Universum Core African Fund targets up to $20m at final close
HAVAÍC, an African focused venture capital investor, has announced the second close of its Universum Core African Fund, a joint venture between HAVAÍC and Universum Wealth.
HAVAÍC, an African focused venture capital investor, has announced the second close of its Universum Core African Fund, a joint venture between HAVAÍC and Universum Wealth.
Adjuvant Capital has announced an oversubscribed $300m Global Health Technology Fund, focused on accelerating the development of medical innovations for historically overlooked public health challenges.
African Alliance Asset Management, has joined forces with Tshikululu Social Investments, a social investment manager and advisor, to offer global investors Thrive Africa, a unique Impact Investment offering for Africa.
Phatisa Food Fund 2 (PFF 2) has reached a $143m final close following an $82m joint commitment from a a group of development finance institutions (DFIs) – CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO.
SPE Capital Partners has announced the final close of SPE AIF I, an Africa-focused private equity fund, at $258m, well above its initial hard cap of $200m.
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, has successfully completed a capital increase of $80m for its flagship pan-African infrastructure fund, AIIF3.
Secha Capital Partners has announced the first close of its second fund, Secha Capital Impact, a Southern Africa early-stage operations-focused impact private equity fund.
Bpifrance and Proparco have announced the first closing of Averroès Africa, their fourth fund-of-funds (FoF) for Africa, at €55m with a target size of €100m.
Eos Capital, a Namibian private equity fund manager, has launched its third fund - the Euphrates Agriculture Fund, which aims to facilitate the industrialization of the agriculture sector, deliver social impact and provide medium term returns to investors.
The Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF), a US government-funded private entity, has invested $50m in Lorax Capital Partners (LCP) Fund II, which has raised $142m for its first close.
Endeavor Catalyst has announced the final closing of Fund III, a $134m venture capital fund through which it plans to continue to invest in Endeavor Entrepreneurs in emerging and underserved markets globally.
XSML, a private equity fund manager active in Central and East Africa, has announced the first close of its African Rivers Fund III (ARF III) at $54m.
The SDG Frontier Fund has reached its first closing at €25.3m with the participation of nine Belgian private investors together with BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries.
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I has raised €76m in the first round of funding, attracting various institutional investors.