South Africa

Aka Capital Holdings (Proprietary) Limited (“Aka Capital”) is a private equity and investment holding company headquartered in Johannesburg.

The company proactively identifies growth-industry investment opportunities, focuses on shareholder value creation and maintains transparent shareholder and governance structures.

The team leverages its resource base to the advantage of investee companies, including:

• professional experience;
• business intelligence networks;
• access to managerial talent;
• monitoring and interpreting shifts in the political economy; and
• access to markets.

Aka

Adinah is an investment management company focused on investing in private companies and taking advantage of unlisted investment opportunities in new and old companies that are innovative, disruptive and solve structural inefficiencies in the value and supply chain of companies and economies.

Adinah was founded in 2013 with the sole focus of making private company, start-up venture and tactical investments in South and Sub-Saharan Africa. It was consciously set up as an owner led and managed, “new” South African company, cognizant of the dignity and responsibility towards the countries and

BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, ...

BitMEX is a trading platform that offers investors access to the global financial markets using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. BitMEX is built by finance professionals with over 40 years of combined experience and offers a comprehensive API and supporting tools. BitMEX is owned by HDR Global Trading Limited.

Kagiso Tiso Holdings is a pan African investment firm based in South Africa.

KTH is an investment holding company which, through its legacy companies Kagiso Trust Investments and Tiso Group, boasts a track record of investment performance and creating long term sustainable shareholder value. KTH currently has a portfolio of investments comprising market leading companies across key sectors. These companies are generally high-growth or cash generative and meet strict investment criteria of, inter alia, generating market related returns for KTH. KTH maintains a long term horizon and can partner

Cape Venture Partners  is a provider of business advisory services to clients in Technology, Media & Telecom businesses.

Specifically, Cape Venture Partners provide specialist advisory services to technology companies and entrepreneurs. We focus on both the high growth, early stage phase where entrepreneurs face many challenges, as well as advising more established companies with additional growth opportunities. We are passionate about developing entrepreneurs, and our style is very hands on. Our services include training, mentoring, interim management and incubation.

Shuttleworth Foundation invests in projects and people engaged in social change.

The Shuttleworth Foundation is a small social investor that provides funding to dynamic leaders who are at the forefront of social change. We look for social innovators who are helping to change the world for the better and could benefit from a social investment model with a difference.

The Foundation is at its core an experiment in open philanthropy and uses alternative funding methodologies and collaborative ways of working to ensure that every fellow receives the necessary support to succeed.

Our ideal

Innovation Edge is an innovation catalyst and social impact investor.

We support social entrepreneurs and organisations to develop, test and launch innovative solutions to early childhood challenges. More than 6 out of 10 children in South Africa are at risk of never reaching their full potential. Over 60% of South Africa’s children live in poverty. Challenging life experiences during their first six years, compounded by systemic failure, reduce their possibility of present-day and future well-being. Our investments aim to improve the chances of children’s life-long success by influencing the

Platform45 develops design-driven software for web and mobile applications.

At Platform45 we promote ideation, we collaborate, we “iterate-iterate-iterate”, and above all, we build things that matter. More and more we are seeing software becoming an integral part of any business wanting to do better, grow faster, and offer their customers “one source of truth”. We know the power of incredible software and the potential it has to change the world, we’ve been at it since 2008 building platforms for fintech start-ups, mining giants, pioneering entrepreneurs and telecom companies. Behind our

Investec is an international banking and wealth management group that provides a range of financial products and services clients.

We bring an Out of the Ordinary approach to creating and managing wealth. Founded in South Africa as a small finance company, today we offer clients our services as a global bank and asset management group. Follow us on LinkedIn for unique insights from leading minds within the world of finance and Out of the Ordinary stories about our people, communities and partners.

Getihu is an investment fund for software and data as a service startups in South Africa.

Getihu is involved in helping innovative early stage startups reach their full potential. Our investment is more than just financial. We commit to working with our portfolio companies as partners, putting our full support and resources behind global expansion.

Getihu comes from the Chinese word for ‘single entity’, and is a word that has is commonly used for technology entrepreneurs. Our vision is to create a developing world innovation hub across Cape Town, London and Lyon, providing a home for