Companies

Mobiz

Africa · founded 2014

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Mobiz — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 3%
Sector rank · raised
Growth/Late
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Apr 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Mobiz has raised $1.0M 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

SA marketing startup Mobiz raises $1m from Kalon Venture Partners 0 By Tom Jackson on April 1, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African mobile marketing startup Mobiz has raised a US$1 million funding round from Kalon Venture Partners to help it sustain its growth. Launched in 2014 by Greg Chen and Clark Lin, Mobiz is an easy-to-use marketing software platform that allows users to create well-designed and highly-personalised mobile campaigns within five minutes.

SA marketing startup Mobiz raises $1m from Kalon Venture Partners 0 By Tom Jackson on April 1, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African mobile marketing startup Mobiz has raised a US$1 million funding round from Kalon Venture Partners to help it sustain its growth. Launched in 2014 by Greg Chen and Clark Lin, Mobiz is an easy-to-use marketing software platform that allows users to create well-designed and highly-personalised mobile campaigns within five minutes.

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$5.0M$10M$15M$20MGrowth/Late · 2020-04-01 Raised $1.0M (real) Modeled valuation $18M (est)$1.0M$18MGrowth/Late2020

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$1.0M · 2020

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
$17.8M
Base estimate est.
$7.8M
Conservative case
$32.0M
Upside case
$10.0M
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
6.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
6.3 yr
On record since
2020
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 8525 companies in this sector. 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) 0.8× of median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$1.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.2× above median
This company$17.8M
Sector median$14.6M

Raised more than 98% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 98% 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$1.0M2020-04-01$10.0M$17.8M45%
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$1.0M2020-04-01
    • First recorded raise — entered as Growth/Late.
    • 1 investor on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.6M
Modeled next size est.range $1.0M$2.6M
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

Mobiz 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
Kalon Venture PartnersGrowth/Late55%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Mobiz raised?
Mobiz has raised approximately $1.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Mobiz's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Mobiz is approximately $17.8M (modeled range $7.8M–$32.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Mobiz at?
Mobiz's latest modeled financing stage is Growth/Late. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Apr 01.
What does Mobiz do and where is it based?
Mobiz is a private company, based in Africa. SA marketing startup Mobiz raises $1m from Kalon Venture Partners 0 By Tom Jackson on April 1, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African mobile marketing startup Mobiz has raised a US$1 million funding round from Kalon Venture Partners to help it sustain its growth. Launched in 2014 by Greg Chen and Clark Lin, Mobiz is an easy-to-use marketing software platform that allows users to create well-designed and highly-personalised mobile campaigns within five minutes.
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