AN IDEAL INVESTMENT
We aspire to live to our name
Epitome – The embodiment of best-in-class; this guides us in our choice of assets to be invested in.
Objectives and Purpose
Founded with the Purpose to Build
- A prosperous South Africa
- A pioneering nation of entrepreneurs who lift others
- Entities that develop sustainable ways of generating energy
Experience Of The Team
At the heart of our business is a team of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in communities, the church, internal audit and the mainstream of the formal public and corporate sector of the South African economy.
What we do
Epitome is a family-owned venture capital firm (investments holding company) focusing on multigenerational future-driven sustainable investments in renewable energy, knowledge and change management and 4thIR enabling platforms such as Fin and Agritech.
Vision and Mission
The future is green
- We see ourselves as stewards, looking after this planet until our children inherit it.
- This drives us to invest in entities that develop renewable energy.
- In the long term, plough back our harvested success into the communities that shaped us.
Our approach
Shifting Perspectives
Building intergenerational wealth takes a slightly different perspective.
We know that when we make an investment decision, we are investing for both our investors and our children’s future therefore we join the boardrooms of our Investee companies with a higher degree of care in exercising our fiduciary duties.
Empowering while we rise
We partner with our investments through an empowering enabling approach.
We bring to the boardroom the 20 years credentials of our founder who has been a Board Director since 1999 where he participated in various entities including as managing director and CEO during the 3rd phase of BEE and Economic Transformation in South Africa – we bring significant value through our diverse experience forged at the cutting edge of Bluechip South African companies.
Sustainable energy, Sustainable Investments.
We invest in purpose-driven businesses that align with our values – business that are committed to making South Africa better and an epitome of best-in-class emerging market economies; in turn we aspire in the long term through our long-terms philanthropic vision to plough-back our harvested success into to the communities that shaped our journey to success.