Two important items from Helios Investment Partners, one of Africa's higher-profile private equity investors, feature in this week's digest. In the first, the London-based firm has acquired a 35% stak...
It was transactions at the lower end of the deal value spectrum that made the news last week. In fact, there were no pure private equity or growth capital deals to speak of...just three venture deals ...
There was an interesting crop of private capital deals in Africa last week. The biggest, by a considerable margin, comes to us courtesy of Transaction Capital, a listed financial services investment g...
While much of the action in Africa's private equity and venture capital markets took place at the southern end of the continent last week, we start this week with a portfolio company acquisition deal ...
North Africa was the setting for some of the most notable items of deal and fundraising news on the continent last week. Tana Africa Capital made its second investment in Egypt, backing AHI, majority ...
Phatisa came out with news on the second investment for its second food fund last week. The South African private equity firm is leading a group of investors acquiring a majority stake in Farming and ...
Two publicly-listed companies were targets of private equity interest in Africa last week. The larger of the two, if it comes off, is based in South Africa. Capitalworks, a private equity firm has sub...
Technology investments featured largely in last week's private capital markets activity in Africa. The biggest of them all, or potentially the biggest, came courtesy of Actis which made its first deal...
We lead this week with a story involving a Fintech startup and its high profile investors, some of whom are backing the firm for the second time. The company, JUMO, has raised $55 million in a mix of ...
Funds and fundraising news from Africa caught many people's attention last week. Of particular note was the announcement that the spin out of Standard Chartered's private equity business which we firs...
African Infrastructure Investment Managers brought us one of the bigger private equity fund closes of the year last week. The Old Mutual-owned fund manager raised a total of $320 million for AIIF 3, i...
Africa's private capital markets saw an eclectic clutch of deals last week. We lead with probably the biggest of the week, value-wise. Tiso Blackstar, a JSE-listed investment holding company has agree...