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For exited founders, operators and investors. Meet the top-performing founders in South African tech, help them be successful, and become part of the journey as a mentor, a co-investor, or both.
For exited founders, operators and investors. Meet the top-performing founders in South African tech, help them be successful, and become part of the journey as a mentor, a co-investor, or both.
Give an hour to a founder in the area you actually know something about. Most of the value here is one good conversation at the right moment.
When a company you have been close to raises, you see it early and decide for yourself. Your own capital, your own call, deal by deal.
Founders come to you by sector and stage, so the first conversation is useful to both of you.
Some people mentor and never invest. Some invest and mentor rarely. Both work.
For a company here to create a return for its founders and its investors, it has to work in South Africa first, be profitable in South Africa first, and be ready to expand from South Africa. That order matters, and most capital gets it the wrong way round.
It also has to be patient money. It cannot be running on someone else's clock. The LPs of a global fund with no feel for the South African reality will always want the exit before the business is ready to give one.
And it has to come from people with skin in the game, who have built and exited businesses themselves. That is what this market asks of you, and it is why we invest our own capital.
Investors in South Africa or Europe who are tired of tagging along on angel deals. Operators who have built something meaningful themselves, who can speak from experience, and who thrive on real successes rather than on hype. If you would rather back a founder directly than write a cheque into a fund, and you are willing to give an hour to the person coming up behind you, this is the room.