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Keet Van Zyl is listed as High-Growth Venture Investor | Co-Founder at Knife Capital at Knife Capital, based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at knifecap.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Keet Van Zyl.
Keet Van Zyl previously worked as Partner, Co-Founder at Knife Capital and CEO at Knf Ventures. Keet Van Zyl holds Bachelor Of Accountancy (B.Acc), Accounting And Finance from Stellenbosch University.
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Keet has over 20 years of investment experience in private equity, banking and venture capital. He worked at industry-leading companies such as Procter & Gamble, Investec Bank and ‘Here Be Dragons’ (HBD) Venture Capital before co-founding Knife Capital in 2010 to scale African high-growth businesses globally. Knife Capital is a Venture Capital investment manager that leverages Knowledge, Networks and Funding to advance exit-centric business building. Its track record includes VC exits to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin, Uber Eats and SoftBank. Keet is passionate about building the early-stage funding ecosystem across Africa. He is fascinated by the bubbles in Champagne, loves water-skiing and nurtures indigenous trees. He was the first "Extreme Accounting" world champion by injecting the adrenaline rush of accounting into the everyday routine of extreme sports.
Listed skills include Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship, Investments, and 23 others.
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Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
Knife Capital is a pan-African venture capital investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, we accelerate the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife Capital is the incarnation of the SA venture capital.
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
KNF Ventures is a SARS Section 12J Venture Capital Company - enabling qualifying investors to claim amounts invested as a full and permanent deduction from taxable income. By leveraging Knowledge, Networks & Funding, KNF Ventures accelerates the growth of South African innovation-driven SMEs and generate enhanced returns for investors.
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
Grindstone is a growth and funding platform by Knife Capital to assist post-revenue high-growth technology enabled SMEs to accelerate strategy execution. http://www.knifecap.com/grindstone.php
Somerset West, Western Cape, ZA
Stone Three is an industrial IoT that combines expert services with the power of machine learning to help customers increase their productivity and keep their people safer, happier, and healthier.
Nairobi, KE
Kasha provides a digital retail and last-mile distribution platform for pharmaceuticals and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) with a specific product focus on women’s healthcare needs and household items.
Orlando, Florida, US
FlightScope® is a global high-tech company and a true world leader in the development and manufacturing of 3D Doppler Ball Tracking Monitors, Golf Radars & Launch Monitors for sports.
SiMODiSA is a not-for-profit organization that was established as a powerful industry-led initiative to catalyse and amplify entrepreneurship in South Africa.
CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, ZA
Non-Executive Director of Quicket - a scalable pan-African self-service ticketing platform. It allows anyone organising events of all shapes and sizes to deliver a world class ticketing experience to their audience, wherever they may be on the continent. Knife Capital invested in Quicket in 2017 to streamline Quicket’s service offering in the local market.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA
SAVCA Board Member and Chairman of the Venture Capital Sub-Committee. SAVCA is a non-profit industry association, representing 160 members in Southern Africa, who collectively manage more than R170bn in assets. SAVCA promotes Southern African private equity by engaging with regulators and legislators on a range of matters affecting the industry; providing.
Flower Mound, Texas, US
OrderTalk provides online ordering solutions to the restaurant industry. Its proprietary software allows restaurant chains to quickly acquire an online ordering presence on their existing websites and can easily be integrated with point-of-sale systems. In 2017 Uber Eats acquired orderTalk.
Afdawn is a JSE AltX listed micro finance company that changed its vision to become an active investment holding company, acquiring shareholding in entrepreneurial businesses. Afdawn acquired Knife Capital in 2014 to enable the execution of this vision, but in 2017 the Knife Capital team bought the company back in a structured MBO.
AngelHub was established as a Business Angel Investment Group to pool funding, expertise & networks from a diverse range of early-stage Angel Investors for investment in high-growth South African ventures to accelerate growth & create value. The model evolved to an an Angel seed fund. AngelHub Ventures invests into lean startups with disruptive business.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA
CSense provides comprehensive, integrated process performance enhancement products and solutions to the process and manufacturing industry. In April 2011 CSense was acquired by GE Intelligent Platforms.
HBD Venture Capital is a successful South African Venture Capital Fund that was founded by Internet entrepreneur and cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth. Exits include CSense (Analytics Software) to US technology giant: General Electric, and Fundamo (Mobile Financial Services) to VISA and orderTalk (online food ordering software) to Uber Eats. HBD is an acronym.
London, Greater London, GB
Keet played an integral role in establishing Investec Private Bank’s Growth & Acquisition Finance division in Cape Town that structures and funds specialised investment opportunities for owner-managed businesses - specifically focusing on the following: Equity purchases (including the facilitation of BEE transactions); Asset purchases; Management buy-outs.
Keet served as acting head of the Financial Services portfolio for the Southern African Enterprise Development Fund (SAEDF) where he was responsible for structuring, funding and monitoring various private equity funds, banks and other financial institutions in the Southern African region. He was responsible for the performance of 11 Financial Services.
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
As Brand Financial Analyst Keet was responsible for budgeting and profit forecasting and he developed and calculated project economics for new product launches. He was responsible for the highly successful launch of Pantene in South Africa – one of the leading hair care brands in the world. As Product Supply Financial Analyst Keet was responsible for the.
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Keet Van Zyl is listed as High-Growth Venture Investor | Co-Founder at Knife Capital at Knife Capital.
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Keet Van Zyl holds Bachelor Of Accountancy (B.Acc), Accounting And Finance from Stellenbosch University.
Keet Van Zyl is listed with skills including Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship, Investments, Start Ups, Business Strategy, Emerging Markets, and Angel Investing.
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