# Naspers

> Naspers is a VC fund in Cape Town backing E-Commerce and Internet. 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: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nasperslimited/
- Website: https://www.naspers.com/

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $456k–$20M |
| Series B | $1.7M–$40M |
| Private Equity | $55M–$421M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 30% |
| Internet | 9 | 19% |
| Retail | 6 | 13% |
| Mobile | 4 | 9% |
| Shopping | 4 | 9% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 9 | 19% |
| Series B | 8 | 17% |
| Series A | 7 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 13% |
| Seed | 3 | 6% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 8 | 17% |
| India | 6 | 13% |
| Brazil | 3 | 6% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Peru | 1 | 2% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ervin Tu | Interim CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ervin-tu-3b07 |
| Aileen O'Toole | Chief People Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aileen-o-toole |
| Basil Sgourdos | Group Chief Financial Officer and Financial Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basil-vasili-sgourdos |
| Bob van Dijk | CEO | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-van-dijk |
| David Tudor | Group General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-tudor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PharmEasy | PharmEasy is a health tech startup offering services such as teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and diagnostic test sample collections.It also operates an online pharmacy that helps patients connect with local pharmacy stores and diagnostic centers in order to fulfill their extensive medical needs. The startup company is funded and backed byCaisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), Ascent Health, Bessemer Venture Partners, Orios Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, InnoVen Capital, and Temasek Holdings.PharmEasy was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah as a subsidiary of Ascent Health. |  | Private Equity | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Abaguquli | Abaguquli is a non-profit organisation. aims to improve people's lives through education and innovation. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Jem | Jem builds HR Software for companies with frontline workers. Using WhatsApp, we make it easy for HR and Payroll Managers to send payslips, process leave requests and communicate with thousands of frontline workers in just a few clicks.Jem is system-agnostic and easily plugs into your existing payroll system, whether it's Sage or SAP. Thatmeans we can get you up and running in a day. HR and Payroll managers use the Jem Dashboard, a simple web-based application to communicate with their entire workforce. Frontline employees use the Jem WhatsApp channel to request payslips, apply for leave or take a salary advance without the need for an email address or an employee self-service app. | $2M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Otodom | Otodom allows users to view & post ads for the sale & rental of real estate, in particular apartments, houses. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Captain Fresh | Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India. | $40M | Series B | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| The Student Hub | The Student Hub will publish e-books with links to other resources, while students will also be able to react to content when they are confused or find it difficult. ERAOnline will allow them to send comments and messages to authors, publishers and peers, and every student will be connected with a subject expert to assist them when they get stuck. | $2.6M |  | Nov 18, 2020 |  |
| Shipper | Shipper is a digital logistics platform that helps freight forwarders to deliver goods easily. It works with online or corporate vendors to pick up items to be shipped using selected logistics services. It cooperates with online sellers or companies to pick up goods to be sent using selected logistics services. Its platform offers package pick-upservice and fulfillment centers, help logistics providers manage shipments, predicts shipping routes, consolidate packages headed in the same direction, and also provides a multi-carrier API that enables sellers to manage orders, print shipping labels, and get tracking information from multiple providers on their phones. | $20M | Series A | May 20, 2020 |  |
| ZestMoney | ZestMoney is a growing consumer lending FinTech company that uses digital EMI, without the need for a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney wasmade accessible to millions of Indian consumers.Founded in 2016 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman, and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other. | $15M | Series B | Dec 19, 2019 |  |
| VTEX | VTEX is a developer of a cloud-based eCommerce platform used to help companies future-proof their businesses and free them from software updates. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel commerce platform that allows users to increase sales and reduce overhead by uniting with partners, suppliers, and even competitors to eliminate channel conflict toseamlessly serve customers, enabling retailers, brands, and B2B manufacturers to collaborate with third-party suppliers and grow their business by launching their own marketplaces. | $140M | Series C | Nov 22, 2019 |  |
| Immutable Systems | Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizationsto bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies. | $15M | Series A | Sep 23, 2019 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [ICONIQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconiq-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DST Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-sky-technologies-fo) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Baillie Gifford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baillie-gifford) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Naspers invest in?

Naspers invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Retail startups, most often at Private Equity and Series B 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 Naspers's check size?

Naspers typically joins rounds of $456k–$20M at Series A, $1.7M–$40M at Series B and $55M–$421M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Naspers participates in.

### How do I contact Naspers?

Public channels for Naspers include LinkedIn 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 Naspers?

The team at Naspers includes Ervin Tu (Interim CEO), Aileen O'Toole (Chief People Officer) and Basil Sgourdos (Group Chief Financial Officer and Financial Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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