Lindiwe Pretorius

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Founder & CEO at Fern Security · Developer tooling · community, product

Fern Security
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
9+ years experience
University of the Witwatersrand
English, Afrikaans
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Fern Security (developer tooling). 9 years of building before that. Raised $5 million across 2 rounds. Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company.

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Skills
communitydeveloper toolsRustopen sourceproduct
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - invoice financing for airlines, 18 enterprise pilots

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
18 enterprise pilots after 23 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

18 enterprise pilots after 23 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with hiring.

Cape Town, South Africacommunityopen sourcerust
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Fern Security · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Grew the team to 111 people across 5 countries.
    • Took Fern Security from zero to $8 million ARR.
  2. Regional Sales Director
    Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
    PwC · 2 yr · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Built the channel team from 2 to 23 reps.
    • Signed 29 channel partners that now source 35% of pipeline.
  3. Sales Development Representative
    Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
    EY · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Closed 189% of quota two years running.
  4. Enterprise Account Executive
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
    Jumia · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Signed 18 channel partners that now source 26% of pipeline.

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Conference talk: lessons from company
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tooling.

Developer tooling benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing developer tools and Rust on real workloads.

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Education

  1. University of the Witwatersrand
    BSc, Business Administration
    2012 - 2016

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