Paper Plane Ventures

https://www.paperplane.ventures/

Last activity: 20.05.2020

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United States, Wisconsin, Johannesburg

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May 20, 2020	Naspers Foundry to invest R100m in SA’s Aerobotics	Tech giant Naspers has announced today that it will invest R100-million in SA aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics, through its early-stage business funding initiative Naspers Foundry. The investment is pending approval by local regula...
Feb 21, 2020	Amsterdam-Based VC Fund Buys Stake In SA’s Centbee	Jan Smit, co-founder of Two Hop Ventures and Angus Brown, co-founder of Centbee Amsterdam-based venture capital fund Two Hop Ventures has announced that it has taken a stake in Johannesburg-based Bitcoin SV (BSV) wallet and merchant payment...
Feb 21, 2020	Dutch VC fund takes a stake in SA’s Centbee after Paper Plane Ventures exits startup	UPDATE (21 February): An earlier version of this story had it that Dutch venture capital (VC) company Two Hop Ventures had acquired SA VC Paper Plane Ventures — when in fact it had only acquired the stake that the SA VC had held in Centbee....
Feb 21, 2020	Amsterdam-Based VC Fund Buys Stake In SA’s Centbee	Jan Smit, co-founder of Two Hop Ventures and Angus Brown, co-founder of Centbee
Feb 21, 2020	Dutch VC fund takes a stake in SA’s Centbee after Paper Plane Ventures exits startup	UPDATE (21 February): An earlier version of this story had it that Dutch venture capital (VC) company Two Hop Ventures had acquired SA VC Paper Plane Ventures — when in fact it had only acquired the stake that the SA VC had held in Centbee....
Jan 3, 2020	Eight SA startups to keep an eye on in 2020	A number of tech startups featured in news headlines last year. Ventureburn has picked eight that we think readers should follow closely in 2020. They include a cloud-based software for first responders that is hitting it big in the US, SA...
Jan 3, 2020	Eight SA startups to keep an eye on in 2020	A number of tech startups featured in news headlines last year. Ventureburn has picked eight that we think readers should follow closely in 2020. They include a cloud-based software for first responders that is hitting it big in the US, SA’...
Dec 20, 2019	Are these SA’s 11 biggest disclosed VC deals in 2019? [Updated]	UPDATE (20 and 23 December): This article was updated to correctly state that SweepSouth’s R30-million raise from Naspers Foundry was part of a R60-million round closed in October. We have also removed the R500k Vollar deal which was actual...
Dec 20, 2019	Are these SA’s 11 biggest disclosed VC deals in 2019? [Updated]	UPDATE (20 and 23 December): This article was updated to correctly state that SweepSouth’s R30-million raise from Naspers Foundry was part of a R60-million round closed in October. We have also removed the R500k Vollar deal which was actual...
Jul 18, 2019	Fintech accounts for over a third of SA tech startup investments in 2019 so far	Over a third of the over R500-million rand in venture capital (VC) investments directed to SA tech startups so far this year, has gone to startups in the fintech sector, reveal new figures compiled by Ventureburn on disclosed deals. Ventur...
Jul 18, 2019	Fintech accounts for over a third of SA tech startup investments in 2019 so far	Over a third of the over R500-million rand in venture capital (VC) investments directed to SA tech startups so far this year, has gone to startups in the fintech sector, reveal new figures compiled by Ventureburn on disclosed deals. Venture...
Jul 16, 2019	Are these SA’s 10 biggest disclosed VC deals so far in 2019? [Updated]	UPDATE (18 July and 23 December 2019): The list and figures have been updated to take into consideration deals in the crypto sector that were unintentionally excluded in the initial version of this article. We have also removed the R500k V...
Jul 16, 2019	Are these SA’s 10 biggest disclosed VC deals so far in 2019? [Updated]	UPDATE (18 July and 23 December 2019): The list and figures have been updated to take into consideration deals in the crypto sector that were unintentionally excluded in the initial version of this article. We have also removed the R500k Vo...
Mar 26, 2019	Revealed – SA investor Paper Plane Ventures behind these big tech names	Meet Stuart van der Veen. Van der Veen last month took up a position as chief platform officer of aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics. But what a lot of those in the tech scene don’t know is that he helped found a venture capital firm...
Mar 26, 2019	Revealed – SA investor Paper Plane Ventures behind these big tech names	Meet Stuart van der Veen. Van der Veen last month took up a position as chief platform officer of aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics. But what a lot of those in the tech scene don’t know is that he helped found a venture capital firm ...
Feb 27, 2019	SA startup Aerobotics secures R29m in funding from Paper Plane Ventures	SA aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics announced this evening that it has received R29-million ($2-million) from local venture capital (VC) company Paper Plane Ventures in its latest round of funding. Aerobotics’ various software produ...
Feb 27, 2019	SA startup Aerobotics secures R29m in funding from Paper Plane Ventures	SA aerial-data analytics startup Aerobotics announced this evening that it has received R29-million ($2-million) from local venture capital (VC) company Paper Plane Ventures in its latest round of funding. Aerobotics’ various software prod...

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Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Paper Plane Ventures, among them “Naspers Foundry to invest R100m in SA’s Aerobotics” (May 20, 2020) and “Amsterdam-Based VC Fund Buys Stake In SA’s Centbee” (Feb 21, 2020).

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