Investors

Global venture capital company SOSV provides multi-stage funding, beginning with pre-seed business development initiatives. The primary goal of SOSV is to support forward-thinking deep-tech entrepreneurs who will significantly improve both human and environmental health. Assets under management at

Chrysalis Capital is an investment management firm focused on early-stage tech companies in emerging markets.

The Delta supports promising ventures with the executional support, network access, and strategic connections to make their mark on the world.

TLcom Capital is an Africa-focused tech VC. TLCOM collaborates with entrepreneurs to mobilize resources, cash, knowledge, and networks. Currently investing from its Tide Africa Fund, which invests $500K to $10M in Sub-Saharan African enterprises, the organization has handled over $300M.

We are creating a new approach to funding early-stage entrepreneurs, using a remote, data-driven, and largely automated investment selection process. Our solution measures entrepreneurial potential through a series of tests that evaluate skills & behaviours correlated with entrepreneurial success

Uncovered Fund supports innovative technologies that create social and industrial infrastructure from the bottom up and we give the entrepreneurs constructing a sustainable future more power.

Untapped Global plays a catalytic role in financing tech-enabled companies in emerging markets.

Ventures Platform invests in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers to access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services. 

A national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development, for higher education institutions, science councils, public entities and the private sector. TIA’s vision is to be a world-class leading technology innovation

Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) is an agency of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). SEDA serves to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that result in business growth and sustainability in

The Department of Trade Industry and Competition (the dtic) was established after the merger of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Economic Development Department.

Vision

A dynamic industrial, globally competitive South African economy, characterised by meaningful economic transformation

Kalon Venture Partners invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth technology companies, with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. Kalon Venture Partners invests growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but