Charles Freedman

simple.Capital makes end-to-end corporate finance and early-stage investing simple. Advisory: Offer comprehensive corporate finance services to a diverse clientele, including prominent publicly traded companies in the United States and South Africa, as well as innovative early-stage technology startups. To date, we have served 30+ global clients across South Africa, the UK, the US, and the Netherlands. Early-Stage Investment: Successfully invested in 25 portfolio companies, providing both equity and debt investment opportunities. Corporate VC: Manage outsourced Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) functions for both listed and private corporations.

Launch Africa Ventures is a frontier Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed to Series A bridge funding investment landscape in Africa. We invest in B2B and B2B2C early-stage, technology-driven startups with strong management teams solving the most meaningful problems on the continent. Our objective is to provide funding in that critical investment phase of a startup to enable scale and growth while creating a sustainable ecosystem.

simple.Capital makes end-to-end corporate finance and early-stage investing simple. Advisory: Offer comprehensive corporate finance services to a diverse clientele, including prominent publicly traded companies in the United States and South Africa, as well as innovative early-stage technology startups. To date, we have served 30+ global clients across South Africa, the UK, the US, and the Netherlands. Early-Stage Investment: Successfully invested in 25 portfolio companies, providing both equity and debt investment opportunities. Corporate VC: Manage outsourced Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) functions for both listed and private corporations.

Launch Africa Ventures is a frontier Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed to Series A bridge funding investment landscape in Africa. We invest in B2B and B2B2C early-stage, technology-driven startups with strong management teams solving the most meaningful problems on the continent. Our objective is to provide funding in that critical investment phase of a startup to enable scale and growth while creating a sustainable ecosystem.

54 Collective is a leading venture capital firm revolutionising investment and scaling idea to early-stage ventures throughout Africa. As a commercial and impact fund, our catalytic capital provides founders with the tailored funding they need to scale while providing investors with outstanding returns. The catalytic capital our founders receive is combined with value-add support through our Venture Success Platform, enabling entrepreneurs to build without boundaries as they solve Africa’s greatest challenges. Vital to our mission is fostering gender inclusion through the founders and ventures we support, allowing them to be inclusive in their product and service design. Media queries: press@54collective.vc

We offer a wide-range of consulting services in the areas of business feasibility assessment, business leadership development, team building, organizational reviews, re-structuring, development and re-engineering, business planning and strategic planning, market research, development and growth, effective and optimal operational management. Championing Private Sector Growth