We back it. We build it.
Some businesses we don’t want to advise from a distance: we want to own a piece of them. Pivot Ventures is how we do that: we take equity, sit on the operating side, and put our engineering team inside the company. Same offices. Same Slack. Same problems.
We co-build the product, run technology and operations, and stay close to the founders. Our engineering team works inside the company, not at arm’s length, not on a retainer.
We back businesses where AI makes the product materially better, in categories we understand, with teams we want to build alongside. We’d rather improve a company from the inside than simply write it a cheque.
Portfolio companies
South Africa’s largest fine-wine marketplace: rare bottles shipped worldwide, straight from the source. As active investors we drive engineering and platform improvements, advise the CEO, and recently shipped an AI-powered assistant.
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Turns winery tasting rooms into global wine sales: visitors buy in their local currency, shipped to their door. We built the platform end to end and keep innovating with the founding team.
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