Private Equity

Adinah is an investment management company focused on investing in private companies and taking advantage of unlisted investment opportunities in new and old companies that are innovative, disruptive and solve structural inefficiencies in the value and supply chain of companies and economies.

Adinah was founded in 2013 with the sole focus of making private company, start-up venture and tactical investments in South and Sub-Saharan Africa. It was consciously set up as an owner led and managed, “new” South African company, cognizant of the dignity and responsibility towards the countries and

Kagiso Tiso Holdings is a pan African investment firm based in South Africa.

KTH is an investment holding company which, through its legacy companies Kagiso Trust Investments and Tiso Group, boasts a track record of investment performance and creating long term sustainable shareholder value. KTH currently has a portfolio of investments comprising market leading companies across key sectors. These companies are generally high-growth or cash generative and meet strict investment criteria of, inter alia, generating market related returns for KTH. KTH maintains a long term horizon and can partner

Getihu is an investment fund for software and data as a service startups in South Africa.

Getihu is involved in helping innovative early stage startups reach their full potential. Our investment is more than just financial. We commit to working with our portfolio companies as partners, putting our full support and resources behind global expansion.

Getihu comes from the Chinese word for ‘single entity’, and is a word that has is commonly used for technology entrepreneurs. Our vision is to create a developing world innovation hub across Cape Town, London and Lyon, providing a home for

Convergence Partners is an investment management firm focused on the technology, telecommunications and media sectors.

Convergence Partners, founded in 2006,has a proven track record of developing new investment opportunities as well as actively adding value to investments across the life cycle of ICT assets.

As impact investors, Convergence Partners brings its skills, experience and capital to accelerate communications access and ICT infrastructure development on the Continent, focusing on initiatives that increase availability of communications, broadband services and new technology

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

AIIM understands the African business environment and has experience spanning a range of infrastructure asset classes. We develop, create, advise and manage private equity infrastructure funds. AIIM has funds under management of USD2.4 billion and a track record extending across seven infrastructure funds. The funds managed and advised by AIIM are designed to invest long-term institutional

Collins Private Equity is a branch of Collins Group, an independent investment banking boutique with a cross-border, cross-ocean focus.

The Collins Group comprises of a group of companies which are subsidiaries of property hybrid, Tradehold Limited.

WE ARE PREDOMINANTLY A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT GROUP

whether taking on the challenges of new developments and builds, refurbishing existing properties or looking for other property opportunities.

We are run in a very hands-on and practical fashion by an entrepreneurial team who are passionate about their business.

Capricorn is an owner-managed investment business focused on private equity.

In 2017, our record of successful investments attracted a well-respected strategic shareholder in the Ellerine Group. Capricorn has acquired and advised on the acquisition of shares in a diverse portfolio of both private and public companies, contributing to a highly lauded investment track record.

Capricorn has played a key role in establishing and growing numerous businesses through our investments in asset management, lending, insurance, retail and industrial investment holding companies. We have strategically

Arise invests in companies around the financial sector.

Arise is a leading African investment company that partners with sustainable, locally-owned Financial Services Providers in Sub Saharan Africa. The company was founded by three cornerstone investors namely Rabobank, Norfund and FMO. Our vision is to contribute to the economic growth in Africa and the prosperity of its people by increasing financial inclusion and employment, strengthening rural development and contributing to local prosperity.

Acorn is a specialist private equity fund manager and investment advisor focused exclusively on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Acorn provides a platform for high-net-worth individuals, institutions and funding partners to participate directly in private equity, which is currently done through an investment holding company, Acorn Agri & Food. Prior to Acorn Agri & Food, the Acorn General Fund One was a limited liability partnership that might be replicated in future investment vehicles.

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RMB Ventures Limited is a private equity arm of Rand Merchant Bank.

RMB Ventures is an on-balance private equity investor and a subsidiary of FirstRand Bank Limited – the largest financial services group (by market capitalisation) in Africa.RMB Ventures was born in the mid-1990s, a child of the Corporate Finance business who saw the opportunity to invest in equity alongside RMB’s client base. The business has over the past 15 years evolved into one of the largest, most successful private equity franchises in Southern Africa, with a total of twelve transactors — investing in more than 40