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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.

CRE Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in tech startup in Africa.

CRE Venture Capital partners with visionary entrepreneurs building category-defining tech companies in Africa. We bring the full arsenal of our capital, relationships, and experience to position the teams we work with for outsized success.

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

Paper Plane is an early stage venture capital firm based in South Africa.

Paper Plane Ventures was founded in late 2014 by Stuart Van der Veen  and Michael Stannard, initially as an advisory firm. Using surplus cash from consulting, the firm took options in various local startups and even in a Finnish startup, converting the options to equity in the 2017, the same year that the VC was acquired by Platform Investment Partners..The firm offers investors access to an innovative telecom and technology focused investment team with an “excellent” track record in capital deployment, merges and

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

The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA builds and sustains vigorous economic growth through aiding new businesses entering the economy in South Africa.

The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA was started to build and sustain vigorous economic growth through aiding new businesses entering the economy. By focusing on black empowerment, we will help businesses and strengthen communities in South Africa. The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA has three initiatives. 1) Helping promising sorghum farmers compete for new markets. The Trust is already working with identified farmers in the Eastern Cape and will move into

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

Motseng Investment Holdings is a diversified investment holding company with investments and operations in property and in diversified strategic assets.

Motseng was founded in 1998 by management as an integrated soft services group. The investments company has since diversified into the industrial and property sectors and is invested in a wide portfolio of listed and unlisted companies with key holdings in the property sector.

Our roots are in South Africa where we have been operating for two decades providing integrated property services, developing and acquiring property investments and

BEDCO is a parastatal of the Government of Lesotho, with a mandate to support entrepreneurial capacity building programmes, startup incubation, business advisory and technical training as well as develop Basotho enterprises by assisting in their establishment, promotion and growth. 

Key priority areas under the strategic plan include enterprise development; financial sustainability, stakeholder collaborations' organisational effectiveness; and human capital development.Under enterprise development; BEDCO develops and implements entrepreneurship programmes in the priority sectors namely