28 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Ethos Mid Market Fund I has acquire a 31% equity stake in South African-based corporate Internet Service Provider, Echo.
Arshad Essa, Ethos partner, said: “We are investing behind Echo’s market penetration drive into South Africa, where the business already provides best-of-breed network solutions to an increasingly diversified client base.”
22 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Goodwell Investments has acquired a minority equity stake in Oradian, one of the world’s fastest growing providers of digital solutions for financial institutions in frontier markets.
22 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Investec Asset Management, through its Africa Private Equity capability, has recently concluded a further equity investment in Mobisol, following the initial investment made in late 2016.
15 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Amethis has acquired a significant minority stake in Groupe Premium, an industrial equipment distributor in Morocco and now present in West Africa, to support the firm’s African expansion.
15 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Ascent Rift Valley Fund (ARVF), an SME Private Equity Fund investor, has signed an investment deal that will see it acquire a majority stake in Auto Springs East Africa.
7 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
EXEO Capital via its $175m Agri-Vie Fund II has made an inaugural investment into a fast-growing aquaculture company operating on the South and West coasts of South Africa – TerraSan.
1 Feb
News > Private Equity > Deals
Mediterrania Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments for SMEs in North African and Sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired a stake in CAIRO SCAN, a private provider of medical imaging services and diagnostics in Egypt, through its third fund (MC III).
30 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and Akuo Energy, a French green IPP, have signed a financing of the Akuo Kita Solar power plant, to be built at Kita in southern Mali.
30 Jan
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wiGroup, a mobile transacting software company, has secured investment from two leading global companies to fast-track its entry into emerging and developed markets.
25 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
Injaro Investments and BIO have backed AviNiger, a poultry farm built with stringent specifications to cater for animal welfare and supply quality consumer eggs to reduce the deficit of protein foods in Niger.
24 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
Off Grid Electric has secured the largest venture equity investment into Africa – $55m in Series D funding led by Helios, acting on behalf of funds it advises, with support from GE Ventures and existing investors.
24 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
InfraCo Africa has signed a shareholders agreement with Berkeley Energy, committing $30m of equity investment to the Corbetti Geothermal project, doubling its original commitment of $15m.
24 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
InfraCo Africa will invest up to $3.1m to fund early-stage development costs for the Khoumagueli Solar PV project in the Republic of Guinea and provide experienced resource through its contracted developer, Aldwych Africa Developments Ltd (AADL).
22 Jan
News > Private Equity > Deals
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) has signed a Participation Agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide a $21m B loan to Central Termica de Ressano Garcia S.A. (CTRG).
