Est. 2024
South Africa  ·  International
Advisory  ·  Ventures

We have been founders,
advisors and operators.
Now we help businesses
pivot.

Pivot Partners is an advisory and venture firm working in South Africa and internationally. We advise companies, and we invest in, operate and build businesses, with AI implementation at the centre of how we work.

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01 - Approach

We pivoted ourselves. Now we help businesses do the same.

Three sensibilities in one room: the founders who have been there, the advisors who have sealed complex deals and crucial partnerships, and the engineering teams that ship production AI.

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02 · 03 - Two practices

We invest where we believe. We advise where we’re asked.

Pivot Ventures

We take equity, sit on the operating side, and put our engineering team inside the company.

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Pivot Advisory

Strategy at board level, implementation on the ground, an AI capability that keeps running after we leave. See AI implementation in South Africa.

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04 - Services

Six things we’re good at, and only six.

AI implementation is the throughline. The rest is how we make it land: operating strategy, growth, product and engineering, M&A and venture building.

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05 - Work

Brands we advise, build with, and own a piece of.

Advisory mandates and Pivot Ventures portfolio companies across retail, wine, trade and wellness, in South Africa and North America.

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06 - Founders

Two operators. One firm.

Chris Lombard: M&A, corporate and capital. Nicolò Pudel: founder, operator and builder. The people who scope the work are the people who do it.

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