Latest Technology News In South Africa
Andrew Florance founded CoStar Group in 1987 with the idea that commercial real-estate professionals needed organised, continuously updated information rather than fragmented paper records. The early business sent researchers into markets to collect property, tenant and transaction data and then delivered the information electronically to customers.
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Entrepreneur Bob Parsons founded Jomax Technologies in 1997 after selling his previous software company. The business entered domain registration as the internet opened to more commercial users and competition increased beyond the original registry structure.
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Amkor’s semiconductor lineage began in South Korea in 1968 with ANAM Industrial under Hyang-Soo Kim, while James Kim founded Amkor Electronics in the United States to market and sell semiconductor packaging services. The early Korean operation started with only a handful of wire and die bonders, performing the assembly work that protects bare semiconductor dies and connects them to external systems.
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Manhattan Associates began in 1990 when five technology specialists working on an ERP project for clothing company Jockey saw gaps in how manufacturers complied with large retailers’ shipping and labelling requirements. They created a packaged warehouse-management product in Manhattan Beach, California, and named the company after that original location.
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Eric Lefkofsky founded Tempus in August 2015 after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and he encountered how difficult it was to connect clinical and molecular data during treatment. He recruited Ryan Fukushima as the first employee and began building a platform intended to make healthcare data more useful for personalised treatment decisions.
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Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell founded Aurora in 2017 after senior roles in self-driving programmes at Google, Tesla and Carnegie Mellon. The founders deliberately designed one autonomous-driving platform, the Aurora Driver, that could be adapted to several vehicle types rather than starting with a single car model.
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Dylan Field and Evan Wallace started Figma in 2012 with the ambition of making creative tools collaborative and accessible through the web. The founders spent several years building graphics technology capable of delivering professional design performance inside a browser before releasing Figma more broadly.
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QXO’s current strategy began in June 2024 when Brad Jacobs and co-investors invested US$1 billion into SilverSun Technologies, renamed the public company QXO and installed Jacobs as chairman and chief executive. Unlike a typical start-up, QXO was designed as an acquisition platform from the beginning, targeting the large building-products distribution industry and planning to use technology as an operating advantage.
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Nexon was founded in South Korea in 1994 by Kim Jung-ju and partners during the early commercial internet era. The company focused from the beginning on online games rather than packaged console software, building worlds that could be updated continuously after launch.
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IREN, originally known as Iris Energy, was founded in Australia in 2018 by brothers Daniel and Will Roberts with a strategy of building data-centre infrastructure near renewable and low-cost energy. The first major workload was Bitcoin mining, where electricity cost and data-centre efficiency directly determine economics.
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