# Anglo American

> Anglo American is a VC fund in Johannesburg backing Energy and Mining. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/anglo-american
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/angloamerican
- Website: http://www.angloamerican.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angloamerican

Anglo American is a VC fund in Johannesburg focused on Energy and Mining. Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies, is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. Their portfolio of mining businesses meets our customers' changing needs and spans bulk commodities – iron ore and manganese, metallurgical coal and thermal coal; base metals and minerals –copper, nickel, niobium, and phosphates; and precious metals and minerals – in which they are a global leader in both platinum and diamonds.Anglo American plc operates in the mining industry. The company’s portfolio of mining assets includes precious, base, and bulk commodities. Business The company’s mining businesses are Platinum, Diamonds, Base Metals, Iron Ore (Ferrous Metals), and Coal. It has operations in approximately 45 countries. Platinum The company mines, processes and refines platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and osmium). All of Anglo Platinum’s operations are located in South Africa. Anglo Platinum wholly owns five mining operations, a tailings re-treatment facility, three smelters, a base metals refinery, and a precious metals refinery, all in the Limpopo and North West provinces of South Africa. Each of its mines operates its own concentrator facilities, smelting and refining the output at Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ metallurgical facilities. The company’s 100% owned mining operations comprise Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ Rustenburg, Amandelbult, Mogalakwena, and Twickenham sections as well as Lebowa Platinum Mines, 51% of which is held for sale. Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ Union Section is 85% held, with black economic empowerment (BEE) partner, the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela traditional community, holding the remainder. Anglo Platinum also has a 50:50 joint venture with a BEE consortium, led by African Rainbow Minerals, over the Modikwa platinum mine, a joint venture with Royal Bafokeng Resources, a BEE partner, over the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone platinum mine and Styldrift properties and a joint venture with Xstrata over the Mototolo mine. In addition, Anglo Platinum has joint ventures with Aquarius Platinum covering the shallow reserves of the Kroondal and Marikana mines and portions of the reserves at Anglo Platinum’s Rustenburg Section.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$12M |
| Series A | $20M–$200M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 19% |
| Mining | 4 | 19% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 19% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 14% |
| CleanTech | 3 | 14% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 43% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 24% |
| Canada | 2 | 10% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CK Chow | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ck-chow |
| Jan Klawitter | Principal, International Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-klawitter |
| Jim Rutherford | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-rutherford |
| Judy Dlamini | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judy-dlamini |
| Mark Sun | Head of Marketing of Asia Pacific Precious Metals & Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-sun-2000 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alloyed | OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and biomedical markets. | $48M | Series B | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| PeroCycle | PeroCycle is an industrial decarbonization company that enables closed-loop carbon recycling in the production of steel. | $5.1M | Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Applied Carbon | Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world. | $21.5M | Series A | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Marathon Fusion | Marathon Fusion designs, engineers and scales next-generation technologies to enable the deployment of fusion power plants. | $5.9M | Seed | Jul 18, 2024 |  |
| Thea Energy | Thea Energy is taking a faster approach to commercialize fusion energy. The company’s fusion systems will create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering developed at Princeton University and elsewhere. The company was founded in 2022with the objective of building modular, utility-scale fusion power. | $20M | Series A | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Inlyte Energy | Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety. | $8M | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Eden | Eden is a leader in sustainable natural resource recovery. They break rocks with electricity to maximize subsurface permeability.Eden believes that a more sustainable approach to natural resource recovery is critical to creating a carbon-neutral future. By using high-voltage electricity and proprietary modeling and reservoir characterizationtechniques, they can achieve precise fracture permeability enhancement, while preventing the high-water consumption and environmental risks associated with traditional hydraulic fracturing operations.With backing from public and private institutions, Eden’s next-generation rock permeability enhancement technology is being demonstrated in multiple geologies across the world. They are working with industry leaders in geothermal energy, geologic hydrogen, carbon storage, and mining to redefine how we recover Earth’s natural resources.To learn more about Eden and their groundbreaking technology, visit edengeopower.com | $12M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Nanomox | Nanomox specializes in the sustainable manufacturing of innovative inorganic materials such as metal oxide particles and thin films. |  | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Canada Nickel Company | Canada Nickel engages in the exploration and discovery of nickel sulfide assets to deliver supplies for the electric vehicles, green energy, and stainless-steel markets. They also focus on developing zero-carbon production of nickel, cobalt, and iron at the Crawford Project through NetZero Metals Inc. Canada Nickel seeks trademarks for NetZeroNickel™, NetZero Cobalt™, and NetZero Iron™ while developing processes for net-zero carbon nickel, cobalt, and iron production. The company offers investors exposure to nickel in stable jurisdictions and is centered on its wholly owned Crawford Nickel Sulphide Project in the Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. | $24M | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| First Mode | First Mode builds the barely possible to enable a sustainable future for everyone, everywhere. They design and deliver new products and systems that are critical for zero-emission mobility, the decarbonization of heavy industry, and the production and distribution of green energy. Their engineers in Seattle and Perth help clients create newsolutions to achieve their sustainability objectives, to ensure our planet and people survive and thrive. | $200M | Series A | Dec 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [At One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-environmental-trust) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TechEnergy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techenergy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Anglo American invest in?

Anglo American invests primarily in Energy, Mining and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Anglo American's check size?

Anglo American typically joins rounds of $5M–$12M at Seed and $20M–$200M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anglo American participates in.

### How do I contact Anglo American?

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### Who are the partners at Anglo American?

The team at Anglo American includes CK Chow (Director), Jan Klawitter (Principal, International Relations) and Jim Rutherford (Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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