Kalon Venture Partners

Kalon Venture Partners invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth technology companies, with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers.

Butkow, Clive

Founder and CEO

15 past transactions

GoMetro

Seed Round in 2022
GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to the challenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.

Carscan

Venture Round in 2022
Carscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.

iXperience

Series A in 2021
The world is changing at an exponential rate and current education systems are not keeping up. At iX, we believe that in the next century, learning won’t just be concentrated on youth, but interwoven throughout a person’s life as they transition across careers and life priorities. Our mission is to build transformational learning experiences that close this gap and give our students the best possible life. iX's vision is to build a lifelong learning brand with a range of future-focused programs and services. Our current focus is on creating career development programs for high schoolers, university students, professionals, and executives, and partnering with institutions to transform how the world prepares students for the future of work.

Carscan

Seed Round in 2020
Carscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.

Mobiz

Venture Round in 2020
Mobiz is a saas mobile marketing platform that connects brands with their customers. They generate text links with content, landing pages, and deliver them through SMS's broad reach. They specialize in text marketing services. They also provide tools for post-click experiences through templates and MMS campaigns.

Flow

Seed Round in 2020
Flow is a property marketing platform that automates social media marketing for estate agents and property developers. Flow takes hundreds of property listings and agent profiles and creates hundreds of ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google instantly and automatically, driving leads straight to agents' phones. Visit https://flowliving.com.

Ozow

Series A in 2019
Ozow is the future of payment as we know it. An oh-so (or Ozow) easy, automated and ultra-secure pay-by-bank solution that helps customers pay in just a few seconds, merchants can initiate Ozow payments through a variety of payment platforms, such as SMS, eCommerce, eBilling, QR Code, and instore Point-of-Sale (POS). Through Ozow’s precise and secure system (that reduces the risk of charge-backs), merchants get real-time payments with instant transaction notifications and automated bank reconciliations. As no card is required for payment, their products are also more widely available, resulting in fewer abandoned carts, increased sales, and more happy customers. Furthermore, merchants enjoy transaction fees as low as 1,5%, with no monthly costs, setup fees, or minimum charges, enabling them to save their money. As an added bonus, merchants processing up to R1m per month can use Ozow for free in their first year, no strings attached. Ozow is committed to financial inclusion on a continent where many people are disenfranchised by a lack of payments options. Furthermore, Ozow is committed to making it affordable for smaller businesses to take their trade to a wider audience, and to ensure that if traditional payment methods are unavailable, merchants don’t suffer. Ozow is bringing commerce to a wider audience, promoting financial inclusion, and innovating for our customers. Paying with us is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow trusted!

Flow

Series A in 2019
Flow is a property marketing platform that automates social media marketing for estate agents and property developers. Flow takes hundreds of property listings and agent profiles and creates hundreds of ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google instantly and automatically, driving leads straight to agents' phones. Visit https://flowliving.com.

FCB.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2018
FCB.ai builds the conversational AI infrastructure to power the financial industry

SNAPnSAVE

Venture Round in 2018
SNAPnSAVE is a shopping app that gives you cash back when you shop in-store. No paper coupons, no plastic cards and no loyalty points. Just real cash back on items that you buy everyday, leaving you with more to spend on the things you want. Ka ching!

Ozow

Seed Round in 2017
Ozow is the future of payment as we know it. An oh-so (or Ozow) easy, automated and ultra-secure pay-by-bank solution that helps customers pay in just a few seconds, merchants can initiate Ozow payments through a variety of payment platforms, such as SMS, eCommerce, eBilling, QR Code, and instore Point-of-Sale (POS). Through Ozow’s precise and secure system (that reduces the risk of charge-backs), merchants get real-time payments with instant transaction notifications and automated bank reconciliations. As no card is required for payment, their products are also more widely available, resulting in fewer abandoned carts, increased sales, and more happy customers. Furthermore, merchants enjoy transaction fees as low as 1,5%, with no monthly costs, setup fees, or minimum charges, enabling them to save their money. As an added bonus, merchants processing up to R1m per month can use Ozow for free in their first year, no strings attached. Ozow is committed to financial inclusion on a continent where many people are disenfranchised by a lack of payments options. Furthermore, Ozow is committed to making it affordable for smaller businesses to take their trade to a wider audience, and to ensure that if traditional payment methods are unavailable, merchants don’t suffer. Ozow is bringing commerce to a wider audience, promoting financial inclusion, and innovating for our customers. Paying with us is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow trusted!

The Sun Exchange

Seed Round in 2017
The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buy remotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.

SNAPnSAVE

Seed Round in 2017
SNAPnSAVE is a shopping app that gives you cash back when you shop in-store. No paper coupons, no plastic cards and no loyalty points. Just real cash back on items that you buy everyday, leaving you with more to spend on the things you want. Ka ching!
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