22 October 2021
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 20, 2021 - Africa REN, a pioneer in clean infrastructures in Africa, announces it has launched the construction of the Kodeni Solar power plant, near Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso. With an installed capacity of 38MW, K…
Read more »19 October 2021
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 October 2021 Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has acquired a majority stake in Altilands SA, the parent company of Red Lands Roses (“Red Lands”), a leading grower of premium fresh-cut roses in Kenya. Red L…
Read more »14 October 2021
The Hague, 13 October 2021 - Lendable Inc., a leading emerging market fintech credit provider, is targeting a ground-breaking US$100mn closed-ended fund focused on emerging and frontier market fintech investments, with FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial devel…
Read more »12 October 2021
Cape Town, 14 October 2021 – African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, has successfully completed a capital increase of ZAR5.5bn (c.US$370mn) for its flagship SADC in…
Read more »06 October 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | DPI raises one of the largest Africa funds at US$900mn to invest in innovation-led companies Development Partners International (DPI) announced that the African Develo…
Read more »29 September 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | ReelFruit raises US$3mn in Series A funding round led by Alitheia Capital Alitheia IDF led the round and invested US$2mn while other investors included Samata Capital …
Read more »27 September 2021
54gene, the health technology company advancing African genomics research for improved global health outcomes, has secured US$25mn in a Series B round, led by Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund. The round also included participation from Adjuvant Capital,…
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 »22 September 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Cartona raises US$4.5mn in funding Cartona, the Egypt-based B2B platform connecting retailers to manufacturers and wholesalers, has successfully raised US$4.5mn in it…
Read more »15 September 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | SunFunder invests US$4mn into off-grid solar company SunFunder, which provides debt financing for solar enterprises working in emerging and frontier markets, announced…
Read more »08 September 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Cropnuts, backed by DOB Equity, launches AgViza, a new disruptive AI platform, designed to make soil testing more affordable for African farmers Crop Nutrition Laborat…
Read more »01 September 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest US$200mn in African fintech Wave at US$1.7bn valuation Wave, the U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised US…
Read more »25 August 2021
London, August 25, 2021: To bolster economic and social growth in Africa, the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has announced the establishment of the AVCA Training Academy (“AVCA Academy”) to provide private investment profe…
Read more »25 August 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | OPay raises US$400mn in a funding round led by SoftBank Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised US$400mn in new financing led by SoftBank Vision …
Read more »18 August 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Acumen closes US$58mn impact fund, the first to drive climate adaptation for smallholder farmers The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) closed in June 2021. This…
Read more »11 August 2021
A collection of news across the African private equity and venture capital industry | Old Mutual PE fund backs Malawian macadamia producer Africa Merchant Capital (AMC) Advisory advised the management team at Gala Agriculture Company, a macadamia planta…
Read more »12 July 2021
Amid growing demand for funding for Africa's underserved medium-sized companies, IFC today announced an investment in a new mezzanine fund managed by Vantage Capital, a leading mezzanine funding provider on the continent, which will provide capital to fas…
Read more »12 July 2021
Nigerian fintech and lending startup Lidya has announced that it has completed its US$8.3 million pre-Series B funding round. Alitheia Capital led the investment through its uMunthu Fund with the participation of Bamboo Capital Partners, Accion Venture …
Read more »07 July 2021
Volume of total reported venture capital deals in Africa in 2020 rose to 319 from 140 in 2019 Financials remains the most attractive sector for VC investment, followed closely by Information Technology Despite decrease in value of VC deals in 2020, Af…
Read more »10 May 2021
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Kofo Sanusi as the Association’s new Chief Operating Officer. Kofo brings over a decade of experience in strategic business and operational planning, and financial management. She has worked across Africa, …
Read more »28 April 2021
Ally Mwakaneno of Kenya Wall Street talks to TLcom Founder and Managing Partner Maurizio Caio on the characteristics of a great investment, why Africa’s young startup ecosystem needs more venture capital, and what is likely to be the next giant after fint…
Read more »29 March 2021
29 March 2021, London: Today, the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) announced the release of its 2020 Annual African Private Equity Data Tracker report. The anticipated annual report provides data and analysis on private equity…
Read more »18 February 2021
CDC Group has today announced its investment in a US$300 million fund from Adjuvant Capital focused on accelerating the development of medical innovations for historically overlooked public health challenges. Launched in 2019, Adjuvant’s debut fund will s…
