Naspers

Naspers, established in 1915, is a South Africa-based global internet group operating in over 120 countries. It invests in and builds companies that empower people and enrich communities, focusing on markets with long-term growth potential. Naspers' portfolio spans various sectors such as online classifieds, food delivery, payments, travel, education, health, and social and internet platforms. It has invested in, acquired, or built companies like Azos, PharmEasy, ElasticRun, Alwans, and Vegrow, among others, which provide products and services used by people worldwide.

Fabricio Bloisi

Group Chief Executive Director and Executive Director

Phuti Mahanyele

CEO, South Africa

Lydia Ventura Paterson

CFO, OLX Group

Antonie Roux

CEO

Ervin Tu

Board Member and President

Past deals in South Africa

Takealot.com

Acquisition in 2018
Takealot.com is one of South Africa's largest online retailers, founded in 2011. The platform offers over nine million products across 17 categories, including games, music, books, and various lifestyle items such as home and kitchen goods, baby products, health and beauty items, and sports equipment. Committed to enhancing customer experience, Takealot.com focuses on a customer-centric approach, ensuring that users have a seamless shopping journey from browsing to delivery. The company also provides its own logistics services, enabling secure home delivery of purchased items. Through its dedication to customer satisfaction, Takealot.com aims to establish itself as the leading online shopping destination in Africa.

Takealot.com

Venture Round in 2017
Takealot.com is one of South Africa's largest online retailers, founded in 2011. The platform offers over nine million products across 17 categories, including games, music, books, and various lifestyle items such as home and kitchen goods, baby products, health and beauty items, and sports equipment. Committed to enhancing customer experience, Takealot.com focuses on a customer-centric approach, ensuring that users have a seamless shopping journey from browsing to delivery. The company also provides its own logistics services, enabling secure home delivery of purchased items. Through its dedication to customer satisfaction, Takealot.com aims to establish itself as the leading online shopping destination in Africa.

Picup Technologies

Series A in 2016
Picup Technologies is a prominent on-demand logistics provider in South Africa, specializing in the delivery of documents, packages, parcels, and other items. With over 5,000 active delivery agents, the company caters to the expanding e-commerce and retail sectors in the region. Picup's platform enhances delivery efficiency by offering features such as load allocation, real-time tracking, and proof of delivery, along with automated payment processing. This enables businesses and transporters to optimize their planning without the need to account for fluctuating demand periods, streamlining the last-mile delivery process significantly.

M4Jam

Private Equity Round in 2015
M4Jam is a micro jobbing platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that facilitates connections between businesses and local communities. By leveraging gig technology, M4Jam enables brands, start-ups, small and medium enterprises, large corporations, non-governmental organizations, and government entities to engage with a diverse workforce on demand. The platform empowers users to complete various tasks and, in return, receive rewards, thereby creating a mutually beneficial relationship. With a focus on uplifting communities and providing businesses with access to informal markets, M4Jam plays a pivotal role in helping organizations remain agile and relevant in a rapidly changing environment.

Takealot.com

Venture Round in 2015
Takealot.com is one of South Africa's largest online retailers, founded in 2011. The platform offers over nine million products across 17 categories, including games, music, books, and various lifestyle items such as home and kitchen goods, baby products, health and beauty items, and sports equipment. Committed to enhancing customer experience, Takealot.com focuses on a customer-centric approach, ensuring that users have a seamless shopping journey from browsing to delivery. The company also provides its own logistics services, enabling secure home delivery of purchased items. Through its dedication to customer satisfaction, Takealot.com aims to establish itself as the leading online shopping destination in Africa.

Payprop

Private Equity Round in 2013
PayProp is a cloud-based payment platform designed for the property management industry, focusing on streamlining rental payment processes. It automates the collection of tenant payments and ensures accurate disbursements to property agents, landlords, and contractors, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and reducing administrative costs. By leveraging advanced technology, PayProp facilitates secure transactions and provides comprehensive transactional control, which is crucial for regulatory compliance in the rental market. The platform is currently operational in South Africa and the United Kingdom, supporting client agencies in managing residential lettings effectively. Additionally, PayProp offers tenant risk management tools to further assist property managers in mitigating potential risks associated with rentals.

SuperSport

Private Equity Round in 2007
SuperSport funds, produces, and and broadcasts sporting content across the African continent on the DStv platform. It produces ten channels for the DStv platform as well as a number of channels for reception on handheld services. The SuperSport website streams highlights. SuperSport’s array of live coverage includes the major World Cup tournaments, the Olympic Games, the golf majors, the tennis Grand Slam events, F1, and various other major and local leagues of sports such as rugby, cricket, golf, tennis, motorsport, cycling, aquatics, athletics, and boxing. SuperSport is based in Randburg, Johannesburg. Its holding company is MultiChoice and its ultimate parent company is Naspers, a broad-based multi-national media group.
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