Welcome to Tapio Foundry

Tapio Foundry partners with early-stage tech businesses to unlock their full potential through growth hacking and operational excellence. We’re dedicated to making startups succeed in a competitive B2B tech environment.

About Us

Tapio believes in the transformative power of strategic partnerships. Our goal is to guide tech startups toward sustainable growth using our tried-and-tested toolkits.

Our Purpose

Growth Hacking Through Partnership Excellence.

Our Team

Adam Horvath

COO

Adam contributes an extensive background in strategic and legal expertise to our partners. He has a demonstrated history of successfully building and leading teams in the areas of legal and financial risk intelligence. By implementing forward-thinking revenue strategies, Adam has driven significant growth for the various business divisions. His leadership and strategic insights remain essential to our ongoing success.

Andre Badenhorst

CTO

Andre is a skilled software developer with extensive experience in ICT, digital marketing, network automation, DevOps, and mobile app development. He has played a pivotal role in launching major international online sports betting platforms and was instrumental in developing Johannesburg's first privately-owned redundant wireless network.

Myles Woolford

CEO

Myles brings over 13 years of building businesses internationally. His performance has resulted in top quartile returns, focussing on acquisitions, growth, and team-building. He is committed to finding growth hacks, Myles leverages innovation to guide startups toward sustainable growth, to align with Tapio's transformative vision.

Nick Sachs

CCO

Nick is fully qualified chartered accountant with a CA(SA) and CFA Level 3, Nick's experience includes tenures at KPMG, BDO, Gresham house and other notable finance roles. At Tapio, Nick oversees operational functionality, builds investment pipelines, and manages the investment process. He has over 8 years of startup and investment expertise. Nick's leadership and financial acumen are integral to our success.

Our Values

Listen actively

We listen to understand not to respond. We respond to be constructive, not to be personal.

Be accountable

It is ok to fail once but we own these failures and actively learn from them. Egos are left at the door.

Integrity = Empathy + Trust

It’s about the team, and we try to understand how others feel and always acting in a way that breeds trust

Commit

We commit to what we agree even if we have to compromise.

Always be learning

Learning is a journey, but we don’t do what we don’t understand.

It has to be fun

We are here to have fun while we work.

What we do

Trust and Understanding

We only do business with people we trust and only invest in businesses we understand.

Value-driven Behaviour

We uphold our core values by avoiding unpaid work, resource wastage, pursuit of trivial trends and investing further in unsuccessful endeavours.

Operational Discipline

We focus on strategic investments rather than managing our own, avoid financial shortsightedness, ensure alignment between promises and deliverables and work with people who fit within our cultural framework.

Strategic Adherence

We stay committed to our strategic plan, seek founders with relevant industry expertise, avoid using tactics as excuses, preserve our brand integrity and accurately reflect our value propositions.

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