Read more »23 July 2020
LeapFrog Investments Makes Three Leadership Appointments, Following Record Fundraise Experienced leaders will drive strong returns and governance for the leading impact investor LeapFrog Investments, the Profit with Purpose investment group whose compan…
Read more »21 July 2020
London, United Kingdom: 21 July 2020: Today, the Board of Directors of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) announce the appointment of Dara Owoyemi as Interim CEO, following the departure of Michelle Kathryn Essomé last month…
Read more »20 July 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a loan of up to US$50mn to Access Bank Plc to help the bank increase liquidity to thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria which are navigating the economic challenges of COVID-1…
Read more »16 July 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a US$12mn loan to Rider Iron and Steel Ghana Limited to support the company’s construction of a steel manufacturing plant that will increase Ghana’s domestic steel production, creating thousands of di…
Read more »13 July 2020
'Tokunboh Ishmael, Chair of AVCA's Board, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Alitheia Capital speaks with CNBC Africa on Africa booming venture capital industry. To watch the full interview, please click here.
Read more »08 July 2020
Alexia Alexandropoulou, Research Manager at AVCA speaks with Rebecca Szkutak, Reporter at Venture Capital Journal on AVCA's latest Venture in Africa report. To read the full interview, please click here.
Read more »07 July 2020
Establishes stronger partnership with premier African private equity manager and presents an opportunity to collaborate on co-investment opportunities Supports efforts to mobilise capital to African businesses and continued investment in companies acro…
Read more »06 July 2020
Alexia Alexandropoulou, Research Manager at AVCA spoke with Michael Avery of the Classic 1027 radio show, Classic Business on Africa's venture capital industry's hot sectors and participating investors. Listen to the full interview here.
Read more »02 July 2020
CDC Group and Finnfund today announce a US$70mn commitment to AfricInvest Fund IV, a generalist pan-African fund aiming to foster the growth of African enterprises across the continent. CDC, the UK’s impact investor and development finance institution, co…
Read more »30 June 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, IFU, the Danish Investment Fund for Developing countries, and PROPARCO, member of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) group, are providing an equity financing package of up to US$108.5mn to Humania, a priva…
Read more »26 June 2020
IFC approves US$25mn investment into Lorax II fund. To read more, please click here. -END-
Read more »25 June 2020
Through a US$30mn investment in the first close of AfricInvest’s new multisector private equity fund, Proparco will support the development of strong local and regional consumer-driven businesses across Africa. AfricInvest is one of the pione…
Read more »25 June 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing EUR10mn in financing to Tunisian date processing company VACPA, part of an effort to preserve jobs, especially for women, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The company, the country’s largest exporter of dates, …
Read more »23 June 2020
In line with its vision to better manage the environment and support the socio-economic uplifting of the Region where it operates, Inside Equity Fund has committed to invest US$2.75mn in Alpha to finance the doubling of its waste collection and processing…
Read more »18 June 2020
Like many cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon (4 million inhabitants), is experiencing rapid population growth, especially among the middle class, and a strong urban transformation. Changes in consumer habits and the i…
Read more »16 June 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a loan of up to US$100mn in Nigeria’s Zenith Bank Plc to help it increase support to clients and companies whose cash flows have been disrupted by challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.IFC’s loa…
Read more »16 June 2020
New financial center designed to support inward investment into Africa CDC to play key advisory role in creating new legal framework for financial hub CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, today signed a pa…
Read more »16 June 2020
AVCA's Head of Research & Training, Enitan Obasanjo-Adeleye discusses the findings of AVCA's research on climate change, the implications of climate change on Africa's PE ecosystem and the role African PE can play in reducing the risks of climate chan…
Read more »16 June 2020
Written by 'Tokunboh Ishmael, Managing Partner, Alitheia IDF To see the original article, please click here Politics, Philosophy and Economics of ODA in a time of COVID-19 In these unprecedented times, development assistance must shed the skin of its…
Read more »10 June 2020
Sanlam Investments is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic through large-scale support of the recovery of South African companies, from small enterprises to corporates that employ a large number of people. Sanlam has committed R2.25bn of its own capital to…
Read more »08 June 2020
This operation is Proparco's first mezzanine transaction in Ethiopia and will support job creation, the development of local agribusiness, import substitution and economic growth in the country. Proparco and Ethos Mezzanine Partners have announced a …
Read more »04 June 2020
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested up to US$30mn in AfricInvest Fund IV. Read more.
