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GotBot

Cape Town · Africa · Investment Vehicle · founded 2016

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on GotBot — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$171K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 96%
Sector rank · raised
Growth/Late
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Dec 06 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

GotBot has raised $171K over 1 round; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.

Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

1 Investor
Where it sits in Investment Vehicle

GotBot is one of 1793 Investment Vehicle companies tracked from Cape Town, Africa, on record since 2016. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 5% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

SA AI startup GotBot raises $171k funding round to speed growth 0 By Tom Jackson on December 6, 2019 News , Southern Africa South African artificial intelligence (AI) startup GotBot has raised a ZAR2.5 million (US$171,000) funding round from venture capital firm CapaciTech to accelerate new developments and expansion plans. Founded in 2016 by Nick Argyros and Chris Green, GotBot is a social commerce and customer experience solution that enables clients to easily communicate with customers, through Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WeChat, Skype, SMS, and web chat conversations.

SA AI startup GotBot raises $171k funding round to speed growth 0 By Tom Jackson on December 6, 2019 News , Southern Africa South African artificial intelligence (AI) startup GotBot has raised a ZAR2.5 million (US$171,000) funding round from venture capital firm CapaciTech to accelerate new developments and expansion plans. Founded in 2016 by Nick Argyros and Chris Green, GotBot is a social commerce and customer experience solution that enables clients to easily communicate with customers, through Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WeChat, Skype, SMS, and web chat conversations.

ai/ml

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

ZA
Jurisdiction
1
Investors (latest)
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5.0MGrowth/Late · 2019-12-06 Raised $171K (real) Modeled valuation $3.0M (est)$171K$3.0MGrowth/Late2019

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Growth/Late$171K · 2019

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D+ — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 14%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$3.0M
Base estimate est.
$1.3M
Conservative case
$5.5M
Upside case
$1.7M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Growth/Latea round over $400M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
10%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
90%
Survival probability
78% low · 97% high
1.12×/yr
Annual markup
1.22×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
6.6 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
6.6 yr
On record since
2019
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 1793 companies in Investment Vehicle. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.1× of median
This company$171K
Sector median$3.2M
Latest round — vs other Growth/Late rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.0× of median
This company$171K
Sector median$535.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.1× of median
This company$3.0M
Sector median$25.2M

Raised more than 5% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 14% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Growth/Late$171K2019-12-06$1.7M$3.0M45%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Growth/Late$171K2019-12-06
    • First recorded raise — entered as Growth/Late.
    • 1 investor on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$274K
Modeled next size est.range $178K$438K
Last step-up
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Registry & provenance

GotBot is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
ZA
Jurisdiction
Investors

Public records name issuer insiders, not the funds in a round — these investor links come from corroborating sources.

FirmRoundConfidence
CapaciTechGrowth/Late55%
Frequently asked
How much funding has GotBot raised?
GotBot has raised approximately $171K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is GotBot's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for GotBot is approximately $3.0M (modeled range $1.3M–$5.5M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is GotBot at?
GotBot's latest modeled financing stage is Growth/Late. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Dec 06.
What does GotBot do and where is it based?
GotBot operates in the Investment Vehicle sector, based in Cape Town, Africa. SA AI startup GotBot raises $171k funding round to speed growth 0 By Tom Jackson on December 6, 2019 News , Southern Africa South African artificial intelligence (AI) startup GotBot has raised a ZAR2.5 million (US$171,000) funding round from venture capital firm CapaciTech to accelerate new developments and expansion plans. Founded in 2016 by Nick Argyros and Chris Green, GotBot is a social commerce and customer experience solution that enables clients to easily communicate with customers, through Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WeChat, Skype, SMS, and web chat conversations.
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