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Futurelink Group strategic investment by Ciel Group

Corniche Growth Advisors

is pleased to announce its role as strategic and financial advisors to the FutureLink Group

for its financing round led by strategic investor

Ciel Group

Amount not disclosed

Transaction details

  • Year: 2025
  • Sector: Fintech/Alt. Lending
  • Goal: Strategic Investment

Other Transactions

Corniche Growth Advisors

is pleased to announce its role as strategic and financial advisors to Fetch Analytics

on its internal financing round

with a subsequent strategic investment by Experian Ventures

Amount not disclosed

Corniche Growth Advisors

is pleased to announce its role as a pre-seed investor in 10 Dot Cloud Security

with strategic investment by Cyber1

Amount not disclosed

Corniche Growth Advisors

is pleased to announce its role as an early investor in Energenic Holdings

with subsequent PE investment by Sanari Capital

For a total amount of $5,000,000

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David Keast

David has had 25 years strategic business development experience, as an entrepreneur founding and building tech businesses, and as a strategic advisor to tech companies leveraging his hard-earned experience, in both developing and developed markets.

David has founded and built a number of Mobile and Fintech related companies, starting with a mobile service provider for Plessey at the advent of the mobile industry in South Africa in 1994. After gaining his initial African and M&A experience at the MTN Group, he went on to found and build a satellite broadband network and service provider business in West Africa with the backing of the IDC and SES Astra. David moved to Switzerland with his family in 2008 and Singapore in 2012 to found and build an in-app commerce and payments company, with large enterprise customers in Silicon Valley and Japan.

He has a wealth of strategic advisory experience as a partner at Africa Venture Partners in Johannesburg and at Corniche Growth Advisors based in Switzerland, France, the UK and South Africa, advising both VCs and technology companies (from incumbent telcos to AI startups, and everything in-between) on M&A, capital raising and growth strategies. He is also a mentor at Swiss Fintech startup accelerator Tenity in Zurich. David has an MBA and an electronic engineering degree, both from the University of Cape Town.

Ian Buchel

Ian has spent twenty years of his professional career in the intersection of Information Technology, Telecoms and Finance, as an equity analyst, consultant and principal. Since qualifying as a Materials Engineer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg he initially practised as an engineer. Ian’s early career at ERA Technology, a contract research and development company in Surrey, illustrated to him the value of international benchmarks and best practise. Since this time, his viewpoint has always been global in nature.

An MBA degree taken at Cranfield School of Management prepared Ian for his new career taking a tour through stockbroking, corporate finance, banking and a few entrepreneurial ventures. Ian has always had an interest in risk, both from a financial and engineering standpoint, which interest has had a natural leading to insurance opportunities.

Ian’s entrepreneurial pedigree has been developed over nearly two decades in starting, building and exiting businesses. As a co-founder of a boutique advisory business in South Africa (Pleiad Capital in 1999) which was sold to MCC Global in 2006, Ian helped a number of clients in South Africa and abroad to realise growth through either acquisition, capital or business development. MCC Global listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2007. Ian is currently a shareholder and director of a number of businesses that he co-founded in the Energy sector since 2006

Vamshi Lingampally

Vamshi’s particular skill is in developing and launching innovative propositions and businesses as a technology executive, entrepreneur and advisor in multiple sectors that make a real difference.

Vamshi has 18+ years of global experience developing disruptive products, empowering 11 million consumers digitally. A technology executive, working both in leadership and entrepreneurial roles, she has experience launching and growing products and platforms for start-ups in IoT, Financial, Wealth Management, Health & Education Technology. Vamshi’s expertise is in developing innovative business models and products – using AI, Deep learning and other deep technologies - addressing customer and business needs.

Vamshi also has experience in financial services where she specialized in quantitative strategies and structured products. She holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland, Masters and bachelor’s in computer engineering from UMN, USA.

Vamshi actively advises technology start-ups in the UK, Europe and India, focusing on businesses that leverage technology innovation to address critical issues in healthcare and education sectors. She is passionate about the role technology and capital markets can play in solving important world challenges.

Michael Rosholt

Michael has 20+ years of corporate finance and advisory experience, having led sell-side and buy-side mandates, capital raisings, and post-merger integrations across South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania, with international counterparties across Sweden, Germany, Portugal, and the UK.

A dealmaker working across corporate banking, boutique advisory, and executive roles, he has structured and executed transactions in mining equipment, financial services, education, construction, industrial coatings, pharmaceutical distribution, ICT infrastructure, energy and environmental services. Michael's expertise is in carrying transactions through investor solicitation, due diligence, and close, for corporates, private equity sponsors, and family-owned businesses.

Michael also has direct operating experience in technology and renewable energy, having personally invested in, founded, or scaled a number of early-stage technology ventures.

Michael focuses on originating and structuring investment and M&A opportunities for technology and fintech businesses across Africa and emerging markets, bringing two decades of cross-border deal-structuring discipline and investor interaction to bear on the firm's mandates.

Marius Burger

Marius has 25+ years of experience in technology leadership, having served more than 25 of Africa's leading organisations at the most senior levels. He advises on the technology that sits beneath a company's growth story - its architecture, security, scalability, data and delivery capability - and translates it into the terms that matter to investors and boards: value, risk and the investment required to realise the opportunity. His expertise spans IT strategy and governance, digital transformation, cybersecurity and business continuity, cloud and data strategy, AI solutions, technology procurement and large-scale programme delivery.

Marius works across all sectors, and offers particular depth along the Africa-to-Europe corridor - combining an on-the-ground understanding of African markets with the standards international investors and acquirers expect. He brings an independent, results-driven perspective to technology due diligence, pressure-testing digital and AI roadmaps, and helping founders and management teams build the scalable, secure technology foundations that stand up to scrutiny through a raise, an acquisition or a market entry.

Marius is the founder of m-konsult, an independent advisory practice built on giving businesses direct access to senior ICT expertise without vendor bias or agency markup. He is passionate about the role technology plays in unlocking growth and value, and about helping leaders make confident, well-informed decisions at the moments when getting them right matters most.