Investors in South Africa

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (“DBSA”) is a development finance institution wholly owned by the South African Government. Its purpose is to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development to improve the quality of life of the people in South Africa, SADC and Rest of Africa by providing financial and non-financial investments in the social and economic infrastructure sectors.

A venture capital fund of experienced entrepreneurs, aligned mentors and investors that reinvest their knowledge and wealth in a next generation of entrepreneurs, to create thriving businesses and impact at scale.

Established in 2008 as the non-profit arm of Meltwater, MEST is an Africa-wide technology entrepreneur training program, internal seed fund, and hub that provides training, investment, and mentorship to tech entrepreneurs.

African Lion Investment Holdings was formed with the sole purpose of developing and marketing technology solutionsAfrican Lion Limited specializes in early venture investments. It seeks to invest in the coal and consumable fuels, aluminum, copper ores, gold ores, and precious gemstone mining and production sectors.

VentureSouth is an early-stage investment firm that backs entrepreneurs and ventures in the Southeastern United States. As a member of the Angel Capital Association, it provides a network for investors to access curated opportunities and professional investment administration while supporting scalable, technology-driven startups.

Future Africa is a pioneering venture capital firm dedicated to investing in bold and visionary leaders who are building global businesses to address Africa's most pressing challenges. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, providing both financial support and strategic guidance to startups that have the potential to create significant impact across the continent. Future Africa's portfolio includes a diverse range of companies spanning various sectors, all united by a common goal of driving sustainable development and economic growth in Africa. By partnering with entrepreneurs who are committed to innovation and excellence, Future Africa aims to foster a thriving ecosystem of businesses that contribute to the continent's future prosperity.

MSouth Capital is a private equity firm specializes in management buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, generational transfers, other corporate initiatives and lower middle-market investments. It invests in companies based primarily in the South includes Alabama, Arkansas, the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. It typically invests in companies up to $30 million check size with at least $3 million of EBITDA and companies typically valued between $25 million and $200 million. The firm makes minority equity investments (up to 49% ownership). MSouth Capital was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia

Villgro Africa is an incubator and impact investor that supports emerging healthcare and life science startups across Africa through seed funding, technical assistance, and business incubation.

Innovate Africa is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and seed/startup investments. The firm seeks to be sector agnostic including investment in innovative technology. The firm seeks to invest in Africa region. Innovate Africa is based in Ikeja, Nigeria with additional office in Glen Allen, Virginia.

OceanHub Africa is an Accelerator specializing in water utilities, ocean minded incubation and startups. The firm prefers to invest potential non-dilutive funding of up to $10,000. OceanHub Africa was founded in 2019 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We invest in B2B tech, Energy, Renewables, Water, Agtech and Fintech sector businesses in the pre to early growth phase with low to no product risk.

We invest in early-stage technology startups in Africa with female or diverse co-founding teams.

SouthPac Partners is a private investment group based in Vancouver, BC focused on private operating businesses and real estate assets.

InfraCo Africa seeks to alleviate poverty by mobilising private sector expertise and finance to develop high quality infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa.InfraCo Africa was established in 2004. Since then we have successfully developed 11 projects through to Financial Close, of which we have fully exited three. InfraCo Africa currently has twelve projects under development, five projects under construction and four operational assets. We are also exploring a range of new opportunities across sub-Saharan Africa. As a publicly funded company, we endeavour to recover our costs and recycle our funding. We therefore balance cost and risk across the projects that we are developing. We will not subsidise returns for the private sector or other investors in the project. We seek to exit a project once sufficient investment has been mobilised or an alternative source of financing has been secured: this may mean topping up or retaining early-stage risk capital through construction and during initial operations. To date we have fully exited three projects, the costs we’ve recovered are being reinvested into new projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

ParkSouth Ventures is a growth-oriented private investment firm specializing in growth investments in lower middle market companies, buy & build strategies, family succession, acquisitions, recapitalization, strategic M&A, partner buyout, and management buyout. It focuses on investing in and partnering with founder and entrepreneur-owned businesses. It invests in both organic and acquisition-led growth initiatives. The firm seeks to invest in service sector. The firm prefers to invest in the United States. The firm prefers to make control investments. It targets businesses with at least $ 15 million in revenue. ParkSouth Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Charlotte North Carolina.

