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by Marius Van Niekerk It Began Suddenly The sudden death of my best friend thrust me into the middle of a terrible mess of missing information, conflicting demands, and spiraling confusion. It didn’t have to be that way. Just over three years ago my best friend of 28 years passed away. He was 43, successful,...

Startup Open House is partnering with Elevate with a mission to connect more than 5,000 students, job-seekers, and young professionals to hundreds of innovative companies and startups across Toronto in 2018. We attended the Toronto Startup Open House held at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. We drew quite a crowd with our Word Puzzle and...

Rattlehub has been selected to demo our permyssion platform at the FinovateAfrica conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on the 27th-28th of November 2018. We will demo our personal data enrichment platform to solve the risks and costs of our increasingly fragmented digital lives, which is targeted at people or institutions looking to own and...

Rattlehub Digital has appointed Perx the Exclusive Channel Partner of South Africa. Perx has been tasked to grow the B2B Client base for Rattlehub Digital’s personal data enrichment platform, called permyssion (my permission). Under the contract, Perx will be tasked to introduce, grow and implement permyssion to their existing and future client base. Perx, with...

We are pleased to announce that Michael McCarthy will be joining as an independent advisor to the business. Michael’s considerable experience in Canada will assist greatly in positioning our platform to the market on a B2B and B2B2C basis. In addition to sitting on the boards of several innovative entrepreneurial software companies, Michael is a...

Marius & Gary attended the Finovate conference where 60 companies demo’d live to an audience of 1,500+. The Best of Show awards went to companies focusing on solving or improving the customer experience in lending, or trying to assist financial institutions to get a better understanding of their customers’ needs and preferences, or making it...

Steve Watt has joined our team in Canada to spearhead our North American growth strategy. His background includes marketing, demand generation and sales roles while he also developed the multi-channel Account Based Marketing (ABM) initiatives at a number of B2B organizations of various sizes. He is the co-founder of the Toronto ABM Summit and a...

Following our successful debut at the Financial Planning Institute’s Convention, we are pleased to announce that our first client in Namibia has signed up to the permyssion platform and will also be deploying the Advisor and Estate Consoles. Carel Greyling (Chief Data Officer) who met with Cornel Bergh in Cape Town mentioned that Platinum Trust...

Our CEO, Marius van Niekerk, has officially taken up space at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We are looking forward to building our HQ team and will shortly be recruiting software developer, data scientists and blockchain specialists. This will be the new HQ for Rattlehub Digital while retaining the subsidiary office in Southdowns...

From a career as an international mining industry executive to the founder of a visionary fin-tech start-up and an Ironman (triathlon) enthusiast, Marius van Niekerk is discovering a new meaning in life as an entrepreneur After an extensive career with mining giant BHP Billiton, CA(SA) Marius van Niekerk changed tack to co-found technology start-up b4yougo...