Why talk about AI: Artificial Intelligence or AI has gathered a lot of interest recently. Whether it is start-ups riding the hype wave or people being wary of an intelligent machine gaining consciousness, there is misinformation and misunderstanding around the implications of AI in our every day lives. To find out more on how Artificial […]
Just yesterday FinChatBot, one of our proprietary start-ups, was nominated to take part in the Startup Challenge Africa. This event brings 10 innovative FinTech companies to compete in front of hundreds of professionals from all over Africa. We are extremely excited for our team as over 100 applications were submitted from 16 countries. The selection process involved […]
On Friday the 31st of March, our incubated startup FinChatBot participated in and won the Geeks-On-A-Plane & 500 Startups pitching contest, hosted by Startup Grind Cape Town. We at Far Ventures are extremely excited to write this post and incredibly proud of this amazing achievement. Winning this event has served as yet another form of […]
The stokvel tracking start-up, Yethu, has been featured on multiple media channels these past two weeks. This attention comes as the mobile application is gaining customer traction, with over 350 registered users since the product launch on January 9th, 2017. Media Attention Featured in a News24 article, a web post on ITWeb and a radio interview with […]
Founded in July 2016, Jumpin Rides launched its web-enabled carpooling service in September of the same year. Currently boasting 500 registered users, the company is aggressively gaining customer traction by bringing a solution to local needs. The team has been incubated by Far Ventures for 9 months and this is their plan to conquer the […]
1.6 million rand of seed funding for a chat bot to disrupt the financial industry On January 27th, FinChatBot announced the completion of its first round of seed-funding to the value of ZAR 1.6 million. The round was led by business angel Richard Marsden, founder and CEO of Envision Risk, a seasoned executive of the South African […]
After a year spent in our offices (more like a garage) located in the gentrifying neighborhood of Salt River, the growing Far Ventures team was feeling cramped. Indeed there was little room to expand our portfolio and even less so to properly launch our incubator. We are proud to announce that we have recently relocated […]
We all spend too much time calling call centres. It’s true. On average, it takes 10min to connect with an operator for a 3 minute conversation. Here at FinChatBot, we have decided to tackle this issue by not only providing a way to avoid this unnecessary waste of time, but also reducing call centres costs: a chatbot Founded in […]
