Katlego Maphai (Yoco)
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Katlego Maphai (Yoco)
Katlego is the co-founder & CEO of Yoco, a fintech venture in the electronic payments space. Yoco offers an easy way for SMEs to securely accept card payments at the store or on the go, empowering the growth of entrepreneurial businesses.
Before Yoco, Katlego was part of core incubation team at Rocket Internet that built Jumia.com.ng. He is an ex-Management Consultant and MNO specialist at advisory firms Delta Partners and Accenture.
Yoco launched out of beta in October 2015. In 2016, the venture acquired over 5 000 merchants, processing a billion rands in annualised transactions.
Agenda
6:00 pm Networking (Food & Drinks)
7:00 pm Fireside Chat
7:45 pm Q&A Session
8:00 pm Networking(Cash Bar)
Hosted By Guillaume De Smedt, Cape Town Director
Guillaume De Smedt, "G", as he is otherwise known, is the Global Community Director for Startup Grind. He completed his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering and is part of the Silicon Cape Board.
Twitter: @gdesmedt1 (http://twitter.com/gdesmedt1) Hosted By Marwaan Sasman, Digital Marketing Specialist
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South African Entrepreneur. Lover of parrots, cars, food, wine, whisky, coffee, sunsets, music, movies & traveling.
Twitter: @brucelunnis (http://twitter.com/brucelunnis) Hosted By Louise De Smedt, Cape Town Co-Director
Louise is G's right-hand lady and has been helping make Startup Grind Cape Town a success since August 2013. She loves entrepreneurship and thinks that running her startup is way more fun than the corporate rat-race.
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Katlego Maphai (Yoco)