# Kalon Venture Partners

> Kalon Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Apps. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kalonvp
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/kalonvp
- Website: http://www.kalonvp.com/

Kalon Venture Partners is a VC fund in Johannesburg focused on Artificial Intelligence and Apps. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $570k–$4.6M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |
| Software | 2 | 11% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 11% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 42% |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 8 | 42% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clive Butkow | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clive-butkow |
| Leron Varsha | Chief Operating Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leron-varsha-aadd |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| visionAI | visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing. The company focuses on democratizing computer vision AI, making it accessible to everyone. visionAI provides tools for network monitoring, verification, and optimization, enhancing production efficiency in various industries. |  |  | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |

10 of 19 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
- [IDF Capital SA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idf-capital-sa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Compass Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/compass-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Kalon Venture Partners invest in?

Kalon Venture Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Kalon Venture Partners's check size?

Kalon Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $570k–$4.6M at Seed and $2.5M–$11M 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 Kalon Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Kalon Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Kalon Venture Partners?

The team at Kalon Venture Partners includes Clive Butkow (Founder & Chief Executive Officer) and Leron Varsha (Chief Operating Officer). 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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