Knife Capital

Summary

Knife Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The venture was found in Africa in South Africa. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cape Town.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are African Infrastructure Investment Managers.

This organization was formed by Eben van Heerden, Keet van Zyl. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as EdTech, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Africa. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clicks2Customers, Fundamo (Proprietary).

When the investment is from Knife Capital the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Knife Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 63 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.