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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.

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

The Intsika Impact Fund is a BMF initiative and was founded in 2021. It has since developed a rich network of local business partners. We make early and transformational investments in companies that have the potential to do great things. Our dedicated team is made up of seasoned investors who are looking to partner with hard-working, visionary entrepreneurs.

The Intsika Impact Fund responds to the growing market opportunity to promote SMME’s to bolster job creation and drive the transformation of the South African Business Landscape.  The Fund is designed to fill a gap in the array of

Horizon Equity Partners is one of South Africa’s longest established private equity firms with an investment track record dating back to 1992. Our executives have collectively initiated and managed equity investments in over 40 companies across a wide range of industry sectors, but with an emphasis on technology, media & telecommunications.

We specialise in the provision of growth capital and buyout capital to small and medium sized enterprises at all stages of development except start-up.

Knife Capital manages HBD Venture Capital’s South African portfolio of investments.

HBD VC is a South African venture capital fund founded by Michael Shuttleworth in 2000. HBD (an acronym for ‘Here Be Dragons’ – a term used in ancient times to mark unchartered territories on maps) offered growth capital to a range of early stage businesses. The fund is now fully invested and its current focus is on growing its investments to achieve successful exits.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory and capital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Successful innovations have durability, broad impact, and high returns. Our investment philosophy is driven by identifying new products, processes or programs with disruptive

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