We help build remarkable businesses that change the world for the better.
Elevant Ventures is a growth accelerator
Elevant Ventures is a diverse team of engineers, entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, and finance experts, united by a passion for breakthrough ideas and their transformative potential. We identify and support trailblazing companies that leverage innovation to shape a future defined by sustainable technology, healthy living, and a better world for everyone—a future that serves as an inspiring legacy for our children.
We believe that great ideas achieve meaningful impact only through exceptional execution sustained over time. Our mission is to make this vision a reality. Elevant Ventures focuses on Seed to Series A investment in Europe.
Meet our team
Kobus Nel
Chairman of Investment Committees
David Evans
Managing Director: Fairtree Elevant Ventures
Gabriel Louw
Private Equity Investment Principal
Rene Van Rooyen
Financial Manager
Marisa Evans
Private Equity Analyst
Maurits Geuze
Investment Partner
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The de-equitisation of public markets
For the last two decades, global capital markets have been undergoing a silent but aggressive transformation known as “de-equitisation”. The number of publicly traded companies has more than halved, while the pool of private capital is exploding.
Robotics: a solution to the European population decline?
Populations in developed industrial countries are generally expected to shrink over the next 75 years, and where populations are expected to be maintained, they are reliant on significant immigration to do so.
Europe’s need to invest in breakthrough technology in the energy transition and circular economy
Can Europe innovate its way to independence? Unpacking the 200GW storage challenge and the circular economy.
Important information
The Fund Manager is registered with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten) with registration number 5002628, on the basis of section 2:66a sub 1a under 1 in conjunction with section 2:66a sub 3 of the FMSA (implementing Article 3(2)(a) of the AIFMD) as an alternative investment fund manager (beheerder), managing alternative investment funds (beleggingsinstellingen) such as the Fund.