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Paper Plane Ventures

VC
Cape Town, South AfricaWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.0M

Portfolio

1+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

A South-Africa focused micro-fund investing in supply chain optimization, agritech, and B2B SaaS innovations.

How Paper Plane Ventures invests

Paper Plane Ventures is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Enterprise, SaaS, AI / ML. It does not invest in Consumer, Media.

Paper Plane Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.

Paper Plane Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including CropChain SA.

Meet the Team

MS

Michael Stannard

Managing Partner

telecom
digital infrastructure
emerging stage SA tech
JV

James van der Westhuizen

Managing Partner

Supply Chain
South Africa
SV

Stuart van der Veen

Founder & CEO

Telecommunications
Technology
Analytics Platforms
Aviation-related Products & Services

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Enterprise
SaaS
AI / ML

Does Not Invest In

Consumer
Media

Portfolio Companies (1)

Other

CR

CropChain SA

Agritech
How to pitch Paper Plane Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Enterprise, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Michael Stannard, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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