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My Growth Fund is a venture capitalist, supplier development and enterprise development firm in South Africa.

With our overall goal to enhance and contribute to the economic upliftment of Africa, we provide the tools innovators need to shatter the status quo. Our accelerator, incubators, masterclasses & investments make us the only wall-to-wall enterprise and supplier development company in South Africa. Since 2014 we’ve obsessively honed what we are good at providing the expert skills, business support and access to capital that entrepreneurs and businesses need to sustainably grow. We are

Grindstone Ventures is a post-seed fund that supports early-stage innovation-driven companies to enable them to deliver capital growth and sustainable cash yields over the long term.

Grindstone Ventures is female-led and looking for technology companies with strong intellectual property and evident growth potential, with the aim of delivering capital growth and sustainable cash yields over the long term.

GROWTH ENGINEERS

We understand what it takes to start and grow a business to the point of real scaling. You need resilience, loads of patience, a good sense of humour and real grit

Tamela Holdings is a private equity firm specializing in expansion, growth, refinancing and buyouts.

Tamela started its principal investments in 2008, and has subsequently executed several transactions.To date Tamela’s portfolio of assets generate more than R2 billion of revenue. Our exposure is predominantly in the mining supplies; manufacturing; healthcare; and financial services.

For Principal Investments, Tamela prefers investing in unlisted companies with strong management teams. Tamela’s current investments are in the industrial, manufacturing and financial services sectors. To date

PAPEfunds is a late stage focused private equity firm.

PAPE Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd (“PAPE”) is a boutique private equity fund manager investing long-term equity risk capital into pedigreed South African mid-cap unlisted enterprises.

PAPE Fund Managers (PFM) has its origins in the establishment in 2005 of Pan-African Capital Holdings (PTY) Limited (PACH), an investment holding and econometric research company. The principals at PACH decided in 2008 to pursue a captive fund model and were successful in attracting the interest of RMB Ventures to invest alongside PACH in the first fund

Medu Capital is a professional investment management company with a focus on private equity, partnering with entrepreneurs to grow and develop privately owned businesses.

Established in 2003, Medu Capital provides long term capital and significant management skills, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow and develop privately owned businesses.

Imbewu Capital Partners is a black owned and controlled private equity investment holding company.

Imbewu (which means “seed” in Zulu) Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd (“Imbewu”) invests, structures and raises funding for management buy outs, leveraged buy outs and strategic Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) transactions in partnership with management teams and shareholders.

Enso Equity is a Cape town-based early and late stage venture capital firm.

As a principal investor, Ensō Equity aspires to embody these values in our dealings with our partners and to promote them in our investments. We believe that with these core principles as a guiding light, we are able to better navigate constant change and embrace innovation.

Ensō Equity invests in both early-stage and later-stage businesses. These businesses should benefit from "rising tides" in global trends and businesses that fundamentally enhance the world around us and do good.

Ensō Equity is not a passive

Aka Capital Holdings (Proprietary) Limited (“Aka Capital”) is a private equity and investment holding company headquartered in Johannesburg.

The company proactively identifies growth-industry investment opportunities, focuses on shareholder value creation and maintains transparent shareholder and governance structures.

The team leverages its resource base to the advantage of investee companies, including:

• professional experience;
• business intelligence networks;
• access to managerial talent;
• monitoring and interpreting shifts in the political economy; and
• access to markets.

Aka

Adinah is an investment management company focused on investing in private companies and taking advantage of unlisted investment opportunities in new and old companies that are innovative, disruptive and solve structural inefficiencies in the value and supply chain of companies and economies.

Adinah was founded in 2013 with the sole focus of making private company, start-up venture and tactical investments in South and Sub-Saharan Africa. It was consciously set up as an owner led and managed, “new” South African company, cognizant of the dignity and responsibility towards the countries and

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