Nika Capital
Glenfield Office Park, C/o Glenwood Road and Oberon Ave, Faerie Glen, Pretoria, Gauteng, 0081, South Africa
Overview
Nika Capital focuses on disrupting poverty by addressing education inequality for children and youth from disadvantaged communities. The organization allocates funding to selected schools and nonprofits, supports learners with bursaries, and supplies educational resources across early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary phases. Nika Capital also offers holistic care through social work, discipleship, and nutrition, and provides academic monitoring, tutoring, and mentorship. It develops financial literacy content such as Money Matters magazines to build consumer education and stewardship skills. The organization further connects graduates to internships and employment opportunities and partners with companies and individuals to channel financial, share-based, and asset donations into education-focused initiatives.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Charity
- Education
- Financial Services
- Humanitarian
- Non Profit
- Personal Finance
- Publishing
- Social Assistance
Investment portfolio
- Swish Basket
Participated · Seed · Aug 2026
Swish Basket builds sensor-equipped basketball hoops using video and LiDAR to track ball movement, player biomechanics and shot statistics, and employs facial recognition to associate data with individual athlete accounts. The company leases its installations to schools, academies and camps for $2,000 per year while offering a free athlete app. Co-founder and CEO Joel Bar-El leads the company with Asaf Ronat as chief product officer. Swish was part of the 2026 NBA Launchpad cohort and recently closed a $3.2M pre-seed round led by Aristagora Venture Capital with participation from Péter Kádas, NIKA CAPITAL NPC and RGE Group. The startup is targeting 750 installations in 2027 and is concurrently pursuing an $8M seed round expected to close in October.
Team
No current team members are available.