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Startup Huddle: From Start to Scale – Building a Strong Foundation, is a bold and new monthly series hosted at 22 On Sloane, where alumni and resident founders come together to share what they’re building, the challenges they’re facing, and get real-time feedback from their peers and ecosystem mentors.

 

Each session features two entrepreneurs who take us behind the scenes of their startup journey — offering an unfiltered look into the ups and downs of building a business. Through live input and community discussion, the goal is to learn together, grow together, and build stronger foundations for our ventures.

 

Each edition of Startup Huddle will feature a different theme — keeping the format fresh, relevant, and driven by the needs of our founder community.

 

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The Startup Huddle event provides a platform for entrepreneurs to discover solutions to the challenges they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from the local community, who can also share their experiences.

 

Startups are given context about the topic at hand, which includes tools, tricks and techniques from experts. This can take up to 10min. Thereafter, they will be given 2-3 minutes to tell us about some of the challenges they have encountered in their business venture. Participants then get into small groups where they Huddle for a 10-minute -interactive activity. Each group selects a team member or two to share what they discussed. The Huddle will close off having equipped the techies with practical and value-add experience they can use in their startup journey.

The AI-Driven Innovation Hackathon challenges participants to work in teams to design and build practical solutions using Artificial Intelligence to tackle real-world challenges faced by businesses and communities.

The AI-Driven Innovation Hackathon challenges participants to work in teams to design and build practical solutions using Artificial Intelligence to tackle real-world challenges faced by businesses and communities.

AI Driven Hackathon

Date : 8 – 9  November 2025

Day 1 : 09:00 – Late

Day 2 : 07:30 – 16:00

Location : 22 On Sloane Cape Town Hub, 39 Somerset Road, Green Point, 8005

The AI Innovation Forum, hosted in partnership with Open AI, is a lead-up event to the Africa Tech Festival, focusing on Africa’s role in the global conversation on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The summit will dive into how AI can support startups, MSMEs, and communities to drive innovation and opportunity at scale.

The AI Innovation Forum, hosted in partnership with Open AI, is a lead-up event to the Africa Tech Festival, focusing on Africa’s role in the global conversation on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The summit will dive into how AI can support startups, MSMEs, and communities to drive innovation and opportunity at scale.

AI Innovation Forum

Date : 10 November 2025

Time : 09:30 – 15:00

Location : 22 On Sloane Cape Town Hub, 39 Somerset Road, Green Point, 8005