HAVAÍC, a venture capital firm headquartered in Cape Town, has recently declared an additional investment in RapidDeploy subsequent to its involvement in a bridge financing round in the prior year’s October. This VC company has further fortified its ownership share through a subsequent investment as an integral component of RapidDeploy’s Series C equity fundraising phase.
Commencing operations in 2016, RapidDeploy stands as a prominent cloud-native platform dedicated to public safety, furnishing advanced solutions and intelligent data crucial for missions to 911 agencies throughout the expanse of the United States. Operating from its central office in Austin, Texas, this enterprise, originating from Cape Town, is actively contributing to the reduction of response durations, augmentation of situational comprehension, and facilitation of superior outcomes. Furthermore, RapidDeploy empowers leaders in public safety by endowing them with data-driven insights that refine the workflows associated with emergency responses.
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HAVAÍC functions as an investment and consultative entity specializing in the sponsorship of nascent, high-growth technology enterprises in Africa, possessing verified concepts and global potential. Renowned for its accomplishments in propelling its portfolio businesses onto the international stage, HAVAÍC opens up avenues to lucrative and influential investment possibilities for its sophisticated base of private and institutional backers.
Charles Rapulu Udoh
Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer, who has several years of experience working in Africa’s burgeoning tech startup industry. He has closed multi-million dollar deals bordering on venture capital, private equity, intellectual property (trademark, patent or design, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, in countries such as in the Delaware, New York, UK, Singapore, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Nigeria etc. He’s also a corporate governance and cross-border data privacy and tax expert.
As an award-winning writer and researcher, he is passionate about telling the African startup story, and is one of the continent’s pioneers in this regard