# Clive Butkow

> Clive Butkow is a seed investor at Kalon Venture Partners backing Apps and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kalon Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalon-venture-partners)
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-butkow-5b49144/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/clivebutkow
- Website: https://x.com/clivebutkow
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clive.butkow

Clive Butkow is a seed investor at Kalon Venture Partners in Johannesburg focused on Apps and Software. Chief Executive Officer at Kalon Venture Partners (previously Grotech)

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 15% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 6 | 46% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GoMetro | 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 thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services. | $11.4M | Series A | Nov 28, 2023 |  |
| Sendmarc | Sendmarc is offers email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation. | $7M | Series A | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Flow | 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. Visithttps://flowliving.com. | $4.6M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Talk360 | Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before. | $3M | Seed | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| GoMetro | 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 thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services. | $1.1M | Seed | May 04, 2022 |  |
| Carscan | 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. | $1.1M |  | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Carscan | 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. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| iXperience | 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 thatclose 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. | $2.5M | Series A | May 09, 2021 |  |
| Sendmarc | Sendmarc is offers email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Mobiz | 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. | $1M | Seed | Mar 31, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [E Squared Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-squared-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Endeavor South Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-south-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [4 Decades Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4-decades-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AlphaCode Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphacode-club) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [E2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Futuregrowth Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futuregrowth-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kalon Venture Partners

VC Fund · Johannesburg, South Africa

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.

2 contacts available at Kalon Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clive Butkow | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clive-butkow |
| Leron Varsha | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leron-varsha-aadd |

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## FAQ

### What does Clive Butkow invest in?

Clive Butkow invests primarily in Apps, Software and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Clive Butkow last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Clive Butkow closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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