Kalon Venture Partners
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Kalon Venture Partners

https://www.kalonvp.com
Last activity: 08.01.2025
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Through Section 12J Venture Capital Companies, such as Kalon Venture Partners, the South African government aims to stimulate the economy and promote investment in small and medium-sized businesses, whilst providing tax benefits to investors. The tax relief is potentially 45% for individuals and trusts and 28% for companies, which mitigates the investment risk and significantly enhances the potential return. Kalon Venture Partners is targeting returns of more than 30% per annum and a minimum of five times the money invested over five to seven-years.

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.

Our overriding strategy is to provide growth capital and acquire a minority stake in high growth innovative digital technology companies. We assist 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.
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Location: United States, Wisconsin, Johannesburg
Employees: 1-10
Phone:+27 10 140 4939
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: IPO

Portfolio 12

DateNameWebsiteTotal RaisedLocation
01.10.2022Talk360talk360.com$16.36MNetherland...
10.05.2022GoMetrogometroapp.com$12.44MUnited Kin...
03.04.2020Mobizmobiz.co.za$1M-
-Sendmarcsendmarc.co.za$7M-
-Snaptsnapt.net$4MSouth Afri...
-iXperienceixperience.co$2.5M-
-SnapnSavesnapnsave.co.za$1MSouth Afri...
-FinChatBotfinchatbot.com--
-SMEasysmeasy.co.za-South Afri...
-Ozowozow.com$48MSouth Afri...
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08.01.2025Kalon invests in visionAi visionAI, a leader in artificial intelligence and computer vision solutions, has announced an investment from Kalon Venture Partners. This funding will fuel visionAI’s growth as it continues to transform not only the manufacturing and supp...
01.12.2023GoMetro secures £9 Million funding from Zenobe
26.11.2023-
11.03.2023Disrupt Africa launches monthly VC-focused podcast series
11.02.2023Sendmarc nabs $7M to offer email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation
23.01.2023Flow Secures $4.5 million Investment to Enable the Global Property Industry
21.10.2022South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing
01.10.2022South African calling app start-up Talk360 raises $4m
01.10.2022Carscan – Local Tech Start Up wins big at NASSCOM AI Gamechangers
-SnapnSave raises capital from Vunani
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04.04.2023TCS | Kalon’s Clive Butkow on the state of the VC nationClive Butkow Clive Butkow is one of South Africa’s leading experts on venture capital investment in technology start-ups. The founder and CEO of Kalon Venture Partners joins Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral Show (TCS) to talk about why the ...
15.12.2022Looking back at SA VC activity in 2022 and what 2023 will bring TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report Success!According to the venture capital tracking publication Africa: The Big Deal, Africa was the only continent to record a positive growth venture capital deal value in 2022. However, Nigeria and South Africa, the continent’s two biggest VC mark...
10.05.2021Cape Town edtech iXperience secures $2.5-millionCape Town-based edtech company iXperience has secured $2.5-million in a Series A funding round led by Kalon Venture Partners and Caleo Private Equity. iXperience has secured $2.5-million in a Series A funding round According to reports, iXp...
10.05.2021Cape Town edtech iXperience secures $2.5-millionCape Town-based edtech company iXperience has secured $2.5-million in a Series A funding round led by Kalon Venture Partners and Caleo Private Equity. iXperience has secured $2.5-million in a Series A funding round According to reports, i...
03.02.2021Kalon Venture Partners opens investment into 12J fundJohannesburg-based Kalon Venture Partners, a registered Section 12J Venture Capital Company, has announced that it is open for investment into its second fund. Kalon Venture Partners is open for investment into its second Section12J fund In...
03.02.2021Kalon Venture Partners opens investment into 12J fundJohannesburg-based Kalon Venture Partners, a registered Section 12J Venture Capital Company, has announced that it is open for investment into its second fund. Kalon Venture Partners is open for investment into its second Section12J fund ...
13.11.2020Local AI fintech startup secures $1.6-million investmentJohannesburg-based AI fintech startup, FinChatBot has secured $1.6-million from Saviu Ventures, a French investment holding company that focuses on African startups; Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital and leading South African venture ...
13.11.2020Local AI fintech startup secures $1.6-million investmentJohannesburg-based AI fintech startup, FinChatBot has secured $1.6-million from Saviu Ventures, a French investment holding company that focuses on African startups; Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital and leading South African venture ...
19.10.2020South African auto-tech startup Carscan raises undisclosed fund to scale innovative technologyJohannesburg: South African auto-tech startup Carscan has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to help it scale its innovative technology. Carscan is an augmented reality (AR) app with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) that creates a...
15.10.2020Carscan secures funding from leading SA VC investorsA cutting-edge South African tech startup, Carscan, has secured an undisclosed amount of investment funding from Kalon Venture Partners, IDF Capital, and a private investor. Carscan has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Kalon V...
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