Alphawave Group

Alphawave Group is a venture capital firm based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, established in 1995. The firm focuses on investing in innovative technology businesses that have the potential for international scalability. With a portfolio of 16 companies, Alphawave Group employs over 375 individuals, including more than 175 engineers and developers. The firm's investment strategy emphasizes aligning and supporting talented individuals to foster commercial ideas tailored to their expertise. By sharing profits and experience from successful ventures, Alphawave Group aids in the incubation and growth of emerging businesses. The firm has a proven track record of expanding internationally, with over 50% of its portfolio companies successfully selling products abroad.

Frans Meyer Ph.D

Co-Founder, CEO and Board Member

Kgotso Schoeman

Non - Executive Director

19 past transactions

Play AI

Seed Round in 2024
Play AI develops a blockchain-based platform designed to create a modular chain for artificial intelligence in gaming. The platform incentivizes players, validates data through nodes, and facilitates gaming dataset markets, enabling game creators to deploy advanced AI, allowing players to monetize their gameplay, and enhancing overall gaming experiences.

Callbi

Series A in 2024
Callbi is a provider of a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solution specializing in speech analytics for contact centers. The company’s software is designed to monitor and analyze customer calls, allowing organizations to ensure compliance and assess sales or collection effectiveness. By delivering insights into operational efficiencies, Callbi assists clients in maximizing revenue, reducing costs, and mitigating risks, ultimately improving overall effectiveness in their operations.

Hawktivity

Seed Round in 2024
Hawktivity manufactures computer vision sensors that provide real-time insights into workers' and customers' behavior. It specializes in interpreting visual information from images and videos using AI technology, helping businesses optimize staffing, improve productivity, and enhance customer satisfaction across various industries.

ByteFuse

Seed Round in 2023
ByteFuse is a provider of AI-based research and development services focused on simplifying search and optimization processes. The company offers a range of solutions, including APIs and deployment infrastructure that facilitate rapid prototyping and reduce development cycle costs. ByteFuse specializes in multimedia recommendations, transport solutions, metadata extraction, and a universal encoder, along with model optimization. By leveraging these capabilities, ByteFuse enables clients to enhance product development, improve customer experiences, and generate actionable insights.

Indiagold

Series A in 2022
Indiagold offers innovative gold-backed financial services, focusing on digitizing credit and investments. It provides a comprehensive suite of services, including instant gold loans with doorstep pick-up and delivery, enabling customers in India to access convenient and secure financial products.

Callbi

Seed Round in 2022
Callbi is a provider of a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solution specializing in speech analytics for contact centers. The company’s software is designed to monitor and analyze customer calls, allowing organizations to ensure compliance and assess sales or collection effectiveness. By delivering insights into operational efficiencies, Callbi assists clients in maximizing revenue, reducing costs, and mitigating risks, ultimately improving overall effectiveness in their operations.

Cerebras Systems

Series F in 2021
Cerebras Systems Inc. is a technology company that specializes in manufacturing artificial intelligence chips specifically designed for deep learning applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the company is dedicated to creating advanced computing systems that significantly accelerate deep learning tasks. By integrating expertise in computer architecture with machine learning, Cerebras develops innovative technologies that aim to enhance AI performance and transform the landscape of artificial intelligence. Through its unique design principles, the company seeks to push the boundaries of what is possible in AI computing.

VerSe Innovation

Venture Round in 2020
VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Skynamo

Series A in 2020
Skynamo, established in 2012, specializes in cloud-based field sales management software and mobile applications for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. Its platform facilitates real-time GPS tracking of field sales representatives, optimizes sales processes, and provides insights into customer visits and orders. Skynamo's key features include remote order submission, automated administrative tasks, and mobile capture of customer interactions. The company, headquartered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with additional offices in Johannesburg and the UK, serves sectors such as food and beverage, building materials, and automotive goods. By fostering transparency and trust, Skynamo transforms sales management from micro-management to coaching, and sales representatives from order takers to value-adding consultants.

Neurozone

Seed Round in 2020
Neurozone is a technology company that uses neuroscience and data analytics to enhance leadership performance. It offers a digital platform designed to improve resilience, prevent burnout, and promote adaptive behavior among organizational leaders.

Inrange

Seed Round in 2019
Inrange is a sports and recreation center for golf practice.

Predictive Insights

Seed Round in 2018
Predictive Insights is a South African company specializing in data science. It employs artificial intelligence and machine learning models to accurately forecast current or future behavior of products, markets, or targets.

Saigen

Seed Round in 2018
Saigen is a data science company focused on speech recognition technology tailored to the African context. It develops customizable automatic speech recognition systems that support multiple South African languages and dialects, enabling applications such as call center analytics, product recommendations, churn prediction, and customer profiling. By applying machine learning and linguistic analysis, Saigen helps organizations extract insights from data to improve communication accuracy, compliance, efficiency, and decision-making. The company has collaborated with international partners and has contributed to language technology initiatives for South Africa's official languages. Saigen is headquartered in Hermanus, South Africa.

Grapevine

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Grapevine, stay up to date with the latest Food and Drink specials by getting notified the instant venues post new spontaneous specials, valid for a up to two hours. Grab them before the time runs out!

Polymorph

Seed Round in 2016
Polymorph Systems (Pty) Ltd., founded in 2001 and based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, specializes in creating user-centric mobile and IoT applications. The company focuses on user experience and interface design, native mobile development for iOS and Android, as well as HTML5 and hybrid development. Its expertise extends to machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT technologies, backend development, API design, and integration with legacy systems. By delivering custom software solutions, Polymorph aims to support enterprises in their digital growth and enhance user engagement. As of January 2017, Polymorph operates as a subsidiary of EM Software & Systems-S.A. (Pty) Ltd.

MySidekick

Seed Round in 2015
MySidekick shows you personalised specials at the nearest Malls and notifies you when you arrive !

Sozo Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Sozo Labs specializes in transforming traditional business processes into immersive digital experiences. They offer virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions, along with gamification services to enhance customer engagement.

Skynamo

Seed Round in 2012
Skynamo, established in 2012, specializes in cloud-based field sales management software and mobile applications for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. Its platform facilitates real-time GPS tracking of field sales representatives, optimizes sales processes, and provides insights into customer visits and orders. Skynamo's key features include remote order submission, automated administrative tasks, and mobile capture of customer interactions. The company, headquartered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with additional offices in Johannesburg and the UK, serves sectors such as food and beverage, building materials, and automotive goods. By fostering transparency and trust, Skynamo transforms sales management from micro-management to coaching, and sales representatives from order takers to value-adding consultants.

EMSS

Seed Round in 2002
EMSS specialises in the field of electromagnetic simulation software and services. They develop internationally recognised products and consult to various large enterprises. Their R&D department designs and produces highly specialised RF equipment and antennas.
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