Your African Venture Capital Partner
Who is Synergos Venture Partners?
Synergos Venture Partners is Venture University (VU) and VU Venture Partners' strategic partner for any investments on the African continent and is founded on the principles of VU's unique business model.
Synergos provides investors from all over the world with the local African knowledge and experience they require to make sense of African investment opportunities from its offices in Stellenbosch, Gaborone, Nairobi and Accra. This is done while at the same time offering its portfolio companies access and introductions into the heart of Silicon Valley and the center of the global financial markets through its offices in San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong.
Synergos leverages the combined network, contacts, background, and experience of both Synergos and VU's General Partners. The combination of Synergos and VU creates a unique and indeed one of its kind Pan African venture capital firm.
Our Partners
Synergos Venture Partners has partnered with VU and follows VU's disruptive model for both venture capital and education. VU is one part venture capital fund (VU Venture Partners) and one part investor accelerator (Venture University) for venture capital investors. It has created what has become the most scalable venture fund platform in the world.
VU is led by two of the most successful venture capital investors who have achieved over a 4x cash-on-cash return on more than $1.8 billion, investing across seed and through the growth stage, with over 35+ years of venture capital experience.
"The World's Leading Investor Accelerator For Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Angel Investing"
Venture University
Venture University's investor accelerator disrupts the traditional college and MBA education system by offering a program where individuals learn by doing. Venture University receives 5,000+ applications per cohort and accepts only ~35 individuals, making it a 0.5% acceptance rate, harder to get into than an ivy league school and top MBA program. The individuals that participate in Venture University focus on deal sourcing, investment evaluation, and doing due diligence before making their investments, and as such share in the financial upside from the investments made. After VU, the individuals go on to join and launch other investment funds, creating a proprietary investor network for deal flow and portfolio support. Currently, the alumni network is ~300 investors and will be growing to 1,000+ investors over the next few years.
"The most scalable venture fund in the world, built to generate consistent and superior returns"
VU Venture Partners
VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage investment fund that is stage and industry agnostic. VU leverages its vast network of investors, both traditional and institutional, to help our portfolio companies and their founders find subsequent rounds of funding. By leveraging the investor accelerator of Venture University, VU Venture Partners are investing in promising startups.
VU Venture Partners has achieved unprecedented scale with an investment team of over 300 investors operating in San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong.
- 15 X LARGER INVESTMENT TEAM: ~75 INVESTORS vs 5 FOR TRADITIONAL FUNDS
- 10 X MORE DEAL FLOW: ~20,000+ COMPANIES / YR vs 2,000/YR FOR TRADITIONAL FUNDS
- 10 X MORE SELECTIVE: ~0.1% vs 1% SELECTIVITY, MAKING ~15 - 20 INVESTMENTS / YR
- UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS: Securing allocations in top vc deals per quarter via VU’s broad & deep insider network across funds as a result of the greater value VU brings to investors & startup companies.
Office Locations
1700 Montgomery St, Suite 440, San Francisco, CA 94111
245 5th Ave, Suite 1003, New York, NY 10016
The Workst@tion, 43 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong
Friesland Farm, Blaauwklippen Road, Stellenbosch, South Africa