Venture Capital investments and exits hit record in 2019 – and then Covid struck

If we’re serious about growing the economy, we need to start seeing more venture capital money backing more investable ideas the same way it is done in the US and Israel. That’s why the release of the recent SAVCA Venture Capital Survey is so interesting. It shows that we’re starting to see a rise in VC investments, off a low but steadily rising base, and, perhaps more importantly, the local VC landscape experienced record investment & exit activity in 2019. Michael Avery speaks to SAVCA CEO Tanya van Lill,; Stephan Lamprecht, the MD of Venture Solutions, a VC consultancy; and Andrea Böhmert, Co-Managing Partner at Knife Capital, about the rise of VC and what impact Covid has had on the asset class.