# Anton van Vlaanderen

> Anton van Vlaanderen is a seed investor at 4Di Capital backing Financial Services and AgTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [4Di Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4di-capital)
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-van-vlaanderen-93613818/
- Website: https://www.4dicapital.com/

Anton van Vlaanderen is a seed investor at 4Di Capital in Cape Town focused on Financial Services and AgTech. Anton has been diversely involved in 4Di Group since its inauguration in 2002, and in 2011 became a full partner in 4Di Capital. Due to the entrepreneurial nature and vision of the group, he has had wide exposure to the startup space, and coupled with his prior experience in a corporate environment, knows what it takes to build and operate asuccessful business from the ground up.Anton’s strength lies in overseeing the core operations of all activities and requirements within 4Di Capital. Besides contributing strong organisational and leadership skills, Anton provides the nurturing and support that is required to shape successful young portfolio companies. Anton’s studies include a Bachelor of Commerce and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| AgTech | 1 | 13% |
| Drones | 1 | 13% |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 5 | 63% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BFree | BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Happy Pay | Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services. | $5M | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Happy Pay | Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Rather.chat | Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication. | $796.2K | Seed | Oct 27, 2023 |  |
| CompariSure | CompariSure is an independent life insurance comparison platform. CompariSure provides you with multiple life quotes from South Africa’s most-established and trusted life insurers. | $979.1K | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| BFree | BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Investsure | InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur. | $527K | Seed | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| Aerobotics | Aerobotics provides intelligent tools for optimal perennial crop farming practices. | $441K | Seed | Aug 01, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DotExe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dotexe-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [E4EAfrica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e4eafrica) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Equitable Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equitable-ventures-56c5) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felix Strategic Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-strategic-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HAVAÍC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/havaic-sa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VestedWorld](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vestedworld) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About 4Di Capital

VC Fund · Cape Town, South Africa

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

4 contacts available at 4Di Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anton van Vlaanderen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anton-van-vlaanderen |
| Erik van Vlaanderen | Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-van-vlaanderen |
| Justin Stanford | Co-founding General Partner & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-stanford |
| Laurence (Laurie) Olivier | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurie-olivier |

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## FAQ

### What does Anton van Vlaanderen invest in?

Anton van Vlaanderen invests primarily in Financial Services, AgTech and Drones startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anton van Vlaanderen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anton van Vlaanderen closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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