Who is asking
the questions?
A fair thing to want to know before you let someone examine your business, or the one you are about to buy. Investable is a small South African advisory firm built to do one thing properly: establish what is actually true about a business, and then help fix what is not.
Because the checking rarely gets done.
Across a long career in corporate strategy and transactions, the same pattern kept appearing. Decisions worth hundreds of millions resting on a case nobody had independently tested. Not through carelessness, but because the person best placed to test it was the person whose project it was.
Organisations cannot mark their own homework. Not because people are dishonest, but because the person who finds the problem becomes, in that moment, the obstacle. So the checking either gets done by someone with no career riding on the answer, or it does not get done at all.
That is the firm. Independent judgement, commercial evidence, and operators who can act on what we find.
Keshni Morar
Founder and Chief Executive. Twenty eight years across corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate-wide innovation and IT transformation programmes, venture building and founder development.
The transaction experience covers more than twenty complex deals across African markets, including cross-border and multi-jurisdiction transactions, with a cumulative value of around $4.5 billion. The transformation work matters as much: it is why technical diligence is not outsourced here, and why a conversation about a company's systems does not have to be translated for us.
Alongside the commercial firm, she leads the Investable Foundation, and is the local partner for Founder Institute in South Africa.
Buy-side and sell-side diligence, deal execution and integration, across corporates, funders and owner-managed businesses.
Corporate-wide innovation and IT transformation programmes, which is where the technical and operational diligence capability comes from.
Building businesses from validated opportunities, and knowing from experience which parts of the plan usually break first.
More than three hundred founders supported since 2021, of whom over seventy five reached a market.
Deliberately small.
Deliberately senior.
We do not carry a bench. Every mandate is staffed from a network of senior operators we have worked alongside for years, assembled for the specific problem and released when it is solved.
That is not a compromise. It means you get people who have actually run the function rather than whoever was available, and it means our overheads are not quietly priced into your fee. It is also why we can say no to work: we are not feeding a payroll.
We work with a small number of engagements at a time, which is a capacity decision rather than a posture, and it is why we assess fit before proposing a conversation.
The formal part.
100% Black Woman-Owned. Spend with us is recognised at 135% of value on your preferential procurement scorecard.
Local partner in South Africa, and the route through which our founder development methodology was built and tested.
Strategic partnerships that give South African businesses routes into markets and mentor networks beyond it.
We take no commission from funders, lenders or acquirers, and we hold no position in anything we assess. Our fee is the only thing we earn from an engagement.
We work under mutual non-disclosure as standard, and client names are shared only with written permission. Which is why you will not find a logo wall here.
A separate non-profit entity running founder development, skills and agriculture programmes. See the Foundation ↗