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Are you a startup looking for funding? Do you want to compete against the world’s best start-ups and stand a chance of securing up to €1 000 000 (R 15 000 000.00) in investments into your start-up business?

Interested yet?
Get in the Ring: The Investment Battle is a worldwide competition for the most promising start-ups to secure their investment of up to €1,000,000. The competition is selected by the Kauffman Foundation as one of the ten featured events of the Global Entrepreneurship Week. In 2014 this competition will be organized in over 50 countries with over 2,000 participating start-ups. Through 50 National Finals, 8 Regional Finals 8 start-ups will be selected for the International Final which will take place on the 21st of November in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

This year, Get in the Ring (GITR) will be hosted in South Africa for the very first time. The hosts of the South African National Final event of GITR will be Silicon Cape in partnership with the bhive EDC an initiative of the Faculty of Economic Sciences & IT on the North-West University Vaal Triangle Campus and Silicon Cape.  Find out more