Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Carel's Conversations, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Hasso Plattner’s African Venture fund was launched in early 2008. In February 2009 I attended the fund’s Emerging Market Africa conference in South Africa. HPVA has invested ZAR80mm of ZAR350mm in 5 companies to date and expect to invest in at least 5 more. HPVA doesn’t disclose investments and shareholding, although they did indicate that [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
I had the distinct pleasure to visit my homeland, South Africa, to attend Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa‘s first conference after forming HPV’s ZAR350mm VC fund in early 2008. Andrea Böhmert, one of HPV Africa’s co-managing partners, invited me to participate on a panel discussing “Local entrepreneurs going international”. The panel consisted of: Herman Heunis – [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
I previously blogged about SynthaSite‘s charismatic CEO, Vinny Lingham (Wow, I see Vinny has been selected as a 2009 Young Global Leader!). SynthaSite seems to be growing by leaps and bounds amid all the bad economic news. On February 17, 2009 Synthasite announced a $20mm in second round funding from Reinet Investments. I received this [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Roelof Frederik Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the most influential VC firms in the world. Sequoia has the highest rating on TheFunded website of 3.9. Here is his bio from the Sequoia website: Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on services and software investments. Prior to joining [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Venture Capital
I’ve mentioned Hasso Plattner a number of times in my blog. He is the colorful co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG. He is also the father of SAP’s client-server 3-tiered product called R/3. This week Hasso Plattner launch HP Ventures Africa (Hasso Plattner — not to be confused with Hewlett Packard) in Cape Town, [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Laurence (Laurie) Olivier, an Atlanta VC and ex-South African, was recently profiled in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Laurie is a partner in Veritas Venture Partners. Veritas has investments in the following Atlanta based companies: Clickfox, CytoDome, and Asankya. Laurie serves on the board of these companies. He is the Chairman of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce [...]
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