# Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking

> Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is a VC fund in Sandown backing Mining and Leasing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sandown, South Africa
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nedbank/
- Website: https://www.nedbank.co.za/content/nedbank/desktop/gt/en/corporates.html
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nedbank/

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is a VC fund in Sandown focused on Mining and Leasing. Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is offers corporate and investment banking and global-market services to diverse clients.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$1.4M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$47M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining | 1 | 11% |
| Leasing | 1 | 11% |
| Mineral | 1 | 11% |
| Wellness | 1 | 11% |
| Industrial | 1 | 11% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| West Wits Mining | WWI is embarking on a strategic transformation to be the only ASX-listed gold producer with operations in the Witwatersrand Basin and Pilbara (Mt Cecelia & Tambina). West Wits was originally formed to explore, evaluate and extract gold and uranium from project areas located on the Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin. | $52.9M | Post-IPO Debt | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Master Plastics | Master Plastics develops sustainable flexible packaging and synthetic fabrics for industries, including food, agriculture, and construction. |  | Debt Financing | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Aircraft Engine Lease Finance | Aircraft Engine Lease Finance is a commercial aircraft and engine leasing company that offers customized and flexible financing solutions to airlines, lessors, banks, and non-traditional aircraft owners. The company focuses on acquiring, leasing, and trading mid-life aircraft and provides liquidity and financial technology to airlines related todeal generation, technical bridging, lease administration, and asset management that are housed internally. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| Omnisient | Omnisient is a leading technology provider of a secure data collaboration platform that empowers organisations to derive deep insights from their data. The company helps organisations unlock growth opportunities and new audience segments without compromising the privacy of their customers; either through collaborations with other businesses orbetween internal divisions.Omnisient’s proprietary platform is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to optimise data sets that are fully compliant with regulations (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, etc); and risk-free; and operates internationally. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Omnisient | Omnisient is a leading technology provider of a secure data collaboration platform that empowers organisations to derive deep insights from their data. The company helps organisations unlock growth opportunities and new audience segments without compromising the privacy of their customers; either through collaborations with other businesses orbetween internal divisions.Omnisient’s proprietary platform is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to optimise data sets that are fully compliant with regulations (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, etc); and risk-free; and operates internationally. | $1.1M | Series A | Jul 06, 2021 |  |
| Omnisient | Omnisient is a leading technology provider of a secure data collaboration platform that empowers organisations to derive deep insights from their data. The company helps organisations unlock growth opportunities and new audience segments without compromising the privacy of their customers; either through collaborations with other businesses orbetween internal divisions.Omnisient’s proprietary platform is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to optimise data sets that are fully compliant with regulations (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, etc); and risk-free; and operates internationally. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 06, 2021 |  |
| LifeQ | Our Dream is to empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.Our Missions is to enable consumers to make better decisions to live healthier lives through optimizinghealth, and be in a position to make smarter, informed, health decisions.We will do this by giving you a 360-degree personalized health mirror, along with the tools, tailored recommendations, and business partners that cover every aspect of your health. | $47M | Series A | May 26, 2021 |  |
| Omnisient | Omnisient is a leading technology provider of a secure data collaboration platform that empowers organisations to derive deep insights from their data. The company helps organisations unlock growth opportunities and new audience segments without compromising the privacy of their customers; either through collaborations with other businesses orbetween internal divisions.Omnisient’s proprietary platform is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to optimise data sets that are fully compliant with regulations (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, etc); and risk-free; and operates internationally. | $1M | Seed | Mar 04, 2020 |  |
| Master Plastics | Master Plastics develops sustainable flexible packaging and synthetic fabrics for industries, including food, agriculture, and construction. |  |  |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking invest in?

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking invests primarily in Mining, Leasing and Mineral startups, most often at Series A and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 9 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 Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking's check size?

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.4M at Seed and $1.1M–$47M 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 Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking participates in.

### When did Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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