# Erik van Vlaanderen

> Erik van Vlaanderen is a startup investor at 4Di Capital (Cape Town). See 0 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
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvanvlaanderen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/erikvanv
- Website: https://x.com/erikvanv

Erik van Vlaanderen is a startup investor at 4Di Capital in Cape Town. Erik van Vlaanderen is currently the executive chairman of 4Di Group, and a founding partner in the 4Di Capital team. Erik has played an invaluable role over the past decade in 4Di Group, a joint investment platform established in 2002 in partnership with Justin Stanford to focus on technology opportunities.Erik holds a B Com Honours inTaxation and is a chartered accountant (CA) SA. He started his professional career as a partner in Deloitte & Touche, followed by a successful period as firstly CEO of Unifruco, and then as an executive director of the merged Capespan Group, South Africa’s largest fruit exporter, where he was integral in crafting the vision and deployment of IT infrastructure to modernise the fruit industry. Erik has pursued various other entrepreneurial endeavors in his career, and his substantial business experience, wisdom and leadership make him an integral member of the 4Di Capital team.

## 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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