New exit for Knife Capital
Knife Capital, through its KNF II fund, has exited its stake in VoxCroft Analytics Inc.
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Knife Capital, through its KNF II fund, has exited its stake in VoxCroft Analytics Inc., the American entity of South African-based VoxCroft, to Redpoint Advisors, a US-based intelligence advisory firm.
VoxCroft Analytics was founded on a conviction that the most consequential intelligence gaps in today’s world are not in well-documented markets, but in austere information environments, the often overlooked places and societies quietly shaping the 21st century. The company developed a proprietary approach it calls population-centric intelligence: a blend of hyperlocal data collection, low-resource machine translation, AI public sentiment analytics, and specialised human wisdom that enables governments and global organisations to make sense of environments where conventional intelligence tools simply do not reach.
For Redpoint Advisors, the acquisition is a direct capability play. Redpoint delivers intelligence, geopolitical risk, insider risk, and overwatch services to private, commercial, and government clients worldwide. The acquisition of VoxCroft’s intelligence platform creates a combined capability with significant relevance to government clients and global organisations navigating complex, high-risk environments.
“We founded Redpoint Advisors to be a high-touch, bespoke advisory firm for global clients operating in the most complex environments. The acquisition of VoxCroft enhances the capabilities we can bring to our clients and allows us to extend VoxCroft’s reach into additional sectors. We appreciate the partnership with Knife Capital throughout this transaction and look forward to jointly growing VoxCroft South Africa,” said Michael LaFontaine, co-founder and managing director of Redpoint Advisors.
“We backed VoxCroft through KNF II, one of the funds managed by Knife Capital, because we saw a team building world-class AI capability at the intersection of language, artificial intelligence, and intelligence services, a market very few others understood. The exit to a US-based intelligence company is exit-centric business building in action - and that thesis proven: African innovation is globally competitive. It simply needs the right knowledge, networks, and funding to get there,” commented Eben van Heerden, co-founder and partner of Knife Capital.
Knife Capital is simultaneously making a follow-on investment in VoxCroft South Africa, with Redpoint Advisors joining as a strategic co-investor. VoxCroft SA will focus on its data-as-a-service offering and doubling down on technologies that curate specialised AI training data sets for applications across the Global South.
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