We are comfortable to partner early when business models are not completely clear or proven. The path to growth is often murky and subject to multiple pivots. We want to work with passionate founders to solve problems, disrupt markets and create great businesses.
Deus Brands promotes modern, authentic, and genuine African Luxury based on creative risk-taking and sincerity that inspires dreams and emotions. This conception of African Luxury is at the heart of our business model and organization. By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Deus Brands enables its brands to set new limits in terms of their creative expression. We capture these beliefs in our signature: Empowering Imagination. And it is what drives our ambition: to be the world’s most influential African Luxury CPG group.
Yoco is an African technology company. Yoco creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to get paid and be more successful. Every day, we break down barriers and create access so that more businesses can participate in the economy and thrive.
Founded in 2019 by Fabricio Dos Santos in Mozambique, M’bora (“let’sGo!”) is an e-hailing app that uses taxis and tuktuks transporting passengers all over Maputo. Mbora’s short term strategy is to expand across Mozambique, and then to smaller cities in many southern African countries including South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia.
S'More is a dating app developed by Something More Inc. It is considered to be an anti-superficial dating app. Profile photos are revealed over time only after a person has indicated interested in a person via interacting with their profile.
TruID is an open banking platform that leverages the use of APIs to access consumers’ transaction data, which is then further analysed in their categorisation engine to generate insights for B2B partners on their platform.
Founded by Jordan Wainer. Admyt is a ticketless parking app that utilises license plate recognition technology to allow users to drive in and out of malls without having to touch a single parking ticket at the same price as they would have paid anyway. This has the added benefit of convenience for users, and cost savings and data analytics for landlords which also include office and mall owners. Admyt operates in South Africa, Poland and the UK.
The Qube is a first of its kind venue and community for creative professionals to connect and collaborate. A members-only sanctuary for London’s most inspired musicians, artists, managers, labels, and creators.
Founded by Bronwynne and Stuart Stoddart. Ikue is an AI-led software platform that allows EM telcom operators to build a complete customer profile from multiple data sources to enable advanced personalisation for all marketing activities – thereby potentially boosting ARPUs and reducing customer churn.
Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Akiba’s vision is to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.
CloudOne, founded in 2014, is a private company registered in South Africa that provides various point-of-sale (POS), payment and digital marketing solutions predominantly in Southern Africa with an eye to expanding to the rest of Africa, Latin America, and South East Asia.
Thakadu’s mission is to advance Africa’s contribution to cleaner mobility and energy storage systems by creating a secure and responsible source of high-purity battery materials for the global market. Thakadu believes that investing in value addition of battery raw materials at source is not only developmental but creates logistics and supply efficiencies that are a net positive for a greener future.
Seriti Films is a commercials, film and television production company that represents some of the industries finest creative talents. It was established in 2017 by Thabang Moleya, Kutlwano Ditsele and Leanne Kumalo. The group came together with the vision of creating a production house which would bring together film makers into a collective home, and create story-led content that has an authentic South African signature. Seriti Films is one of the leading production houses in South Africa, synonymous for creating dynamic creative teams, an essential ingredient for its success in the industry.
Matric Live is a multifunctional education app that is reinventing the way pupils learn by making learning contextual, visual and not just theoretical. It supports over 16 subjects and it is currently free as pupils are writing their exams.
Bettr Bank, founded in 2015, is a FinTech neobank looking to launch an open banking platform that aims to develop a multi-sided financial ecosystem by collaborating with fintech partners to provide an alternative banking solution; catering to the new-age needs of the Gen Z and Millennial demographics in local and African markets.