Our Investments
Status: Exited
Bloomable is an online marketplace that connects people looking to buy fresh flowers and beautiful gifts to the actual artisans who create them. Previously known as SA Florist, Bloomable was borne out of a passionate commitment to support local florists trying to compete on a larger scale, but sadly didn't have the resources. With a tech marketplace as their online hub, Bloomable has a nationwide gifting and fresh flower delivery connecting over 200 artisans.
Status: Active
Raphta is an award-winning proudly South African Tech Company also backed by IBM and Built Africa Investments. They are a Pan-African pioneer in the research of machine learning and quantum imaging. Raphta specializes in computer vision solutions using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. They have built an autonomous software platform that uses AI, computer vision and sensor fusion with third-party integration. Their proprietary AI platform assists in business infrastructure maintenance by inspecting, securing, monitoring, and managing critical infrastructure.
Status: Active
RecoMed is South Africa’s largest and fastest-growing online healthcare booking platform and marketplace. The company’s online booking platform and the marketplace is its core product, and it has developed white-labelled solutions for, among others, Discovery, Medicross (owned by Netcare) and Clicks
Status: Active
LocumBase is an independent online platform connecting freelance medical professionals and private practices, group practices, medical centres, clinics and hospitals. Enabling simple and easy booking of medical locums for short-term appointments. Locumbase is a Founders Factory Africa Start-up Accelerator Alumni - 2020 Grindstone Accelerator program participant and winner of Grindstone Accelerator 2020/21 cohort - Awarded by Global Brands Magazine for the title of “Innovation in Healthcare Tech & Staffing Solutions - South Africa 2021/22”
Status: Active
Contro is an online prescription and delivery service currently providing sexual health and confidence products. Having gained a deep understanding of the barriers to entry and pain points individuals go through when seeking sexual healthcare services, Contro has built a telehealth platform that fundamentally makes access cost-effective, discreet and easier than ever before. Among other strong backers, they are supported by the i3 fund backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Status: Active
RTech has developed a maths application which enables learners, educators, and the general public to learn maths in a super fun and creatively engaging way. This is done through visualisation techniques and gamification of those abstract concepts most learners find confusing at first. The app uses graphics, animation, and storytelling of relatable day-to-day concepts to create a fun and in-depth approach to learning concepts in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics and finance.