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South African Venture Capital Industry

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The South African Venture Capital (VC) industry shows an encouraging rise in the number of new fund managers, an increase in deal flow and in profitable exits, while deal size declines. The South African venture capital (VC) industry now represents almost R2bn in assets under management, with healthy confidence levels that are commensurate with reported rising deal activity, a pleasing exits record and a significant increase in VC fund managers and industry professionals.