Venture Capital

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.

IsimoVest is an early stage, venture investment company, focused on helping entrepreneurs develop their businesses, from concept to market peneration.
We invest in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds.

We are technology agnostic, but focus on technology enabled businesses, with a proven unique selling proposition, geared to have significant positive, impact on the communities and markets it serves.

Ishe Africa is a female-led $10MM venture capital fund, domiciled in Mauritius, investing in technology and technology-enabled start-ups in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-fastest-growing region in the world. The Ishe Africa team consists of operators, software developers, business developers and finance professionals with experience across the region. We believe that this will be instrumental in supporting portfolio companies with their regional expansion, a key to our investment philosophy.

iPartners Africa (iPA) is the leading African Venture Capital management company in innovative, owner managed businesses with high growth potential. We are also committed to job creation, BEE and Social Impact.

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

Godisa Supplier Development Fund, a partnership between the state (Small Business Finance Agency (Sefa)) and the private sector (Transnet).

Through the Godisa Fund, small black-owned businesses will get financial and non-financial support that will enable them to provide services and manufactured goods to Transnet, the freight logistics parastatal responsible for ports, rail, and fuel and gas pipelines and storage.

To qualify for Godisa funding, applicants had to fall under the description of a small business, should be black-owned and be able to render a service to Transnet. 

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

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

Dazzle Angels is a female-focused angel fund, that is led and funded by experienced businesswomen. Our angels not only invest their money but also invest their time, skills and networks, which is where the real value lies. All of our angels are successful entrepreneurs or experts in their field and are passionate about building early-stage businesses, leveraging their skills and networks to help our Zebras build the next generation of female-led businesses. We are looking for great businesses – businesses that solve a real problem, have a business model and will be sustainable – and happen to

Crucis Venture Capital's funding solution for entrepreneurs is a 12J company structure, that focuses on 5 sectors we believe have the most potential for sustainable growth in the medium term.

The 5 sectors are:
1. Fintech
2. Medical tech
3. Manufacturing
4. Waste
5. Agro-processing