Knife Capital — Seed & Pre-Seed VC Firm ($300K–$2.5M Checks)
Knife Capital is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $300K–$2.5M checks and has 18 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $300K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 18 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $75M
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
Last verified: 2026-05-22
Seed, Pre-Seed
$300K – $2.5M
$75M
18+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Focuses on high-growth African ventures disrupting traditional sectors with tech innovations, including logistics and cloud operations.
How Knife Capital invests
Knife Capital is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS.
Knife Capital typically writes checks of $300K–$2.5M per investment, backed by approximately $75M in assets under management.
Knife Capital has backed 18 companies in our records, including Parcelninja, DataProphet, Quicket.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (18)
Other
Parcelninja
DataProphet
Quicket
Simera Sense
Outsized
Optique
A South African optometry group focused on delivering affordable, digitally-enabled eye care through innovative business models.
Sticitt
A South African-based fintech company dedicated to transforming school payments and promoting healthy financial habits for learners and parents.
Kasha
A digital retail and last-mile distribution platform for access to health and household goods with embedded finance offerings.
Octiv
A complete fitness management software offering, backed by happy-to-help humans; designed to streamline, automate and professionalise the operations of fitness businesses.
InQuba
AI-driven Customer Journey Management software.
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $300K – $2.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Keet van Zyl, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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