Congrats to our KNF Ventures Portfolio Co Lessonspace for winning 1st prize in the #GESAwards Unboxing School Special Track supporting the entrance of education into the Digital Age! 🍾

End of a fantastic Knife Capital 🔪 VC year! Invested in many early-stage Co’s; Launched a female-led Seed Fund Grindstone-Ventures; Closed out on 2nd s12J Series-A Fund KNF Ventures-II; First Close of our Series-B Fund w IFC & MIC plus some exits! Tx Collaborators! 🙏🏻🍾

Our latest addition in growing the Knife Capital 🔪 investment team: Welcome to Lu Chopera! Look fwd to working with you and having your positive energy in the office. 🍾

Fantastic to get the year going with an investment in Wamly to facilitate the job creation process! One of our smoothest due diligences, boding well for the growth journey ahead with this amazing team. 🍾 #HRtech KNF Ventures. ventureburn.com/2022/01/hr-sof…

Found this gem from 2008 when @juliafourie, Eben & I developed “The Quick Guide to Venture Capital in South Africa” at HBD. Back then it was pretty much only us, Invenfin, 4Di Capital starting & HP Ventures. Great that if we had to publish one today it would be ‘Not so Quick’…

Such an interesting #Podcast Series by Disrupt Africa with views from different Investors in the #African VC Space to gain a better understanding of what #venturecapital in Africa actually is, how it works, and what its dynamics are. Have a listen: soundcloud.com/disruptafricap…

One of our KNF Ventures Portfolio Co’s PharmaScout doing some great work in the Pharmaceutical value chain. 💉 Other verticals loading…

3rd episode of Disrupt Africa #Podcast Series with views from different Investors in the #African VC Space. 'Founder-Friendly' Investors, Value-add, Expectations post-funding, Governance, Scale and doing a DD on Investors. Have a listen: soundcloud.app.goo.gl/bQj5VpHvY4cpC9…

Speaker Announcement! We are excited to have Keet van Zyl, as a speaker at the Viva @AfricArena Event on 14 June at STATION F, in Paris, France. Super Early Bird Tickets - bit.ly/3ONZSBp Startups can apply HERE- bit.ly/3ynUJdu #AfricArena2022 #VivaAfricArena

Always great to present our Grindstone #FindMakeGrowRealise Early Stage Investment Workshop to a new crop of #Startups! Hosting the shortlist of 45 co's today across CTN and Jozi to spend some time with inspiring entrepreneurs in selecting the final Cohorts 10 & 11. #FMGR

In 2017, while raising our Knife Capital 🔪 VC Fund II, a US investor told us that “Tech in Africa is an Oxymoron”… Knife already exited 3 African Tech business to Visa, GE & Garmin at that stage. The growth of Africa’s Tech Ecosystem since then has been an inspirational success story!

Very excited to back Mark Fawzy & team to invest alongside great Angel Investors in gym management software Startup: #Octiv Fitness! High-growth, capital efficient, recurring revenue SaaS business with clients in 27 countries already. Funding will accelerate global expansion. 🍾

Founder Mark Fawzy adding the #Octiv Fitness logo to the Knife Capital 🔪 #VentureCapital Investment Portfolio wall among some other SA growth co greats! 🍾 itweb.co.za/amp/content/8O…

Awesome addition to our Grindstone-Ventures investment portfolio of female-owned #Startups: EdTech co Play Sense 2 to 4 offering play-based learning. 🍾 Meg Faure CY disrupt-africa.com/2023/05/24/sa-…

Epic @Knifecap #Jozi investor event last week with an overview of the Macro VC environment, Portfolio Review, Learnings shared by some of our founders, and eking out Exits in a down market. Doing it again in #CapeTown this week!

I love the smell of a #VentureCapital Exit in the morning… 😉🍾🚀

Another meaningful African #venturecapital exit! US based Ticketmaster expands its presence in #Africa with the acquisition of Quicket South Africa – a major player in Africa’s general admission event & festival ticketing. A fantastic outcome! 🎟🍾 Read More >> livenationentertainment.com/2024/07/ticket…

Another one for the Knife Capital 🔪 #VentureCapital Exit wall as Quicket South Africa is acquired by world’s leading ticket marketplace Ticketmaster to expand its presence across #Africa! 🍾 disruptafrica.com/2024/07/25/sas…