Business events worth your time

Upcoming events

• Cocktails & Capital: Backing the Backers

  2026-10-22T15:30:00+00:00 · Innovation City Cape Town, Cape Town

  Organised by Innovation City Cape Town

  A Food for Thought event brought to you by Finance Isle of Man Thursday, 22 October 2026 | 17:30–19:00 Capital is back in African tech: $3.2bn raised in 2025, up 40% on the year before. The early-stage window has gone the other way, with seed-band deals down 44% in the first half

• AI can build an app in minutes. It can’t tell you who it’s for.

  2026-10-22T22:00:00+00:00 · Online

  Organised by DayOne

  When you prompt, the AI quietly makes every decision a UX designer would normally think through: who the user is, what they’re trying to do, what goes on each screen and what happens when things go wrong. Without direction, it falls back on the average. That’s why so many AI-buil

• GTM masterclass

  2026-10-23T10:00:00+00:00 · Online

  Organised by Founder Collab

  Getting your go-to-market right is often less about doing more marketing and more about knowing what to test, where to spend, and which numbers actually matter. In this practical session, Henri Bam from RevX will unpack how early-stage founders can approach GTM and performance ma