Read more »04 June 2020
Projects support developing countries reeling from COVID-19 and include first transactions using equity and technical assistance The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors has approved US$1bn of investments that will …
Read more »02 June 2020
EIB approves debt investment of US$10mn into the InsuResilience Investment Fund managed by Blue Orchard. Read more
Read more »01 June 2020
The deal is one of the first investments under CDC’s Venture Scale-up Programme mPharma aims to dramatically reduce the cost of essential medicines in Africa, making quality healthcare affordable and accessible to all consumers in Africa To …
Read more »26 May 2020
The pressure on healthcare facilities is greatly increasing in developing countries as the Covid-19 virus spreads. Based on long experience of working with sustainable investments in developing countries Swedfund supports different actors in the healthcar…
Read more »22 May 2020
In order to support small and medium-sized companies following the Covid-19 outbreak the Swedish Development Finance Institution, Swedfund, now increases the liquidity available to these companies by lending 5 million EUR to Platcorp, a financial institut…
Read more »22 May 2020
Pearl Capital Partners, which manages the Yield Uganda Investment Fund, has made a seventh investment of UGX 4.6bn (ca. US$ 1.2m) in Naseco (1996) Limited (NASECO). NASECO, which has had operations for over 20 years, produces, processes and distributes ce…
Read more »21 May 2020
Africa’s agricultural output is much lower than its potential. Africa has a quarter of the world’s agricultural land but produces less than a tenth of its food. In comparison, China has 10% of the agricultural land and produces 20% of the world’s food sup…
Read more »21 May 2020
RENEW and the Impact Angel Network Make Follow-on Investment in Ethiopia’s #1 Online Food Delivery Company in Response to Spike in Demand Due to COVID-19 Members of RENEW's Impact Angel Network (IAN) have funded a third investment in Roadrunner Technol…
Read more »21 May 2020
By Tom Scriven CFA, Partner & General Counsel, RENEW In our latest white paper, we outline seven reasons why RENEW believes a ‘stay the course’ approach to investing in SMEs in Ethiopia is the best response both to the economic crisis created b…
Read more »08 May 2020
The Open Society Economic Justice Program, via its impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), has committed $15 million to two women-led investment funds that advance economic and gender equity. These investments—US$10mn in Alithei…
Read more »06 May 2020
La Tribune Afrique interviews AVCA's Head of Research and Training, Enitan Obasanjo-Adeleye. Read more
Read more »30 April 2020
Through a US$20mn equity investment in the SPE AIF I investment fund, Proparco supports SMEs undergoing periods of strong growth or transition, in the industrial, health and education sectors in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. SPE AIF I is a private equi…
Read more »29 April 2020
Àrgentil Capital Partners (“Àrgentil”) is providing support to a number of initiatives to help with the healthcare emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has seen us provide financial resources to pay for a full complement of medical staff at on…
Read more »27 April 2020
