Fireball Capital Pty Ltd
fireballcapital.co.za Direct + LP
Fireball Capital is a South African investment firm that backs local venture fund managers and also makes co-investments and direct investments in South African tech-enabled businesses. It focuses on fintech, healthcare, edtech and data platforms, aiming to help local companies scale internationally.
Fireball Capital Pty Ltd is a fund of funds headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, in fintech, healthcare, edtech and data platforms.
“While we back bold ideas across industries, our focus is on sectors at the intersection of technology and transformation: fintech, healthcare, edtech, and data platforms.”
— Fireball Capital Pty Ltd, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Fund of funds
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Invests in
- South Africa, global
- Sectors
- fintech, healthcare, edtech, data platforms
Team, as Fireball Capital Pty Ltd publishes it
- Paula Mokwena CEO & Head of Co-Investments
- Justin James CIO
- Ryan Wilborg CFO & Head of Compliance
- Geraldine Basson Head of Fund Admin & Operations
- Lerato Mashego Investment Analyst
- Abulele Pepani ESG Analyst
- Carlo Dickson Investment Advisor & Investment Committee Member
- Pierre Du Preez Investment Advisor & Chairman of the Investment Committee
Names and roles exactly as listed on fireballcapital.co.za. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 55 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 4Di Capital 6 shared companies: sendmarc.com, talk360.com, sensornetworks.co.za, rather.chat…
- Kalon Venture Partners 6 shared companies: sendmarc.com, talk360.com, carscan.ai, getmobiz.com…
- AlphaCode Venture Partners 4 shared companies: agrigateone.com, entersekt.com, sweepsouth.com, carscan.ai
- Knife Capital 4 shared companies: simera-sense.com, kasha.co, outsized.com, dataprophet.com
- DotExe Ventures 4 shared companies: sendmarc.com, talk360.com, tagmarshal.com, cubespace.co.za
- Endeavor Catalyst 3 shared companies: go1.com, onafriq.com, tymebank.co.za
- E4E Africa 3 shared companies: yebofresh.co.za, sweepsouth.com, talk360.com
- E3 Capital 2 shared companies: insightterra.com, plentify.io
- Sanari Capital 2 shared companies: sensornetworks.co.za, iidentifii.com
- Cauris Investment Management, LLC 1 shared company: fairmoney.io
and 45 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Fireball Capital Pty Ltd publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://fireballcapital.co.za/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, description, status
- https://fireballcapital.co.za/portfolio/layer, type
- https://fireballcapital.co.za/team/people
Record 21092 · added 2026-11-10 · link last verified 2026-11-10 · confidence high
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