Lessons from tech hardware and mining tech investors

Business Networking Event | Cape Town, Workshop 17

Join one of our global networking venues and meet like-minded entrepreneurs. We have invited business experts and investors, Nick Allen and Sahil Affriya from the revolutionary Savant - Africa's ONLY tech hardware accelerator. 

GET AN INSIDE LOOK AT VALUABLE TOPICS, INCLUDING:

• How to get funding for physical tech products
• How to turn your tech hardware idea into a business
• Opportunities in mining for startups
• Lessons for emerging markets from Indian startups

MEET NICK ALLEN AND SAHIL AFFRIYA

NICK ALLEN is a civil engineer with an MBA, and additional education in IP management, Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Corporate Governance. Nick is drawn to helping inventors and innovators turn their ideas and concepts into products and businesses that make peoples's lives better and/or solve some of the world's problems. He has a passion for building businesses from first principles. He is a founder of Savant and has been commercialising technology businesses for 20 years, taking food tech, medical devices and renewable energy businesses from concept stage to the international market.

SAHILL AFFRIYA is a principal at Savant Capital. He has gained experience with startups as an entrepreneur and as an investor. He has supported startups in multiple domains, such as spaceTech, healthTech, marketingTech, logisticsTech, etc. His spot on is integration of people, business and technology. He has, in total, four degrees.

ABOUT SAVANT

Savant invests in early stage technology start-ups with investment ready hardware innovations that are close to market with demonstrable demand. Savant has also partnered with Sibanye-Stillwater to run the iXS programme (which stands for innovate, xcellerate (read as accelerate) and scale) that specifically looks at innovations in the broader mining ecosystem.

Agenda

17:30 - Food, drinks and networking

18:00 - Fireside chat Q&A

19:00 - Drinks and networking

20:00 - End

Why attend Pranary in-person events?

Growth tips and strategies

Keep yourself and your business growing with access to cutting edge training from industry experts. 

Powerful networking

Harness the power of networking with fellow entrepreneurs, founders, business owners and managers as you expand your network and grow your contacts

Connect

Connect with others (the old fashioned way), enjoying the venue, complimentary refreshments and company of like-minded game-changers. 

Please join us at Workshop 17 on Thursday 28 July 2022 at 17h30 CAT