Nigerian fintech platform Okra has secured a US$1mn pre-seed fundraise from TLcom Capital, strengthening its push to build the infrastructure for Africa’s next wave of fintech innovation. With the first API in Africa to retrieve real-time financial data f…
Read more »24 April 2020
Standard Bank has acquired a 40% stake in the digital fuel management solutions and telematics company Payment24 Group. Payment24 Group is a technology development firm that supports companies with large fleets. Launched just over five years ago to fill …
Read more »10 April 2020
Written by 'Tokunboh Ishmael, Managing Partner, Alitheia IDF Impact Investing seeped into the conscience of the investing ecosystem over a decade ago and refers to the varying degrees that investments can deliver positive social, developmental, econom…
Read more »08 April 2020
The African Development Bank Group on Wednesday announced the creation of the COVID-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries in fighting the pandemic. The Facility is the latest measure taken by the Bank to respond to the pandemic and wil…
Read more »12 March 2020
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved, Thursday, March 11 in Abidjan, a stake of EUR12mn in the capital of the Yeelen fund dedicated to the financial sector. Yeelen Financial Fund LP is a 12-year investment fund domiciled in Mau…
Read more »11 March 2020
CNBC Africa discusses the findings of our new African Private Equity Industry Survey with Enitan Obasanjo, AVCA’s Head of Research and Training. Watch it here
Read more »03 March 2020
TerraPay announced today that a consortium of investors, including Prime Ventures, Partech Africa and management acquired the company for an undisclosed sum. In addition, the same investors, joined by IFC, invested US$9.6 mn in TerraPay to fund the compan…
Read more »06 February 2020
Encouraging further development of the African tech scene, the online software outsourcing Marketplace company Gebeya have secured a $2 Million dollar seed round investment co-led by Partech and Orange Digital Ventures and followed by Consonance Investmen…
Read more »20 January 2020
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has committed US$15mn to TLcom’s TIDE Africa Fund to support early-stage high-growth start-ups across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With a presence in the key financial hubs of Lagos an…
Read more »27 November 2019
DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH is supporting African small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups to gain access to long-term financing more easily. It has committed EUR30mn to the AfricaGrow fund of funds, managed by Al…
Read more »11 November 2019
EUR40mn in guarantees for FMO’s innovative early-stage investment program Today, at the Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, FMO and the European Commission (EC) signed the guarantee agreement for the FMO Ventures Program. The EC has provided EUR40mn…
Read more »18 October 2019
The African Development Bank on Thursday signed off on its EUR12.5mn equity investment in Adiwale Fund 1, a first-generation private equity fund targeting high growth potential Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in francophone West Africa. The Ban…
Read more »15 October 2019
Climate change poses an existential threat to our societies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Africa – the most vulnerable continent to climate change, both in terms of impact and ability to mitigate damage... read more.
