercialisationWho owns the IP?

CrimeRemoved from other “hot spots”

Wealth creation is difficult in $ or €Capetonians are clique

• Top Research Universities

• Skills

• Anchor Corporates

• Professional Services

• Investor Network

• Support Network

• Infrastructure

• Legal and regulatory environment

• Local market

• Access to foreign markets

• Brand

Eco-System

• Entrepreneurship is a respectable career

• Failure is part of the learning curve

• Mediocracy is simply not good enough

• Life-style versus world-class

Culture

Scale

• Skills

• Patents

• Success Stories

• Investors

• Markets

Thank You

Cape Town