Companies

Talk360

SA · Africa · founded 2016

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Talk360 — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$4.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 2%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Jun 02 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Talk360 has raised $4.0M 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’s Talk360 raises $4m seed round to expand calling business, build payment platform 0 By Tom Jackson on June 2, 2022 News , Southern Africa South Africa-based international calling app Talk360, which enables people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide, has secured US$4 million in seed funding as it prepares to launch a new pan-African payment platform in mid-2022. Co-founded in 2016 by South African venture builder Dean Hiine with Dutch entrepreneurs Hans Osnabrugge and Jorne Schamp, Talk360 provides phone calls to any offline landl

SA’s Talk360 raises $4m seed round to expand calling business, build payment platform 0 By Tom Jackson on June 2, 2022 News , Southern Africa South Africa-based international calling app Talk360, which enables people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide, has secured US$4 million in seed funding as it prepares to launch a new pan-African payment platform in mid-2022. Co-founded in 2016 by South African venture builder Dean Hiine with Dutch entrepreneurs Hans Osnabrugge and Jorne Schamp, Talk360 provides phone calls to any offline landl

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$13M$25M$38M$50MSeed · 2022-06-02 Raised $4.0M (real) Modeled valuation $36M (est)$4.0M$36MSeed2022

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
Seed$4.0M · 2022

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$36.4M
Base estimate est.
$3.6M
Conservative case
$170.0M
Upside case
$20.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). 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
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
40%
Survival probability
18% low · 62% high
1.45×/yr
Annual markup
1.90×/yr upside case
4.1 yr
Elapsed time used
4.1 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
4.1 yr
On record since
2022
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) 3.1× above median
This company$4.0M
Sector median$1.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.5× above median
This company$36.4M
Sector median$14.6M

Raised more than 99% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 99% 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.
Seed$4.0M2022-06-02$20.0M$36.4M45%
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. Seed$4.0M2022-06-02
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 1 investor on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$6.4M
Modeled next size est.range $4.2M$10.2M
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

Talk360 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
HAVAÍCSeed55%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Talk360 raised?
Talk360 has raised approximately $4.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Talk360's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Talk360 is approximately $36.4M (modeled range $3.6M–$170.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Talk360 at?
Talk360's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Jun 02.
What does Talk360 do and where is it based?
Talk360 is a private company, based in SA, Africa. SA’s Talk360 raises $4m seed round to expand calling business, build payment platform 0 By Tom Jackson on June 2, 2022 News , Southern Africa South Africa-based international calling app Talk360, which enables people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide, has secured US$4 million in seed funding as it prepares to launch a new pan-African payment platform in mid-2022. Co-founded in 2016 by South African venture builder Dean Hiine with Dutch entrepreneurs Hans Osnabrugge and Jorne Schamp, Talk360 provides phone calls to any offline landl
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