South Africa

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

The Edge Venture Fund is a growth capital impact fund investing in innovative, scale-up businesses in South Africa managed by Edge Growth, a leading fund manager that has been supporting SMEs since 2008.

Edge Growth achieves real transformation by partnering with corporates and growing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who in turn create jobs for the unemployed. We grow SMEs by addressing the key constraints they face:

• Access to finance
• Access to corporate markets
• Access to skills

We partner with our committed corporate clients to design and implement bespoke ESD solutions that

Convergence Partners is an investment management firm focused on the technology, telecommunications and media sectors.

Convergence Partners, founded in 2006,has a proven track record of developing new investment opportunities as well as actively adding value to investments across the life cycle of ICT assets.

As impact investors, Convergence Partners brings its skills, experience and capital to accelerate communications access and ICT infrastructure development on the Continent, focusing on initiatives that increase availability of communications, broadband services and new technology

Talent10 Holdings is an investment holding company that maximises value creation by providing financial support, strategic, managerial, sales and marketing expertise, access to diverse commercial networks as well as deal making expertise.

Talent10 Holdings was established by its founders as an investment holding company in October 2012 with the vision that by 2020 we would be a significant investment holding company in South Africa with a diversified and integrated portfolio of companies that could have a significantly broader societal impact by growing the businesses and its people. The

KNF, managed by Knife Capital, is a venture capital fund that invests in innovation-driven startup in South African. 

KNF Ventures is a SARS Section 12J Venture Capital Company - enabling qualifying investors to claim amounts invested as a full and permanent deduction from taxable income. By leveraging Knowledge, Networks & Funding, KNF Ventures accelerates the growth of South African innovation-driven SMEs and generate enhanced returns for investors.

Horizen Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on ICT and disruptive high and low tech solutions.

Horizen Ventures was founded in April 2004 as an early stage investment company initially focused on India-based technology and internet firms. In 2006, Horizen Ventures signed an exclusive partnership deal with SoftBank China & India Holdings(SBCI). Between August 2006 and December 2015, SBCI made 28 investments and Horizen Ventures’ portfolio grew to 12 companies, 5 of which were co-investments with SBCI. In most of those cases, Horizen led the co-investment and SBCI participated pro-rata.

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Alphawave is a specialised technology investment group with ownership in a number of companies and ventures.

Alphawave supports businesses seeking to do things that are difficult to replicate. As organisations require more information about the world, their products and their customers, our group provides actionable intelligence in an always connected world. The portfolio is focused on the Internet of Everything (IoE), consisting of 14 companies, with exceptional domain expertise in interconnected sensor technology, artificial intelligence, electromagnetic fields and virtual reality. Made up

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

AIIM understands the African business environment and has experience spanning a range of infrastructure asset classes. We develop, create, advise and manage private equity infrastructure funds. AIIM has funds under management of USD2.4 billion and a track record extending across seven infrastructure funds. The funds managed and advised by AIIM are designed to invest long-term institutional