Cape Town Startup Yazi Raises First Institutional Funding From 3 Capital Ventures

South African Startup Yazi Gains Investment to Turn WhatsApp into a Research Tool for Africa

A technology startup that develops an AI-powered research platform, Yazi has closed its first institutional founding round. The investment places Yazi at a pre-money valuation of R30 million ($1.6 million), marking a significant milestone for the young company. The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), an early-stage venture firm spun out of Allan Gray. Yazi's technology facilitates conversational research over WhatsApp, permitting particip…

Cape Town startup Yazi raises first institutional funding from 3 Capital Ventures

Cape Town-based research technology startup Yazi has secured its first institutional investment in a funding round led by 3 Capital Ventures. Read more...

SA's Yazi Raises Funding To Expand WhatsApp-Based AI Research Platform

South African AI research startup Yazi has raised its first institutional funding round at a pre-money valuation of ZAR 30 M (USD 1.6 M). The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures, an early-stage fund spun out of Allan Gray. Founded in 2022 by Timothy Treagus (who revealed in a LinkedIn post that he came close to shutting down the startup in December 2023) and Mzwandile Sotsaka, Yazi enables organisations to conduct AI-moderated interviews, survey…

Yazi raises first institutional round from 3 Capital Ventures to scale the world's leading WhatsApp research platform

Yazi, the AI-native research platform built on WhatsApp, has closed its first institutional funding round led by 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), the South African early-stage venture firm that spun out of Allan Gray.  The investment will be used to accelerate product development, including the launch of automated voice interviews via WhatsApp, expand Yazi’s research participant panel across Africa, and scale internationally as demand from UK and Europ…