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded on a platform of intellectual curiosity. We bring together the brightest minds, cutting-edge technology, and expansive sets of data to solve incredibly challenging problems. We commit our own capital to trade financial products around the clock and around the globe, and we innovate by building virtually all of our own trading technology from scratch. Our traders, quantitative researchers, and technologists work side-by-side to develop and implement our trading strategies, making us leaders in high performance, low latency trading.

South Park Commons (SPC) is a community designed to help technologists, builders, and domain experts transition from the ideation phase to launching their next venture. Founded by individuals from companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Meraki, and Stripe, SPC offers a supportive environment for those exploring startup ideas, validating research pathways, or building conviction in new endeavors. The community emphasizes open-ended exploration, learning, idea testing, and relationship-building, providing a platform for members to discover impactful ways to contribute to the world. SPC operates on a no-membership-fee model, expecting members to actively participate and engage with the community.

With over 100 years of collective professional experience, South Suez offers a unique, diversified investment platform that provides access to African primary, secondary and co-investment markets. A flexible approach to investing, teamwork and information-sharing across these strategies is critical in ensuring sustainable investment success.

Southfield Capital is a private equity firm that invests in exceptional, growing companies in the lower middle market. The firm makes control investments in North American companies generating $4 - 20 million in EBITDA with proven business models, attractive growth and profitability trends, and strong leadership.

Intersouth Partners is a venture capital firm based in Durham, North Carolina, specializing in early-stage investments in technology and life science companies across the Southeastern United States. Established in 1985, the firm has invested in over 100 private companies and manages $780 million across seven venture capital limited partnerships, making it one of the largest venture capital funds in the Southeast. ( Intersouth focuses on sectors such as software, semiconductors, digital media, clean technology, and security in technology, and medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, and agricultural biotechnology in life sciences. The firm typically leads or co-leads investment rounds, making initial equity investments ranging from $500,000 to $8 million, with an average total investment of $12 million per company over multiple financing rounds. ( Intersouth's experienced team offers full-cycle support, including technology assessment, management team development, corporate partnering, sales growth, and successful exits. As of now, Intersouth Partners is not making new investments.

Southern Cross Group is a A private equity firm with a unique and active approachto identifying and workingsynergistically with portfolio company management. atin american team with an unwavering commitment to sustainablevalue creation. Our local teams have significant experience in investing prominently throughout the region in a wide variety of industries.

Africa Angels Network invests in Africa and Philippines-focused startups, primarily in the Tech sector. Our mission is to fuel economic growth in Africa and Philippines by identifying and investing in high potential startups. Furthermore, we match the entrepreneurs with highly qualified mentors specifically related to their industries. Our new partner that we invest in. Philippines personal loans company:

At Ascent, we have a bold mission. Over the coming years, we are developing and nurturing a league of “enterprise champions” that sets the bar for business standards in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, and the Greater Eastern Africa region.

African Guarantee Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in making equity investments and loan guarantees for start-ups and small and medium enterprises to financial institutions. It does not guarantee transactions involving the following activities : tobacco or tobacco products; armament productions or where 25% or more of the total production output or turnover of the portfolio company is derived from military-related activities; beverages with an alcoholic content exceeding 15%; casino or companies where the principal source of income is gambling; speculative investments in real estate or commodities; immoral and illegal activities; production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor and/or child labor; trade in wildlife or wildlife products; production or trade in radioactive materials, unbounded asbestos fibers, and hazardous chemicals; and investments harmful to the environment. The firm focuses on the following sectors: agriculture, agro-industries, small and medium scale mining, oil and related services, manufacturing, building and construction, energy, telecommunication, transport, tourism, and trade in Africa. African Guarantee Fund was founded on January 1, 2012 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya with additional offices in Lomé, Togo; and Port Louis, Mauritius.