SA’s Giraffe wins $500k investment at Seedstars World
Summary
South African mobile recruitment platform Giraffe was last night named winner of the Seedstars World global startup pitching competition, taking home US$500,000 in investment. Seedstars World hosted African heats in Mozambique, South Africa,Nigeria,Ghana,Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, Tanzania, Senegal and Botswana, with Giraffe winning the South African leg to earn a place in the final. But we still have a long way to go and a lot of hard work to do before we achieve our mission of helping reduce unemployment in the emerging world and lifting people out of poverty,” said Shafin Anwarsha, Giraffe co-founder and head of product. Despite the current issues at home, investors should take heed of this and take a long view that South Africa will once again emerge victorious.” Giraffe wants to reduce unemployment in South Africa by improving access to job listings for the low and medium skilled jobs market using mobile. “Giraffe is cheaper, faster and has wider reach than recruitment agents, portals and labour brokers.”