South Africa

Inspired Evolution is a specialised investment advisory business dedicated to two principle investment themes: clean energy infrastructure-type development and project finance investments; and energy and resource efficiency growth investments.

Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment advisory business dedicated to two principle investment themes: clean energy infrastructure-type development and project finance investments; and energy and resource efficiency growth investments – and the value chains that support them. Inspired Evolution’s investment territory

Broadreach is an investment and corporate finance house with a particular focus on businesses that have a positive impact on their physical or social environments.  

Broadreach was founded in 2014 by a group of like-minded individuals, with a vision to be the bridge between the technical and financial worlds of renewable energy. Broadreach specializes in building, operating and maintaining clean energy generation and energy efficiency projects for its clients throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from stand-alone solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Namibia and Rwanda to rooftop installations

Ata Capital is a cross-sectoral, alternative asset class fund manager, focused on identifying and maximising real investment opportunities that create sustained stakeholder impact, generate effective returns and drive sector transformation. 

he company, founded in 2012 by CEO, Lelo Rantloane, and the Harris Family Office, is majority black-owned and is managed by a group of seasoned investment professionals. Ata Capital’s purpose is to attract and manage private and institutional capital, structuring diverse investments that generate relative returns for investors, employees and shareholders

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