# Imvelo Ventures

> Imvelo Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sandown, South Africa
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ImveloV
- Website: https://imvelo.ventures/

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $659k–$2M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 37% |
| FinTech | 6 | 32% |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| Legal | 3 | 16% |
| Internet | 3 | 16% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 63% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Fitzjohn | Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fitzjohn |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Botlhale AI | Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| The Cape Town Stock Exchange | The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 19, 2022 |  |
| The Cape Town Stock Exchange | The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 19, 2022 |  |
| Acumen Software | Acumen Software is a consultancy and asset management & workforce management software solutions provider established in 2006. It provides mobile software solutions for asset management and workforce management to organizations with dispersed and distributed assets, taking complex arrays of scenarios and providing a simple mobile managementsolution in response. |  | Series B | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Lipa Payments | Lipa creates software that allows merchants to accept contactless payments without any additional hardware. This technology also allows consumers to make contactless payments effortlessly and securely from their mobile phones. | $659.4K | Seed | Feb 21, 2022 |  |
| BancX | Banking as a Service for Africa. Our vision is to enable businesses to build, curate and embed their own branded financial services with the ease of an API. Imagine you could become an AWS for financial services by launching not the IT stack but the financial services stack and doing the same. Our customers will be able to reshape financialservices by bringing new business and operating models to not just the existing, but also the underserved, and financially excluded markets. | $1.4M | Seed | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| Acumen Software | Acumen Software is a consultancy and asset management & workforce management software solutions provider established in 2006. It provides mobile software solutions for asset management and workforce management to organizations with dispersed and distributed assets, taking complex arrays of scenarios and providing a simple mobile managementsolution in response. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 13, 2021 |  |
| Legal Lens | Legal Lens is a legal tech start-up that provides affordable legal fees to companies. |  | Seed | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| BriefCo | BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation. ​ |  | Seed | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| Preferental | Preferental is a digital property management platform that guarantees rental income. We provide landlords with stress-free rental management services while removing their financial exposure. Our services cover all management aspects and through technology, we create savings through economies of scale and pass the saving onto landlords. Throughtechnology we aim to disrupt the current way of property management by building a marketplace that empowers landlords to grow their investment portfolios. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lebashe Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lebashe-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pallidus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pallidus) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shaolin Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shaolin-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andzani Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andzani-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capitec Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitec-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Imvelo Ventures invest in?

Imvelo Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 19 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 Imvelo Ventures's check size?

Imvelo Ventures typically joins rounds of $659k–$2M at Seed and $5M–$5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Imvelo Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Imvelo Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Imvelo Ventures?

The team at Imvelo Ventures includes Mark Fitzjohn (Director). 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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