Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, August 10th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

We lead this week with the notable news of a deal for the African unit of a global engineering consulting business by two black women-owned firms. Motseng Group and Malani Padayachee & Associates, an ...

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COFIDES invests in the venture capital fund K Fund II

by COFIDES

The fund aims to reach 70 million euros before the end of the year. Investments will be made in companies focused on research, innovation and the development of new technologies. They will focus on IC...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, August 17th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

Lagos-based Verod Capital has won the auction to acquire AXA Mansard Insurance's pension business in Nigeria. The insurance company had put the unit on the block earlier this year as part of its ratio...

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Miguel Vicente: 'Las startups buscarán ahora ser más camellos que unicornios'

by Antai Venture Studio

Para Vicente, este “es un buen momento para emprender, para romper las normas del mercado de las industrias”. Y cree que las oportunidades van a estar en ­proyectos que compitan en precio (“alg...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, August 24th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

Asset management businesses and tower companies feature largely in this week's private capital-related news from Africa. African Rainbow Capital, a financial services investment firm, is investing in ...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, August 31th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

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 ...

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Asabys Partners anuncia la incorporación de Anna Bellmunt

by Asabys Partners

'Con la incorporación de Anna reforzamos el equipo para la recta final del periodo de inversión de nuestro vehículo Sabadell Asabys, que cuenta ya con 9 participadas, algunas de ellas las anunciare...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, September 07th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

Deals in the renewable energy and healthcare sectors dominated Africa's private equity investment news last week, but we lead with news from the technology world. Actis and Convergence Partners are he...

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Creas Impacto, first B Corp fund in Spain

by Creas

The B Corp Certification measures management performance throughout the company and covers five key impact areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment and Customers. The certification process i...

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BeAble Capital lidera la inversión en Science Equity en nuestro país: la llave para conseguir una reindustrialización avanzada

by BeAble Capital

Dentro de la cadena de valor del capital privado, el Science Equity representaría una categoría de inversión, al igual que lo hacen el Venture Capital y el Private Equity, porque los fondos de Scie...

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Santander spins out its fintech venture capital arm while doubling allocated funds to $400 million

by Banco Santander

Mouro Capital aims to bring its fintech expertise, global network and strong track-record in successful investments to early and growth stage startups globally. The fund will continue to deploy capita...

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Africa Capital Digest - The Weekly Wrap, September 14th 2020

by Allan Cunningham

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...

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Addleshaw Goddard (AG), the London-headquartered international law fir...

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