How Uprise Africa Became The First And Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platform In South Africa
How Uprise Africa Became The First And Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platform In South Africa. Uprise Africa is South Africa’s first and leading equity crowdfunding platform that has become a new innovative space. Thus focusing on capital raising and business investments by linking both the online and real-world ecosystem.
The company believes that Investing in early stage businesses and startups can be very rewarding but comes with its risks and challenges. These risks include dilution, illiquidity, loss of investment and rarity of dividends which is why investment should only occur as part of a diversified portfolio. Uprise Africa is targeted specifically at sophisticated Investors who are sufficiently aware of these risks and make informed decisions. Investors will only be able to invest via Uprise Africa once they have passed its application process and registered on the platform.
The company was co-founded by Tabassum Qadir is the CEO of Uprise.Africa. She is also the chairperson of Uprise Markets which is an authorised Financial services provider based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Being a strategist, innovator and visionary leader she believes in the future of Equity Crowdfunding in South Africa. She is the former chair of Skywise Airline that she co-founded as a 100% female owned low-cost airline in 2014. She believes in empowering marginalised stakeholders, especially women. She is also a dynamic female leader with a background in diversified business operations.
The company was also co-founded by Patrick Schofield, he is a pioneer of crowdfunding in Africa & a founder of a number of companies, including Thundafund and BackaBuddy Technologies. Uprise Africa is keen to nurture the quality of businesses on its platform by partnering with experienced individuals who have worked with accelerators and incubators, getting them capital ready.
