# HAVAÍC

> HAVAÍC is a VC fund in Cape Town backing Software and Health Care. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last fund: Aug 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/10505951/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HAVAIC_SA
- Website: https://www.havaic.com

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$4M |
| Series A | $1.9M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Health Care | 5 | 11% |
| FinTech | 4 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 9% |
| Apps | 3 | 6% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 28% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 15% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 14 | 30% |
| United States | 5 | 11% |
| Kenya | 2 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ian Lessem | CEO | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-lessem |
| Grant Rock | Executive director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-rock |
| Rob Heath | Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-heath |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $1.4M | Secondary Market | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| 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. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Right Now Response | Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost. | $632.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Right Now Response | Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost. | $632.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Sportable | Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England. | $15M | Series A | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| 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 |  |
| RapidDeploy | Founded in 2016, and based in Austin, TX, RapidDeploy is the leading cloud-native platform for public safety. We provide Next Generation 911 solutions that deliver intelligent information throughout the emergency response journey, empowering agencies and first responders to drive better outcomes in mission-critical situations. With a curatedpartner network, our platform combines mobile signals, critical datasets, and call information into a single operating system, improving emergency response with location accuracy, situational awareness, modern communications, and actionable insights. Our products improve outcomes and ultimately save lives. |  | Series C | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| RapidDeploy | Founded in 2016, and based in Austin, TX, RapidDeploy is the leading cloud-native platform for public safety. We provide Next Generation 911 solutions that deliver intelligent information throughout the emergency response journey, empowering agencies and first responders to drive better outcomes in mission-critical situations. With a curatedpartner network, our platform combines mobile signals, critical datasets, and call information into a single operating system, improving emergency response with location accuracy, situational awareness, modern communications, and actionable insights. Our products improve outcomes and ultimately save lives. |  | Series C | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| Right Now Response | Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost. | $559.3K | Seed | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Tanda | Tanda is a fintech startup working to revolutionize access to essential digital financial services for MSME's across Africa.Through Tanda, micro-retailers can not only access inventory credit, but also become access points for essential services such as Airtime, Utility payments, M-banking & Insurance for their customers.For thelongest time, shopkeepers have been the cradle for African communities. They supply over 70% of essential goods, worth over $180 Billion annually across the continent. It comes as a shock that despite their importance to local economies, over 90% of micro-retailers do not have any credit history nor access to financing from Banks or MFI's. Tanda plans to close this financing gap and drive financial inclusion for low income MSME's across the continent. |  | Seed | Oct 04, 2022 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4Di Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4di-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aruwa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruwa-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [AAIC Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaic-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bose Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bose-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HAVAÍC invest in?

HAVAÍC invests primarily in Software, Health Care and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is HAVAÍC's check size?

HAVAÍC typically joins rounds of $100k–$4M at Seed and $1.9M–$15M 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 HAVAÍC participates in.

### How do I contact HAVAÍC?

Public channels for HAVAÍC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at HAVAÍC?

The team at HAVAÍC includes Ian Lessem (CEO), Grant Rock (Executive director) and Rob Heath (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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