Kalon Venture Partners Seeks To Invest In High Growth Companies
Kalon Venture Partners Seeks To Invest In High Growth Companies. Kalon Venture Partners invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth technology companies, with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. Kalon Venture Partners invests growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but still high-risk ventures in expanding activity such as creating additional traction in South Africa, launching into Africa and then foreign markets, as well as creating new product / technology lines.
Kalon Venture Partners is not just about funding and smart capital. It’s about smart returns. It believes its companies will achieve great returns if they create as much non-financial as financial value. It is led by the most dynamic and well-experienced team in the SA tech VC space with a combined 200 years of experience. The company invests in post-revenue start-ups, not necessarily post-profit ventures. Its disruptive tech funds invests in entrepreneurs solving African problems with the potential to scale into global markets. It focuses on providing smart capital as well as on delivering smart returns.
The company’s overriding strategy is to provide growth capital and acquire a minority stake in high growth innovative digital technology companies. It assists these companies with hands on involvement, to help build the businesses into assets of value and exit the business to trade buyers or through an IPO (a buy to flip strategy).
Kalon Venture Partners will invest most of its capital in support of African entrepreneurs who are looking for growth capital to scale their businesses, which are disrupting traditional industries, e.g. banking, insurance, retail, media and entertainment.
It has a highly experienced team to conduct detailed due diligences of potential investments to help reduce the business risk. The outcome of the DD will be presented to its Investment Committee for a decision. These companies will most likely operate initially in South Africa with the intention to scale them to Africa and globally. It targets potential returns of a minimum of 5X money (IRR > 30%) on each investment.
