Kalon Venture Partners
kalonvp.com Direct investor
Kalon Venture Partners is a South African venture capital firm that invests growth capital in high-growth technology companies, focusing on disruptive tech startups with potential to scale in Africa and globally. It operates as a Section 12J Venture Capital Company.
Kalon Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in technology, fintech, insurtech and retail. Its stated cheque size is R5 000 000 to R10 000 000. Circa R100 000 000 under management, as it reports.
“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, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Invests in
- South Africa, Africa, global
- Sectors
- technology, fintech, insurtech, retail, media, entertainment, AI, cybersecurity
- Cheque size
- R5 000 000 to R10 000 000
- Assets under management
- circa R100 000 000
Team, as Kalon Venture Partners publishes it
- Romeo Kumalo Non-Executive Chairman
- Leron Varsha CEO
- Arnold Basserabie Non-Executive Director
- Edwin Oblowitz Non-Executive Director
- Fatima Habib Non-Executive Director
- Marc Balkin Non-Executive Director
- Gil Oved Non-Executive Director
- Melbourne Nyamadzawo Analyst
- Sean Bernstein Senior Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on kalonvp.com. 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. 4 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 4Di Capital 2 shared companies: sendmarc.com, talk360.com
- Hlayisani Capital 1 shared company: gometroapp.com
- Atlantica Ventures Management LLC 1 shared company: sendmarc.com
- E4E Africa 1 shared company: talk360.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Kalon Venture Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.kalonvp.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, people, status, confidence
- https://www.kalonvp.com/about/our-vision-sub/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.kalonvp.com/about/the-fund/cheque_size, aum
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