Read more »09 October 2019
Verod Capital Management Limited (Verod) is pleased to announce, via its sophomore fund, Verod Capital Growth Fund II LP (Fund II), that it has completed an agreement and received regulatory approvals to fully exit its ownership of UTL Trust Management Se…
Read more »16 September 2019
FairMoney, a Paris-based fintech startup, has closed a $10 million-euro Series A round of investment led by Flourish, a venture of The Omidyar Group, the partners of DST Global, and existing seed investors Newfund, Speedinvest, and Le Studio VC. Launched …
Read more »17 July 2019
AHL Venture Partners, a leading impact investment firm in East Africa, has today announced, acting as lead investor, an equity investment in a Kenyan company, Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services Limited (“Cropnuts”). The investment is a co-investment with …
Read more »26 April 2019
Sub-Saharan hospitality investment platform Kasada Capital Management has reached a first close on its maiden fund Kasada Hospitality Fund LP with equity commitments of over USD 500 million. This is in line with a first announcement disclosed in July 2018…
Read more »31 January 2019
Partech announces the final closing of its Partech Africa fund at €125 M ($143 M) above its hard cap and establishes East Africa presence. The Partech Africa Fund achieves a final closing at €125M, more than double the size of its first closing a year …
Read more »18 December 2018
The Hague, 18 December 2018 - Dutch development bank FMO has taken its first step into the financial sector of Africa’s second most populous country, with the extension of a 65% partial guarantee on a BIRR 108mn (US$ 4.0mn) loan by the Commercial Bank of …
Read more »02 November 2018
London/Singapore – October 30 2018: GTR Ventures, the world’s first investment and venture-building platform specialised in trade and supply chain, has announced an investment in Orbitt – a pan-African focused fintech deals platform. Orbitt connects inve…
Read more »06 September 2018
FMO will co-invest USD 1.7 Million alongside Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, managed by Quona Capital, in South African-based Point of Sale payments Provider Yoco in a joint funding round totaling USD 16 Million. It marks the first direct equity investmen…
Read more »23 June 2018
Nairobi, Lagos, London - TLcom Capital (TLcom), the VC fund started in London two decades ago with over US$300mn under management and tech investments spanning Europe, Israel and the US, today announced that commitments to the TIDE Africa Fund have hit US…
Read more »14 May 2018
Accra, Ghana - May 14th 2018 - Oasis Capital Ghana, a West African private equity fund manager, announces the final closing of its second fund, the Oasis Africa VC Fund (“Fund II”), at US$50.5mn at 31st December 2017. The fund will invest in Small and Med…
Read more »26 April 2018
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced that it led the US$8.6mn Series A equity investment in Africa’s Talking, a Kenyan based communication-platform-as-a-service (“cPAAS”) API startup, to enable the startup to expand its footprint across …
Read more »03 October 2017
Vakayi Capital, a venture capital firm, has availed about US$400,000 to Homelux Property Development which will go towards the development of residential stands in Tynwald Harare. Vakayi is an SME-focused fund which was established last year. It has to da…
Read more »26 June 2017
TLcom Capital, the VC fund started in London two decades ago with over US$300mn under management and tech investments spanning Europe, Israel and the US, today announced that commitments to the TIDE Africa Fund have hit US$40mn. TIDE Africa is the first…
Read more »28 April 2017
Oasis Capital Ghana, managers for Ebankese Venture Fund (EVF) and Oasis Africa VC Fund (OAF), are pleased to announce their investment in Everpure Holdings Ltd (Everpure), a water bottling company operating in Ghana. The investment was made out of OAF, an…
Read more »22 August 2016
African financial technology company Zoona has successfully raised US$15mn (ZAR200mn) in a second round of financing. This Series B round is led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and will help Zoona scale up…
Read more »22 July 2016
CDC Group plc (CDC), the UK’s development finance institution, and LafargeHolcim have today announced the creation of 14Trees, a joint-venture that aims to accelerate the production and commercialization of Durabric - an environmentally-friendly, affordab…
Read more »17 June 2016
London, UK, 2 June 2016: The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) today announce a series of changes to the leadership and membership of its Legal & Regulatory (L&R) Committee. Folake Elias-Adebowale, Partner at Udo Udoma…
Read more »25 November 2015
Cape Town, South Africa, 25 November 2015: Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), a boutique of Old Mutual Investment Group, has announced an agreement to acquire the 50% of African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) that it does not already ow…
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Counting down 6 days till AVCA's next ESG training session where our facilitators will be touching on social issues… https://t.co/ITgB5bSotS
#AVCAMemberNews: Metier-backed AfricaREN launches construction of Kodeni Power Plant, the largest power plant in Bu… https://t.co/V7zQ1z1BWI
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In @crossboundary's latest report, we discover how to unlock private capital for nature-based solutions, and why na… https://t.co/w2acQcFBzU
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