29 November 2018
New report provides encouraging data on LPs’ views and expectations about Private Equity in Africa. Key findings include a majority of LPs planning to increase allocation to the continent in the short-term and just under half of LPs viewing Africa as bein…
Read more »24 October 2018
London: High profile speakers and investors from venture capital funds, development finance institutions, corporate venture capital firms and accelerator programmes have taken part in the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (AVCA) ina…
Read more »21 September 2018
AVCA and PwC release new study analysing the IPO exits of African PE portfolio companies and African associated companies on both African and international stock exchanges. London: The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), in con…
Read more »10 September 2018
AVCA releases new study presenting Africa’s Private Equity (PE) activity for the first half of 2018 London: The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) today released its report analysing deal and fundraising trends in Africa PE, fo…
Read more »09 May 2018
Corporate governance improvements are linked to value creation for 85% of PE-backed portfolio companies in Africa, according to AVCA’s 2018 Africa Sustainability Study Wednesday, 9th May 2018, London: The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Associ…
Read more »30 April 2018
Monday 30th April 2018, London: The pan-African industry association, African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), released a special report at the 15th Annual AVCA Conference which was held on 23rd and 24th April in Marrakech. An Untol…
Read more »26 April 2018
Private Equity exit activity in North Africa is on a rise. Thursday 26th April 2018, Marrakech – Exits to Private Equity and other financial buyers continued to increase in 2017, to 37%, and now represent the most common exit route, as evidenced by the s…
Read more »23 April 2018
Monday, 23rd April 2018, Marrakech - High profile keynote speakers, panellists, and investors have opened the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s (AVCA) 15th Annual Conference in Morocco. The Conference is hosting the top 600 private …
Read more »12 April 2018
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) today strengthened its leadership as 'Tokunboh Ishmael, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Alitheia Capital, comes in as Chair of the Board of Directors and Ziad Oueslati, Managing Directo…
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African and global commercial investors from Axonia Partners, Colonial Consulting, @SanlamInvest @alexforbes and Sa… https://t.co/tfaDfYEhzy
”We think about the exit right at the beginning - when we sit down with owners or management, we try and understand… https://t.co/VJ82ZMdGer
"To prepare companies for exits, we try to improve reporting standards, corporate governance and we look for the be… https://t.co/TuRdDXxO2Z
Hurley Doddy of ECP, @AyisiMakatiani of @FanisiCapital, Karima Ola of @LeapFrogInvest and Carlos Reyes of @IFC_org… https://t.co/PECs3EOmIV
"Youth and women empowerment need to be a critical components of GPs' investment mandate." Sandrine Henton… https://t.co/iwfU21vyDU
