Knife Capital

"KnifeCap is a Southern African growth equity fund manager focusing on technology-enabled ventures for a sustainable impact on innovation, job creation and growth.

What we do

HBD VENTURE CAPITAL KnifeCap manages HBD Venture Capital's South African portfolio of investments. HBD VC is a South African Venture Capital Fund founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2000. HBD (an acronym for "Here Be Dragons" - a term used in ancient times to mark unchartered territories on maps) offered growth capital to a range of early stage businesses. The fund is now fully invested and its current focus is on growing its investments to achieve successful exits.

KNIFE CAPITAL GROWTH EQUITY FUND KnifeCap is currently in the process of raising a Growth Equity Fund with first closing of between R100m and R150m. The investment targets in need of expansion capital will have existing revenue flow and a verifiable customer base, matched by significant market potential. Investment size will range between R10m and R30m per first round investment. For more information on participating as a Limited Partner contact us.

KNIFE KNOWLEDGE KnifeCap provides consulting, training and business acceleration services to high-growth early-stage ventures in Southern Africa. We are committed to creating African success stories and filling critical gaps in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. The team is deeply involved in skills-, technology- and knowledge transfer initiatives to groom skilled entrepreneurs as the future leadership class of Africa – a new generation of role models.

FIND-MAKE-GROW-REALISE KnifeCap partnered with the UCT Graduate School of Business to present an Executive Education Programme:
Find - Make - Grow - Realise: Investing in early-stage growth companies. This participative, case-study-driven course is designed to provide investors and entrepreneurs with a deep understanding of the high-growth investment process and is presented periodically in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

GRINDSTONE ACCELERATOR The Grindstone Accelerator is a new structured acceleration initiative that will assist 50 high-growth technology-enabled companies to become sustainable and fundable. This will be done via a range of services designed to build a foundation for growth, create relevant business networks and enable these companies to take advantage of market access opportunities.
For more information or to apply for the programme, click here

BIZSPARK The KnifeCap/ BizSpark programme is a collaboration with Microsoft where we aim to assist local startups through the provision of a growth gap analysis, development tools and business support. To qualify for BizSpark in SA, a startup must be developing software or apps; be privately held; generating less than R5 million in annual revenue; and be less than 5 years old. Start your application process here."

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