Strategic compounding
Every business we add strengthens the next. Capital, customers and capability compound across the portfolio, on a horizon measured in decades rather than fund cycles.
We acquire the software your industry can't run without.
Anchorlight Capital is the permanent home for founder-built software businesses: mission-critical, revenue-strong and rooted in Africa. We back founders who want continuity, not a forced exit.
A subsidiary of the Kotzé Group, a family-run holding group with 40 years across industry, property development, software, agriculture and services.
Our thesis
What we look for
We don't chase every deal. We look for a specific kind of business, one we can commit to for the long run.
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Mission-critical
Software your customers structure their operations around: high switching cost, deep workflow integration, not easily replaced.
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Revenue-strong
Durable, recurring revenue with healthy margins and a customer base that isn't concentrated in one or two accounts.
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Vertical, not horizontal
Purpose-built for a specific industry (agriculture, healthcare, logistics, professional services) rather than a generic tool competing on features alone.
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Africa-rooted
Primarily South African and African businesses. We'll consider select opportunities elsewhere when the fundamentals and founder fit are right.
The Kotzé Group (opens in a new tab)
Forty years of building, now compounding in software.
Anchorlight Capital is a subsidiary of the Kotzé Group, a family-run holding group with a 40-year record. We are the group's digital transformation and compounding arm, and the permanent home for the founder-built software businesses we acquire.
- Industry
- Property development
- Software
- Agriculture
- Services
Software deployed across the group
Few acquirers can put software to work inside their own holding group. We can, across industry, property development, agriculture and services, giving the businesses we acquire real operating environments to grow into, and the group the benefit of the software it owns.
Why Anchorlight
A different kind of acquirer
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Founder-first continuity
Your local team stays. Your brand can stay. We're not here to strip and flip. We're here to build on what you built.
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Permanent capital
We're not working against a fund clock that forces an exit in five to seven years. Backed by a 40-year family group, we hold, reinvest and compound strategically.
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Majority, by design
We acquire controlling stakes so we can commit fully to the business: clean governance, clear decision rights, and one accountable partner instead of a committee.
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Hands-on where it helps
Operational support when you want it (shared services, group-wide deployment and a network of operators), never imposed where it doesn't fit.
For founders
The journey
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Conversation
We start by understanding your business and what matters to you beyond the price: your team, your customers, your legacy.
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Alignment
We evaluate fit against our thesis, and you evaluate fit against your goals. Same conversation, both sides checking for the same thing.
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Diligence
Structured, respectful, and time-bound. We move at a pace that respects that you still have a business to run.
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Close & continuity
Your team stays. Decisions stay close to the business. You get a partner for the next chapter, not a landlord.
For investors & capital partners
The digital transformation and compounding arm of the Kotzé Group
Anchorlight is a subsidiary of a 40-year-old, family-run holding group. We back mission-critical, revenue-strong software businesses that dominate their vertical, and we can deploy that software across the group's own industries. If that strategy fits your mandate, as a co-investor or strategic partner, we welcome the conversation.
Get in touch- Structure
- Permanent capital from the Kotzé Group, no forced exit timeline
- Focus
- Vertical software, mission-critical & revenue-strong
- Geography
- South Africa first, selective African & cross-border opportunities
Get in touch
Let's talk
Whether you're a founder weighing your options, an advisor with a mandate, or an investor exploring the strategy, this goes straight to our team.
Prefer email? Write to
johan@anchorlightcapital.co.za