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Acorn is a specialist private equity fund manager and investment advisor focused exclusively on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Acorn provides a platform for high-net-worth individuals, institutions and funding partners to participate directly in private equity, which is currently done through an investment holding company, Acorn Agri & Food. Prior to Acorn Agri & Food, the Acorn General Fund One was a limited liability partnership that might be replicated in future investment vehicles.

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Silvertree Holdings is a holding and operating company that invests in early and mid stage digital companies in Sub-Saharan African markets.

ilvertree is an entrepreneur-led investment growth partner scaling consumer and digital brands in Africa. From founding in 2013, the Silvertree portfolio has grown to include 12 companies employing 400 people across 13 locations in 3 cities. Silvertree follows an owner-operator approach and puts its own capital at risk by investing from its balance sheet and has generated returns of 13x to shareholders in 4 years. We support entrepreneurs by providing

Digital Africa Ventures' aim as a black woman managed venture capital fund is to bridge the funding and support gap for early stage tech entrepreneurs in South Africa.

Serving the underserved and representing the underrepresented, our aim is to bridge the funding and support gap for early stage tech entrepreneurs. We are one of the very few black woman managed venture capital funds in South Africa and believe our diversity sets us apart.

Action Hero Ventures is a private investment holding company that makes early stage investments into real businesses run by strong entrepreneurs.

The company was founded in 2013 by Ernst Hertzog (M.Eng, MBA), an industrial engineer with professional experience in telecommunications, healthcare and financial services.

We look for scalable businesses in various industries that require relatively small amounts of capital to grow. We prefer to invest alongside other investors for a minority equity stake. Funding in itself is not sufficient to grow a business, therefore we add value by assisting

Knife Capital is an equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction.

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm who by leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, accelerate the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. We have offices in Cape Town and London and invest via a consortium of funds under management, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company: KNF Ventures and Draper-Gain Investments.

An entrepreneur-centric Venture Capital Fund of experienced entrepreneurs, aligned mentors and investors that reinvest their knowledge and wealth in a next generation of entrepreneurs, to create thriving businesses and impact at scale.

We are entrepreneurs with extensive experience in building business in South Africa and internationally.

Having collaborated for some time, we have now established E4E to mentor and invest in a new generation of South African entrepreneurs building Africa.

Savant is the only dedicated hardware technology incubator in South Africa. Savant fills a critical gap in the early-stage funding space. We provide a supportive, founder friendly environment for very early-stage hardware technology innovators and founders. With over 20 years of experience supporting early-stage hardware technology innovators and founders, the Savant team prides itself in providing a supportive, founder-friendly environment for our portfolio companies, which ultimately enhances the probability of the success of our investments.

Savant Venture Fund focuses on investing in

One Thousand and One Voices is a private equity company investing around the world.

1K1V invests in sub-Saharan Africa with an exclusive LP base of leading family offices. 1K1V looks to drive economic development and create stable jobs through deploying private family capital. 1K1V targets investments among Sub-Saharan Africa across a variety of sectors, including agribusiness, healthcare and education to name a few. To-date, 1K1V’s investments have created or sustained over 5,600 jobs and financial wellbeing to over 45,000 people.

Naspers is a global internet firm that invests in technology in markets across the world.

Naspers is not only a global consumer internet group and but also one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating and investing in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential, Naspers builds leading companies that empower people and enrich communities. The group operates and partners a number of leading internet businesses across the Americas, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia in sectors including online classifieds, food delivery, payments, travel

Mergence Investment Manager offers investments – both Public market and Private market – spanning equity, multi-asset class funds, infrastructure, debt and private equity funds.

Mergence Group is a diversified holding company founded in 2004. With operations throughout Southern Africa, the group has nine subsidiary companies under two main streams: financial holdings and industrial holdings – spanning asset management, corporate advisory, commodity finance, fintech, metal and composites manufacturing. The largest subsidiary is Mergence Investment Managers with R34bn under management. The