Creation Capital, a specialist private credit asset manager, has closed a R75m private debt investment into Quest Capital Solutions, an SME non-bank on-lender in the logistics sector.
Mediterrania Capital Partners (MCP), a private equity firm focused on growth investments for SMEs and mid-cap companies in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, has invested in Dislog Dispositifs Médicaux (DDM) through a DM540 million capital increase together with CDG Invest Growth.
Mergence Investment Managers has announced an additional R60m investment in Solarise Africa, a sustainable energy solutions company operating across the continent.
Goodwell Investments and Alitheia Capital have announced an undisclosed investment in Hinckley E-Waste Recycling, a Nigeria-based recycler, through uMunthu II, a fund providing smart equity to early growth stage companies throughout Africa.
Kholo Capital Mezzanine Debt Fund I has provided a R200m mezzanine debt growth funding facility into Bayport Securitisation to support the roll out of the Bayport SA Financial Wellness Solutions Programme.
The Credit Fund of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Adjustment Fund has successfully closed its first investment, committing $10m to Telecel Global Services, through a senior secured amortising loan.
Development Partners International (DPI), through funds it advises, and co-investors, have signed a binding agreement for a $190m minority stake investment in Alameda Healthcare, Egypt’s private healthcare group.
Lagata, a specialist in forestry investment, has led a new funding round into Miro, the sustainable forestry and plywood manufacturing company which employs over 4,000 people in Sierre Leone and Ghana
AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF), has led a R200m funding round for Nile.ag, an agricultural technology platform, with a co-investment from FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, as well as renewed support from existing investor, Platform Investment Partners.
Nedbank CIB and Investec Investment Banking have provided a strategic funding package comprising equity and structured debt to Master Plastics, a dynamic Group of predominantly food and agricultural-focused businesses.
Vital Capital, a high-performing impact investor focused on addressing critical needs in growth markets, has made a strategic investment in Vastpoint to help scale its efforts in transforming land use, ownership and management in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions.
A consortium of investors, including RDF Ghana, Sahel Capital, and ABSA Bank, have invested over $1m in Mariseth Farms, a women-owned agribusiness in Ghana.
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (Nedbank CIB), an African banking partner to corporates and institutions across the continent, has extended its sustainable finance offering to Senegal with the closure of a €19.4m sustainability-linked development and term loan for Kasada, an independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to the hospitality sector in Africa.
Mergence Investment Managers, an infrastructure investment firm, has acquired a controlling stake in strategic digital infrastructure assets located within the residential precincts of Waterfall City, Gauteng.
