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What does Holocene invest in?
Holocene invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Climate Tech.
Holocene highlights
- 01
1 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Holocene closes Southern Africa's first climate tech fund HVF1 is the proof that African climate innovation can attract global capital, generate real returns, and create measurable impact, all at the same time.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Climate Tech
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2025
2 rounds
- Nov
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
AEAlbert E. BostonDirectoriFiling they signed
JBJ. Brandon HaleyManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JBJohn Brandon AckerleyDirectoriFiling they signed
JBJulia B. DaileyDirectoriFiling they signed
MBMatt Brandon AuriemmaDirectoriFiling they signed
THTaylor HughesOfficer of the Issuer's AdministratoriFiling they signed
We also hold 9 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Holocene's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
- Jonathan Smit1 fund
Fund Vintage Committed Holocene Holocene Ventures Fund I (HVF1) - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
5 of 14 we have independently watched raise
AwarenesscompanyFarmtofeedkenyaFaroReclaimSwitchAPPLY HEREAsobaCinergyIrokoanalyticsMazimobilityRevo5ScootheroYongezacapitalZimifleet
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.