24 October 2022
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Africa50 to invest in education group The investment will be used by Holding Générale d'Education or Holged Group to support its expansion plans elsewhere in Africa. …
Read more »24 May 2022
- Completed fundraising of $411m, surpassing original hard cap, with contributions from institutional investors, development finance institutions and family offices across Africa, Europe and North America.- Already closed three deals in Ghana, Kenya and M…
Read more »18 May 2022
By Rehma Imrith, Commercial Director In the wake of the global economic downturn initiated by the Covid-19 pandemic, numerous businesses have found themselves facing financial difficulty. As a result, many companies – especially those in the emerging ma…
Read more »04 April 2022
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | XSML reaches hard cap for African Rivers Fund III at USD 85 million XSML, a fund manager active in Central & East Africa, has reached the hard cap for its African …
Read more »17 February 2022
• The ZAR 11.6 billion Redstone concentrated solar power (CSP) project to power 200,000 households upon completion • Commercial operation scheduled to start in Q4 2023 • DEG provided a commitment of ZAR500m to the transaction. At ZAR 11.6 bn total inve…
Read more »13 January 2022
The COFINA Group is pleased to announce the new partnership with FMO, which has approved a EUR5mn investment with Fin'Elle, La Finance pour ELLE. The subsidiary of the COFINA Group is dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in Côte d'Ivoire and offeri…
Read more »25 November 2021
The loan will help create an additional 200 jobs and support the work of 70,000 smallholder farmers in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria Symbiotics and Oikocredit have extended a loan of US$ 30.8 million to Agri Commodities & Finance FZ-LLC, the main …
Read more »11 November 2021
AfricInvest’s Financial Inclusion Vehicle (AfricInvest FIVE) is pleased to announce its investment in MFS Africa as part of the company’s US$100 million equity and debt financing round. MFS Africa is a Pan-African digital payment hub that enables low-cos…
Read more »24 September 2021
Àrgentil Capital Management Limited (“Àrgentil or ACML”) has successfully achieved a financial closing for First Modular Gas Systems Limited (“FMGSL”), a clean energy company founded by the firm alongside Dharmattan Gas Facilities Limited. This allows FMG…
Read more »14 September 2021
CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, has made a US $60 million commitment under its African Private Credit Fund Strategy, which aims to address a significant credit market dislocation and mid-market financing gap,…
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Who will be in #Cairo for #AVCA2023 Panel 5: Frontier Markets – Outside the Big 4 This panel observes the… https://t.co/gH7T0zLSoC
💧 This #WorldWaterDay we spotlight @IFC_org who works with clients in #emergingmarkets to build innovative, market-… https://t.co/Fif0aM4DtJ
RT @BritishIntInv: For #InternationalDayofForests we're celebrating our partnerships to scale sustainable forestry in Africa. This include…
Hear what delegates had to say about the #AVCA2022 #PrivateEquity Conference... #AVCA2023 Agenda:… https://t.co/JpmkXjkeyl
This #InternationalDayofForests we spotlight @norfund and @BritishIntInv and their investment in the African… https://t.co/1OsaYkVHw8
