{"id":308,"date":"2017-03-23T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2017-03-23T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T05:36:21","slug":"cape-town-start-up-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/startup\/cape-town-start-up-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Start Up City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to Cape Town in June of 2015, and settled here in October of the same year. \u00a0I joined a start-up called Jumo, which was working on delivering mobile loans to phones in a couple countries. \u00a0Fast forward one and a half years, and we are in seven countries and I have launched the first marketplace for financial services in Africa. \u00a0A lot has happened, and a lot is still to come. \u00a0I do credit a lot of Jumo&#8217;s, and my, success to its location in Cape Town. \u00a0This is a beautiful city, full of creative people, and plenty of great infrastructure. \u00a0It&#8217;s a place that smart people would want to work. \u00a0That shows itself in the many great companies that are being set up in Cape Town. \u00a0This city was ranked in the 25 best cities for start-ups recently, and Silicon Cape, as much as I hate that, is becoming more of a thing. \u00a0The city of Cape Town recently released an infographic about all of this. \u00a0You can check it out at this link (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CapeTown_Infographic-Final.pdf\">CapeTown_Infographic-Final<\/a>), or try zoom in on the jpeg below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uplCapeTown_Infographic-Fina\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1182\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM.png 1182w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-1024x366.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-700x250.png 700w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-520x186.png 520w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-360x129.png 360w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-250x89.png 250w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-7.32.44-AM-100x36.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1182px) 100vw, 1182px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to Cape Town in June of 2015, and settled here in October of the same year. \u00a0I joined a start-up called Jumo, which was working on delivering mobile loans to phones in a couple countries. \u00a0Fast forward one and a half years, and we are in seven countries and I have launched the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}