{"id":208687,"date":"2017-11-02T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=208687"},"modified":"2017-11-02T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:29:09","slug":"cape-town-based-knife-capital-joins-candy-crush-creators-in-backing-swedish-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/208687\/cape-town-based-knife-capital-joins-candy-crush-creators-in-backing-swedish-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town based Knife Capital joins Candy Crush creators in backing Swedish startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-locationText u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">Cape Town and London based <\/span>equity investment firm, Knife Capital, participated in its maiden European investment by way of a R22 million funding round for Swedish startup, Mobile and Sensory Technology (MOST).<\/p>\n<p>Knife Capital joins King Digital Entertainment, creator of global sensation Candy Crush, and early investor in MOST, which develops environmental monitoring solutions for the transport and shipping industry.<\/p>\n<p>The investment was facilitated by former Springbok rugby captain and Knife director, Bob Skinstad, who will join MOST\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>MOST will invest the fresh capital into further global expansion, including the South African market.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/208251\/these-4-south-african-fintech-startups-just-each-won-r1-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These 4 South African fintech startups just each won R1 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town and London based equity investment firm Knife Capital participated in its maiden European investment by way of a R22 million funding round for Swedish startup, Mobile and Sensory Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[12531],"class_list":["post-208687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-knife-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208693,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687\/revisions\/208693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}