About Us

We are entrepreneurs with extensive experience in building business in South Africa and internationally.

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The E4E team

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Bas Hochstenbach
Co-Founder / Partner
  • Law & Buss / Public admin
  • McKinsey & Co
  • Co-Founder African eco-tourism leader Asilia Africa
  • Various non-exec and co-founder roles
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Aisha Pandor
Co-Founder / Partner
  • PhD in Human Genetics
  • Accenture Consulting
  • Co-founder/CEO SweepSouth, Africa’s leading platform for home services
  • Various leadership roles in tech ecosystem
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Neil Watson
Partner

Neil co-founded Digital Planet in 1999. He built the business into a large e-commerce services business and successfully exited in 2019.

During that time he invested and exited many businesses in a wide range of industries. Since 2019, Neil has been investing and mentoring full time.

He loves working with Entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions to hard problems.

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Frederik Gerner
Co-Founder / Partner
  • Offshore engineering, EMBA Insead
  • Co-founder Ampelmann (global high-tech hardware company)
  • Co-founder FORWARD.one, VC in hardware tech
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Bakang Komanyane
Principal
  • Economics, Harvard University
  • Investment associate at Hines (global real estate fund)
  • Senior associate at Alethia IDF (pan-African PE fund)
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Tatenda Nyamuda
Principal
  • B.Bus Sci (Finance - CA), UCT; MBA, University of Oxford
  • Auditor, Deloitte
  • Investment associate at Dalberg Group
  • Various roles in Transaction Capital Group