SAVCA VC Conference 2024 Sponsors
Thank you to this year's sponsors.
Co-Sponsors
E Squared Investments
E Squared is a South African impact investor that supports start-ups and growing ventures driving both commercial and social returns. It provides entrepreneur-friendly, patient capital to businesses at all stages, from pre-seed to maturity, along with end-to-end business support through post-investment value creation programmes.
Partnering for growth, E Squared takes a longer-term investment view and works alongside start-ups, incubators, accelerators, and investors to capture and nurture entrepreneurial talent. E Squared supports founders across all sectors to build businesses that create sustainable commercial value, attack poverty in a meaningful way, and address unemployment and inequality in South Africa.
Jersey Finance
Jersey Finance is a not-for-profit organisation that works closely with key partners to represent and promote Jersey as a forward-thinking international finance centre (IFC). We have a presence in Jersey, London, Dubai, Johannesburg, Hong Kong SAR, New York, Shanghai and Singapore.
Jersey’s relationship with Africa is broad, deep, and based on shared interests. Our Island acts as an investment gateway for African investors to the UK, European and global markets.
As an award-winning IFC, we look forward to a continued relationship with financial services professionals and partners in Africa, providing investors with opportunities to effect positive change and make a difference with their capital.
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RealFin Fund Services
Working Better Together
RealFin has been a trusted partner to some of SA’s leading alternative asset fund managers for more than a decade. RealFin is the provider of choice in the domestic alternative investment industry, offering a complete service offering to fund managers.
Our clients have ranged from larger institutional players to smaller boutiques.
In an ever-changing legislative environment, specialist skills are required to ensure compliance. To this end, it is the vision of RealFin to be a provider of choice in the domestic alternative investment industry, by ultimately offering a complete service offering to alternative investment managers.
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Lineage Invest
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Edge Growth
Leading Growth. Igniting Impact.
Edge Growth specialises in maximum impact SME development, offering end-to-end solutions, addressing growth constraints like access to finance, market and skills. Our offering includes:
- ESD Strategy for corporates, growing SMEs in their value-chain
- Investing in and developing SMEs through funding
- Scaling businesses to their full potential through accelerator programmes
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Camaku
Formed with the aim of providing an innovative and agile approach to deal making and legal services, Camaku offers cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality and execution. By creating long lasting relationships, Camaku utilizes an intimate knowledge of its clients’ business requirements in order to provide a customized service offering.
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E Squared Investments
E Squared is a South African impact investor that supports start-ups and growing ventures driving both commercial and social returns. It provides entrepreneur-friendly, patient capital to businesses at all stages, from pre-seed to maturity, along with end-to-end business support through post-investment value creation programmes.
Partnering for growth, E Squared takes a longer-term investment view and works alongside start-ups, incubators, accelerators, and investors to capture and nurture entrepreneurial talent. E Squared supports founders across all sectors to build businesses that create sustainable commercial value, attack poverty in a meaningful way, and address unemployment and inequality in South Africa.
IDF Capital
IDF Capital is an established Venture Capital and early-stage Private Equity investor. The fund manager actively invests in innovative, and technology-enabled businesses driving growth at both top and bottom lines through a proactive gender lens investing strategy that aims to achieve commercial returns alongside social returns.
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HAVAÍC
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that invests in and supports early-stage, high-growth African technology businesses with proven concepts and global prospects. With a track record for internationalising its portfolio companies, HAVAÍC offers access to high returning and impactful investment opportunities to its sophisticated private and institutional investors, born in Africa, but realising their true potential across the globe.
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SA SME Fund
The SA SME Fund is a venture capital fund of funds manager, investing through top-tier VC firms to support high-growth South African startups. By backing innovative businesses, it drives entrepreneurship, job creation, and economic growth, fostering a dynamic venture capital ecosystem in the country.
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Knife Capital
Knife Capital is a venture capital investment manager that accelerates the international expansion of African innovation-driven businesses by leveraging knowledge, networks and funding. Knife manages AUM in excess of ZAR1bn for credible LPs and has offices in Cape Town, London and Jersey. Track record includes VC exits to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin, Uber Eats and SoftBank.