{"id":671627,"date":"2023-03-10T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=671627"},"modified":"2023-03-10T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:50:25","slug":"business-talk-guardrisks-xolani-nxanga-unpacks-new-launchpad-initiative-for-scale-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/671627\/business-talk-guardrisks-xolani-nxanga-unpacks-new-launchpad-initiative-for-scale-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Guardrisk\u2019s Xolani Nxanga unpacks new LaunchPad initiative for scale-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xolani Nxanga is the Managing Executive for micro-insurance and the InsurTech Lead at Guardrisk &#8211; South Africa\u2019s leading provider of cell captive business and alternative risk transfer solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Nxanga has a decade of experience in the field and is passionate about supporting the growth of revenue-generating InsurTechs by working with investors and businesses to bring expertise, skills, and knowledge to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Before working at Guardrisk, Nxanga built up experience at companies such as Hollard Insurance, Mutual and Federal, and Liberty Group.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in Social Science from the University of Cape Town and achieved an MBA from the University of Johannesburg in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Xolani Nxanga discusses what LaunchPad is and why it was founded.<\/p>\n<p>Nxanga then unpacks the key challenges LaunchPad will solve for entrepreneurs, as well as why it focuses on working with scale-ups.<\/p>\n<p>He also explains what scale-ups must prove if they wish to benefit from LaunchPad, and details the role that venture capitalists will play in the LaunchPad initiative.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview with Xolani Nxanga below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOXtPTkmiJk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Talk \u2013 Guardrisk\u2019s Xolani Nxanga unpacks new LaunchPad initiative for scale-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":671631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[6965,17891],"class_list":["post-671627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-guardrisk","tag-launchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671653,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671627\/revisions\/671653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}