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Portfolio
HisWay Labs' TrackView sends micro electric pulses into the rail to watch roughly 2 km of track for breaks, so operators get earlier warning of a broken rail before it causes a derailment.
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Investment
Octoco Group has taken a strategic equity stake in HisWay Labs, the Cape-based company behind TrackView, a solar-powered system that monitors rail integrity and train positioning around the clock.
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Portfolio
Yenza Venture Studio's first investment has listed an actively managed ETF on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, fourteen months after the app launched.
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Portfolio
Individual returns for the 2026 year opened on 13 July. TaxTim walks South Africans through theirs, with Tim, its AI assistant, on the platform and on WhatsApp.
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Group
Octoco Consulting, the group's engineering company, marks a leadership milestone as James de Villiers takes over as Chief Executive.
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Portfolio
Fresh from its EU patent, HisWay Labs introduced its rail-break sensing device to European operators in Madrid as part of a South African trade delegation.
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Investment
South Africa's digital tax assistant has new owners. Octoco Group joined the Twofold Capital-led consortium, and co-founder Evan Robinson stays on as Head of Product.
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Investment
The group's venture studio closed its first investment from the venture programme: Squirrel Away, a fintech that lets family and friends invest in a child's future from R10.
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Group
Octoco and InventAfrika put forty engineering students from Stellenbosch and UCT in a room at Workshack for twenty hours, with one brief: build a playful machine.
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Group
The group's third operating company launches: an AI innovation studio that takes organisations from training to production and co-builds AI-native ventures with founders.
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Group
From a focused CTO-services firm in 2020 to a group with three operating companies, a venture studio and a growing portfolio: a look back at the first five years.
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Group
A venture studio for early-stage, tech-enabled founders opens in Stellenbosch, backed by a group that has already invested in 13 startups, eight of them revenue-generating and four profitable.
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Portfolio
Five months of engineering with Octoco replaced spreadsheet imports with real-time API integration and an automated claims portal, setting up LeaseSurance's no-deposit rental model to scale.
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Group
The Stellenbosch software consultancy behind work for Capitec, Absa and OneDayOnly becomes part of the group, adding product design and custom software to the services wing.
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