Team Africa Ventures

Daniel is the founder and guiding force behind Click2Sure. He is a successful serial e-commerce entrepreneur and has been instrumental in growing the e-commerce industry in South Africa. He co-founded Groupon South Africa in 2010 and developed it into one of Africa’s leading e-commerce companies.

He has won numerous awards, including the U-Start Africa Top e-Commerce Website Award (2011 and 2012), and in 2015 was recognised as having made the biggest impact on e-commerce in Africa. He holds an MBA from London Business School and has completed a variety of professional courses including, more recently, the Singularity University Executive Management programme.

Wayne is the Founder and driving force behind Hyperli, he is driven by entrepreneurship, technology and people. He lives for change, a fast pace and realizing opportunity. Wayne thrives on challenges and getting things done. He is a strong advocate of lean start-ups, with a quick build from concept to execution based on experience, talent and insight.

He believes in the lean start-up methodology and exit-centric focus, from when He started and sold his first business in university, to selling Twangoo to Groupon in 125 days and becoming their South African CEO. Wayne has strengths in systems, processes and execution. He has an intense interest in what makes businesses thrive and is motivated by the opportunities that technology represents, particularly in Africa.

Kobus is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with a demonstrated history of working as a financial manager in a start-up environment. He provides comprehensive and valuable advice to companies he works with to seamlessly create structure. He believes a strong finance function can provide insight and data to all departments to make better decisions to grow a company together. Kobus enjoys problem solving, financial analysis and mentoring other people

Celeste is an experienced talent manager having worked both national and international recruitment. Her core focus has been to partner with companies to build successful teams and building company culture. After having worked with many different businesses she decided to become more specialized where she is able to build and shape a company’s greatest assets its culture and people.

Jaime is an admitted attorney, notary public and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa. She obtained BA (Law) and LLB degrees from Stellenbosch University in 2013 and 2015 respectively. After graduating from Stellenbosch University, Jaime completed her articles of clerkship at an established law firm situated in the Western Cape, being Minde Schapiro & Smith. Whilst at Minde Schapiro & Smith, she gained experience in a wide range of legal fields, including experience in commercial law, civil litigation, and family law.

William is a classically trained musician with a music performance undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree in Entrepreneurship and Management from the University of Cape Town. He has a passion for all things technology related and enjoys helping businesses grow.

Kornel has a passion for people and helping teams work effectively. He enjoys building distributed systems and using technology to solve business problems, seeing the whole rather than just parts of the problem. He has history in building teams and products in a start up environment and has run and built large scale cloud applications.