Umkhathi Wethu Ventures (UW Ventures) is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

UW derives its philosophy from its name – “Umkhathi Wethu” is isiZulu for “Our Universe”. We believe in investing in and managing companies for the long term alongside management, co-investors and our institutional investment partners. UW engages in two main activities: Venture Capital + We make early-stage and transformational investments in a wide variety of emerging

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.

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

Phatisa is a leading African private equity fund manager.focused on investments across the African food value chain, plus affordable housing; whilst balancing commercial returns with impact objectives.

Established in 2005, the firm focusses on investments across the African food value chain, plus affordable housing; whilst balancing commercial returns with impact objectives. Phatisa has three funds under management, totalling more than US$ 400 million, managed by a team of over 35 dedicated staff with a proven track record of managing private equity funds and commercial businesses throughout

The Jua Kickstarter Fund invests in early stage entrepreneurs and also equips them with mentoring and guidance to grow their businesses.

The Jua Fund is an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. We are sector agnostic and back tech and tech-enabled companies with a typical check size of up to $250k. Our portfolio companies then have a direct line to capital to scale from pre-seed, to Seed, to Series A and beyond. Our goal is to develop the continent through empowering a new generation of African

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.

Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa.

Enygma Ventures is a unique purpose driven investment fund, led by award winning entrepreneurs with 40 years of combined experience growing and scaling businesses in Africa, US & Europe. We understand the struggles and challenges of building big businesses, having built big businesses ourselves. We wholeheartedly believe in win/win scenarios for the investor and entrepreneur and therefore have the ability to create flexible financial solutions with efficient & strategic deployment of

Arigo Investments Africa is an advisory and diversified investments company. Our services are geared toward start-ups, strategic-growth and high-potential companies in Sub-Sahara Africa across a myriad of industry verticals.

Our investments are driven by entrepreneurial passion to solve societal challenges. We pioneer new ventures and invest in founders and their businesses, preferring active participation in growing the operations we partner in. We are expanding our base of diversified investments into larger listed and unlisted corporates in Africa.

Our current portfolio consists of

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