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Top 25 Venture capital advisory services based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 167 venture capital advisory services headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 516 professional contacts across them, including 149 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital advisory services headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest venture capital advisory services based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Step Advisory is a boutique management consulting firm focused on fuelling business growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nambe Financial Consultants was established in 2011 to alleviate the shortage of Chartered Accountants assisting Small and Medium Entities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Questco was established in 2002 as a boutique corporate advisory firm, providing strategic, corporate finance, regulatory advice, and related services to listed and unlisted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Unconventional CA (UCA), we embrace a transformative approach to supporting SMMEs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over four decades behind us, MRM is a well-established Financial Firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Birkett Stewart McHendrie ("BSM") is an international advisory firm specialising in M&A, capital markets transactions, and distressed advisory - combining boutique culture with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Agilequity is a boutique corporate finance and valuation advisory firm focused on helping owners and shareholders of mid-market businesses grow value and achieve premium exits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a boutique investment firm that strives for excellence in providing solutions that support our clients to reach their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Valeo Capital is a boutique advisory firm that provides independent expert advice on the full spectrum of corporate finance services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Novitas is a full service corporate finance firm that brings together a wealth of industry, advisory and transaction expertise to provide a first-class offering to our clients to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2005, New GX Capital Holdings Proprietary Limited or “New GX”, is a black owned and controlled investment company formed on strong entrepreneurial principles…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established more than 20 years ago, Arbor Capital is a Transaction and Corporate Advisory firm that co-crafts and creates sustainable capital solutions that our customers need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “THEZA Capital is an authorised financial services advisory and investment company established in 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blackslope is a (1) boutique strategy and innovation consultancy and (2) venturing firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Intaba Capital is a women-led investment and advisory firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We assist our customers to use finance as a Catalyst for Growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corporate Advisory Firm” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ordian is an investment and advisory business focused on thoughtful capital allocation, long-term value creation and disciplined analytical thinking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are specialists in the field of financial advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Billybo Group is a cost-effective, executive resource for top management and entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Capital Raising, M&A, Private Equity, Debt Capital Markets, Mezzanine Finance, Venture Capital, Venture Debt, Development Capital & Commercial Real Estate” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a strategic management firm dedicated to empowering our clients with intelligent decision-making for optimal results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marsden Advisory is a team of corporate finance professionals with over 25 years experience having concluded over R12bn from over 25 transactions in the past five years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guiding you to your Liquidity event | Working capital injection | Equity release | Strategic partner | Full sale” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are experts in company valuation and financial performance analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: venture capital advisory services. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names venture capital advisory services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital advisory services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital advisory services. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Venture capital advisory services based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 167 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among venture capital advisory services, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “venture capital advisory services”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names venture capital advisory services), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among venture capital advisory services, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 149 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names venture capital advisory services, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many venture capital advisory services are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 167 venture capital advisory services headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Step Advisory, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most venture capital advisory services?
Johannesburg leads with 47 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (38) and Pretoria (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 149 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 167 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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