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HBD Venture Capital

PoweredbyVC manages HBD Venture Capital's South African portfolio of investments. HBD VC is a South African Venture Capital Fund founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2000. HBD (an acronym for “Here Be Dragons” - a term used in ancient times to mark unchartered territories on maps) offered growth capital to a range of early stage businesses. The fund is now fully invested and its current focus is on growing its investments for profitable exit.

Fund Raising Activities

PoweredbyVC is currently in the process of raising additional Venture Capital funds from third party investors to manage in line with specified mandates. For more information contact us.

AngelHub

PoweredbyVC co-founded AngelHub: a manager-led Business Angel Investment Group that pools funding, expertise and networks from a diverse range of early-stage Angel Investors for investments ranging between R1m and R10m in high-growth South African ventures to accelerate growth and create value.

AngelHub aims to unlock new funding resources for startups, support South African entrepreneurship innovation, and generate jobs and economic value.

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Strategic Consulting

PoweredbyVC provides strategic consulting services related to the venture capital niche to companies that have the potential for high growth and can therefore possibly attract Venture Capital, or use VC techniques to grow.

These include a broad range of services to fuel growth and enhance efficiencies and include - but are not limited to - the following:

• Company scalability stress testing
• Business Plan development
• Company Valuation
• Due Diligence execution / formulation / overseeing
• Scenario Analysis/ Planning
• Information flow design
• Analysis of funding needs and options / instruments
• Assistance in fund raising initiatives
• Financial modelling, budgeting and cash flow forecasting
• Key Performance Indicator development including benchmarking and dashboards