HAVAIC leads investment in SA tech startup
African boutique investment and advisory firm HAVAIC, together with funding from UK-based investor Kevin Gaskell, have injected R6.5m into South African creative technology startup delvv.io.
African boutique investment and advisory firm HAVAIC, together with funding from UK-based investor Kevin Gaskell, have injected R6.5m into South African creative technology startup delvv.io.
Visionnaire Ventures-led investment consortium has invested $25m in a robotics company Zipline to deliver blood and life saving medical supplies in Rwanda.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) has invested $25m in a new company set up in Sierra Leone by a private sector joint venture to build a 57MW, oil-fired, power station at Freetown.
CDC Group, University Ventures and Savannah Fund have invested $12m in UNICAF, a global educational online organization.
iono.fm, a South African podcast and audio streaming services, has received $175k (R2.5m) in a funding round led by Clifftop Colony.
Flint Atlantic Capital Partners, a Nigerian healthcare impact investment firm, has invested in Africa Healthcare Network (AHN), the largest dialysis and kidney care services chain in Rwanda.
BHR Partners, a Chinese private equity firm, has agreed to acquire TF Holdings, a Bermuda holding company that owns an 80% interest in Tenke Fungurume Mining for $1.136bn in cash and contingent consideration of up to $51.4m.
Cactus Capital, the investment arm of Cactus Advisors, has announced investments into seed and growth stage African tech ventures, Flutterwave and E-Factor.
The UNICEF Innovation Fund has made its first investment in Africa by acquiring an undisclosed stake in 9Needs, a blockchain startup in South Africa.
African Rainbow Capital has acquired a 49% interest in Sinayo Securities, a Johannesburg-based equities brokerage firm, to expand its institutional client base and broaden its brokerage services.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) has participated in a syndicate led by the Dutch development bank, FMO, to provide a $14.7m loan to enable the construction of a 10MW solar farm in the Tororo area of Eastern Uganda.
Goodwell Investments, through its fund Goodwell MDC III, has invested in Innovative Microfinance, a microfinance institution operating in Northern Ghana.
AOG has transferred 75.1% ownership of Addax Bioenergy, its sugarcane bioethanol and renewable electricity operation in Makeni, Sierra Leone, to a group of investors led by Sunbird Bioenergy Africa (Sunbird Bioenergy group).
Mediterrania Capital Partners has acquired through its second fund, Mediterrania Capital II, a stake in Université Privée de Marrakech (UPM) to support its development plan.