Human health activities

SABAN (South African Business Angel Network) is the non-profit, professional association for the South African early stage investor community. Established in 2016, SABAN represents a sector that plays a vital role in South Africa’s future, notably in the funding of Start-Ups. SABAN members fuel SA’s growth through the creation of wealth and jobs.

– Raising awareness of Angel investing activity 

– Capacity building / training

– Networking with peers

– Research

– Accreditation

– Seeding Angel Groups in major economic hubs

– Lobbying for regulatory improvements

– Recognise

Newtown Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startup businesses. Founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, Newtown Partners has an entrepreneurial focus that goes beyond investment. The team operates out of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley).

The firm has a strong track record of investing in successful technology startups at the forefront of innovation and has successfully invested in and nurtured a number of early-stage companies

We provide venture capital for companies and strategize their route to market dominance. We offer resources from day one that will set companies up for accelerated growth.

• Seed Capital. Tap into our resources and find a partner who has the foresight to see the potential in your dream.
• Start Up. Our team of experts will assist in refining your product value proposition and set you on course to grow your market share and become profitable.
• Growth Capital. Through providing expansion capital we will help you grow your business and position you as a market leader.

We fund technology-enabled

Kalon Venture Partners is the disruptive technology VC team with the most dynamic and well-experienced executives in the SA tech VC space with a combined 200 years of technology, business building, venture capital and entrepreneurial experience. Kalon is not just about funding and smart capital. It’s about smart returns. We believe you will achieve great returns if you create as much non-financial as financial value.

Invenfin is a strategic venture partner owned and backed by the Remgro Group. We invest in high growth businesses with international ambitions.

Grovest Venture Capital Company Limited is a venture capital trust specializing in investing in startups, early stage pre and post revenue companies, series A, series B, growth capital, and mature companies based in South Africa. It typically invests in high growth, scalable, low capex private companies. The fund seeks to invest in the disruptive digital technology sector.

Fund mandate

To build a portfolio of potentially high growth small and medium sized companies that:

• Are revenue producing;
• Have impressive and plausible business models;
• Are attractively priced and having potential

Founders Factory is a venture builder that is scaling African ventures by providing programming that combines; the intelligence and experience of local and global technical specialists and entrepreneurs, access to a global network of investors, and exclusive partnerships with corporate giants.

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program.

Small Foundation is a Dublin-based philanthropic organization that focuses on the rural and

Black Women-Owned South African Fund Managers 

Firebird Fund Managers has its roots in business rescue and private equity. We specialize in identifying businesses which are distressed but where active intervention, new capital, debt restructures and compromises, can remedy the distress. We ensure Transformation and Impact through the following:Firebird is 75% black ownedJobs retained is key metric to us as well as above average IRR’s We hand over our businesses wherever possible to new entrants  Sustainable businesses with great governance is our goal

Firebird Turnaround Fund – Investment

The Energy and Environment Partnership covering Southern and East Africa (EEP Africa) is a multi-donor fund providing early-stage grant and catalytic financing to innovative clean energy projects, technologies and business models.

EEP Africa has been at the forefront of efforts to fast track clean energy access and sustainable and inclusive green growth, channeling more than EUR 57 million to 200+ pioneering projects with positive impacts on lives and livelihoods.

In January 2018, EEP Africa transitioned into a multi-donor trust fund managed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). This new

Earth Capital is a ‘Post Seed and Series A’ stage equity impact investor, which scales post revenue, commercially viable venture solutions to social and environmental issues in South Africa.   Earth Capital has emerged in response to a range of socio-economic and environmental mega-trends both in South Africa, Africa and the rest of the planet.

We exist to fill a large funding gap for early stage impact ventures, which are typically too risky or too small in investment size, to be of interest to typical institutional investors in South Africa. In partnership with our sister company, Impact