Connexa Capital

We are a global venture capital fund backed by five leading grocery retailers - Tesco (UK, Ireland, Europe); Ahold Delhaize (US, Europe, Indonesia); Empire (Canada); Woolworths Group (Australia, New Zealand) and Shoprite (Africa). We invest in start-ups and scale-ups deploying technology to transform retail and create a better planet. With five of the world’s leading grocery retailers on our investment committee, we offer accelerated pathways to global scale and leave you to do what you do best: innovate and grow your business at start-up speed. Our CEO Ingrid is an innovator, strategic thinker and business builder with over 25 years experience in retail, data, customer loyalty, digital and investing. She has a reputation for being visionary, moving fast, challenging the status quo, getting things done and delivering commercial results.

Anthos is a generalist venture capital firm with over $3B of assets under management. Venture capital is what fuels new and innovative businesses, and – since our founding in 2007 – we’ve had the privilege of investing in and working with the founders of Guayaki, Gopuff, Olaplex, Trunk Club, ApplyBoard, VRChat, and dozens of other category-leading start-ups to build their businesses. We purposely maintain a low profile, in keeping with our general ethos of humility and heads-down work ethic. The background of our diverse team possesses a good balance across finance – Goldman Sachs, Luxor, Ares, Summit – and consumer tech – Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Apple, Venmo, and more.

Along with utilising the vast infrastructure and business resources of LOTTE Group, we leverage our expertise, experience and network to navigate the entrepreneurial journey of our portfolio companies. Our Values The foundation of our organization, shaping every decision we make and every investment we pursue. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity, dedication, and agility. Integrity: We believe in conducting business with honesty, transparency, and respect for all parties. Our commitment extends to every aspect of work, from due diligence to portfolio management. Dedication: Using all our resources, we fully focus on assisting our portfolio companies to realize their full potential. We take pride in being part of their journey to success. Agility: Our team is highly responsive and adaptable, and we work closely with portfolio companies to ensure they have the support they need to succeed in rapidly changing market. What We Look ForGame changers with groundbreaking technologies Challengers engineering their business in the highly growing markets Open innovators creating values with social responsibilities Business models that can create synergies with LOTTE Group

Proven track record of building scalable technology platforms at the Fortune 100 level. Rollups, mergers and acquisitions partnering with global stakeholders. An international advisory board and a local business network spanning real estate, construction, consumer goods and agriculture coupled with an extended network across multiple verticals enabling B2B.

Notus Technologies a été créée par Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, entrepreneur et actuel président du MEDEF, ayant fondé The Phone House et Virgin Mobile. La société a trois types d’activités : Investissements majoritaires dans des PME au sein de deux secteurs : Gastronomie : regroupe les sociétés Oliviers&Co et Le Fondant Baulois, avec pour objectif de rassembler des marques emblématiques alimentaires premium, fabriquées en France, afin de de les exporter dans le monde entier Outdoor : regroupe les sociétés Chullanka et Approach, Chronoloisirs, Amsterdam Air et Nihola (distributeurs multicanaux de produits pour le sport et les loisirs outdoor) et compte rassembler d’autres fabricants et distributeurs dans ce domaine, avec un intérêt particulier pour les mobilités douces Investissements minoritaires dans des PME Venture : participation à des levées de fonds de startups, soit à travers le fonds ISAI dont Notus est cofondatrice, soit en investissement direct dans sociétés comme Studapart, Monisnap, Greenly, Okarito, Flatsy, etc L’ensemble des participations majoritaires comprend environ 250 collaborateurs et réalise près de 70M€ de CA.

As capital becomes a commodity with more early-stage investors flocking to Africa, what will make us stand out will be our networks, relationships, and reputations. What we look forLarge Markets: A clear market opportunity that is massive and growing, captured through a scalable business model. We aim at reaching sustainable impact across a large audience by addressing deep markets, or investing in market-creating innovations. Scalable Economics: Tech-enabled businesses with proven, highly leverageable and defensible revenues, coupled with the ability to improve unit economics through cost and capital efficiency are able to achieve top-trend growth more easily than less efficient business structures. We are disciplined in ensuring the unit economics of the business we invest in are sustainable and attractive. Strong Agile Teams: We are looking for founders that combine strategic vision and executional capacity. Strong teams tend to be bound by a cohesive, inclusive, all-hands-on deck culture. We are seeking founders and teams guided by a clear value proposition and differentiated position in the market. Repeatable Growth: Solutions with highly replicable growth models and transferable problem-solution sets can most benefit from our growth investment and market expansion facilitation. As African markets are not uniform, we carefully model and test solution-market fit. How much funding will you get? If you are an African founder of a tech enabled startup that is solving a significant African development challenge please apply here. If you have little or no revenues, we will refer you to our Angel Fund for $10k to $100k funding consideration. If you have meaningful revenues with high growth potential, we may invest $50k-$250k.