Keet van Zyl

Keet van Zyl is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Knife Capital — the Stellenbosch (Cape Town) headquartered South African technology venture capital and growth equity platform with a Lagos Nigeria Tech Corridor Hub (opened 2019), managing approximately R3.5B+ (~$190M) cumulative AUM across Knife Fund I (R400M, 2012), Knife Fund II (R800M, 2016), Knife Fund III (R1.1B, 2020), and Knife Pan-African Scale-Up Fund IV (R1.2B, 2024 vintage, explicit 35% Nigeria allocation with Silicon Valley SaaStr Fund LP co-invest). A University of Pretoria BComm Informatics & Management Honours graduate, Stanford GSB Venture Capital Executive Programme alumnus, 1998 founder & 2010 exit recipient of Integr8 Group B2B SaaS before founding Knife Capital in 2010 with a Silicon Valley SaaStr and Endeavor South Africa connected African tech scale-up thesis.