ClimateHack Cape Town & Holocene: Wisdom in the Woods
Join us for our first event of the year, Wisdom in the Woods, featuring insights from entrepreneur and climate investor Jonathan Smit.
On 28 January we'll bring together the Holocene and ClimateHack CT community in Newlands Forest to hear from Jonathan, founder of PayFast- one of South Africa’s most successful fintech businesses- and an entrepreneur with deep expertise in technology, payments, and retail. His journey of building, scaling, and exiting PayFast and his subsequent pivot into climate tech investing and interest in the energy startup space is a story that will inspire climate tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors alike.
We'll start with learnings from Jonathan, followed by a 3km walk through the woods to connect and reflect, then reconvene for further discussion, 30 second pitches and drinks amongst our climate community.
Don’t miss this opportunity to share ideas, meet great people and enjoy nature together!
Guest Speakers :
Jonathan Smit: Founder of PayFast, Climate Tech Investor
Q&A: you will have the opportunity to ask questions to your local speakers.
Pitch: Are you launching a new product? Are you looking for your next R&D expert or your next CEO? Are you looking for a job or an internship? Join our 30-second pitch session and share your business update with the audience (open to anyone).
Networking with drinks & awesome people
Date: 28 January 2025
Hour: 17.30-19.30
Venue: Newlands Forest
Your hosts: Holocene and ClimateHack
About the Organizer:
Holocene is Southern Africa's leading early stage climate tech VC. Holocene invests financial and human capital into pre-Seed to Seed stage climate tech companies across Africa, while also building a climate community of entrepreneurs, investors and climate enthusiasts through events and conferences.
ClimateHack is a community-driven platform that inspires, highlights and connects climatetech entrepreneurs and innovators. With meetups across the globe, a weekly climatetech industry newsletter, weekly reports on climatetech, and an annual summit.
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