Investors in South Sudan

Sudan Angels is the first Angel Investors Network in Sudan dedicated to connecting early stage Sudanese businesses with angel investors . It will bring together businesses looking for investment with investors who has the capital, contacts and knowledge to help them succeed and develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem

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.

We partner with the most ambitious, dedicated, hard-working and brave teams that dare to build great companies and disturb the status quo.STRAIGHT TO THE BESTFinancing tech companies on their mission to change the world.With offices in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Skopje, South Central Ventures (SCV) focuses on tech companies in the SE Europe.Our investment strategy is targeted primarily to early stage and growth investments in technology companies. The main purpose of the invested capital is to facilitate the international business expansion and growth of the most promising tech startups that can show traction and prove their potential to “make it big”.

50 South Capital Advisors, LLC is a financial service arm of Northern Trust Corporation specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. In fund of funds, the firm invests in secondaries. Under private equity capacity, the firm seeks to invest in middle market and lower middle market, early stage with focuses on buyout funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, special situation funds, infrastructure funds, and fund of funds. In direct investments, the firm seeks to make venture capital, buyout, turnaround, growth, credit, real assets, distressed debt, syndicate participation, and mezzanine debt investments. The firm also considers primary, secondary and direct co-investment. It also makes hedge fund investments. The firm focuses on United States, North America, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. It seeks to make secondary investments between $1 million and $30 million. 50 South Capital Advisors, LLC was founded in 2014 and is based in Chicago, Illinois and additional office in Indianapolis, Indiana.

South Branch Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, acquisitions, industry consolidation, recapitalizations, distressed, equity and debt investments in lower middle market companies. The firm only invests in companies headquartered or located in the Chicagoland Area. Its typical bite size ranges between $1 million to $50 million in companies with revenues of $10 million to $100 million. The firm may take non-control, control and strategic partnerships. It holds its investments for three years to strategic exit or evergreen. The firm only seeks minority and majority stakes. South Branch Capital Partners, LLC is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Burr Ridge, Illinois.

South Asia Technology Partners, LLC, is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and growth capital investments, from seed through the Series B funding round.. The firm focuses on the logistics, transportation, e-commerce and related technology sectors. It seeks to make investments in companies that are operating in South Asia primarily in India and Bangladesh. The firm prefers to invest in companies that have annual revenues above $1 million. South Asia Technology Partners, LLC is based in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.

South Dakota Innovation Partners, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and early stage investments. As a lead investor, it seeks to invest in regional start-up or early-stage companies. It typically makes investments in companies in South Dakota and Midwest in the United States. The firm invests in science and technology based companies with a focus on energy, health sciences, and engineering-based technology. It typically invests between $100,000 and $500,000 preceding a subsequent capital round or exit strategy. South Dakota Innovation Partners, LLC is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

XSML is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and funds of funds investments. Within the direct investments, it specializes in seed, start up, SMEs, early venture, emerging growth, growth capital, mid venture, later stage, buyout, and mezzanine investments in small and medium-sized companies. The firm also specializes in venture debt investments and offers loans. For fund of fund investments, it seeks to invest in mezzanine funds. It primarily invests in agribusiness, electronic/ electrical equipment, education, healthcare, financial services, information communications and technology (ICT), transportation, hospitality, warehousing, tourism, and retail & wholesale, manufacturing, business support service sector. The firm seeks to invest in emerging markets with a focus on Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central and East African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm invest between $0.3 million and $10 million. It prefers to make equity investment between $0.1 million and $7.5 million and debt investments between $0.2 million to $5 million with sales range between $1 million to $25 million. For fund of fund investments, it typically invests between $5 and $25 million. The firm prefer to take a majority stake. XSML was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in Kampala, Uganda; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Launda, Angola; and Nairobi, Kenya.

Impact Fund Denmark is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing in the form of equity, mezzanine, loans, debt and guarantees. It makes socially conscious investments. It makes directly & indirectly investments. Under directly investing, it invests in early stage & growth capital investments. Under indirectly investments, it invests in venture capital funds. It specializes in establishing new companies, setting up joint ventures between Danish companies and local business partners and in acquiring existing companies. It provides financing to private-sector projects in the developing countries. The firm can only invest in countries whose 2008 GNI capita income is below $0.03 million with an exemption granted to South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. Also, the host countries of investments must be on the OECD’s DAC list of development aid recipients. It invests where private sector financing is unavailable or insufficient. It invests in sustainable growth and high-impact solutions in developing markets/countries. It does not invest in Forced labor or child labor, Ozone depleting substances, PCB's (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and other specific, hazardous pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides or chemicals, wildlife or products regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Unsustainable fishing methods, Cross-border trade in waste and waste products, unless compliant with the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations, Destruction of High Conservation Value areas, Radioactive materials and unbounded asbestos fibres, Pornography and/or prostitution, Racist and/or anti-democratic media, Alcoholic Beverages (except beer and wine), Tobacco, Weapons and munitions, Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises, Standalone fossil fuelled power plants, Drilling, exploration, extraction, refining and sale of crude oil, natural gas and thermal coal, Storage, supporting infrastructure (pipelines etc.), transportation and logistics, and services primarily related to fossil fuels, Any business using captive coal for power and/or heat generation, Electricity generation from peat and activities leading to deforestation, Investments and/or other projects that aim to produce or make use of agricultural or forestry products, Biomaterials and biofuel production, Export-oriented agribusiness mod, Meat and dairy industries. It prefers investing in commercial services and supplies, biofuels, electric power by solar and wind energy and irrigation systems sector. The firm seeks to invest in climate and Agribusiness. It focuses its investments in Green energy & infrastructure with focus on Clean, affordable renewable energy, Waste recycling and management, Energy efficiency, Water access and management; Financial Services with focus on Microfinance, MSME financing, Development banks and Insurance; Sustainable food systems with focus on Climate farming, Storage and distribution, Processing, Forest and land; Healthcare with focus on Hospitals and clinics, Pharmacy chains, Diagnostic services, Pharmaceuticals & medical equipment. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Africa focusing on North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Central America, Middle East and Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Jordan, Denmark, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep., Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, São Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Asia focusing on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey, Mexico, Kiribati, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Federal States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Western Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, East Timor, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen; Europe focusing on Albania, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Belarus, Balkans, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine; and Latin America with a focus on Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Ecuador, and Jamaica and North Asia, United States of America, Latin America and parts of Europe. It seeks to invest between from DKK15 million ($2.32 million) and DKK500 million ($77.52 million). The firm can invest up to DKK350 million ($51.34 million) per company. The firm seeks to co-invest with Danish businesses in projects based in developing countries. It prefers to take minority stake between 10% to 30% and up to 49 per cent in small projects. It prefers to take a board membership. The firm prefers to exit its investments within five to seven years when the loan has been repaid or the shares have been sold. The firm also offers special assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises which employs less than 300 employees, with an annual revenue of up to DKK 300 million ($53.16 million) and has a positive result in two out of three latest financial years. It also provides advisory services to business investments in developing countries. The firm makes two thirds of its investments in partnership and can also provide additional financing. Impact Fund Denmark was founded in 1967 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional offices across Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa.

Kinyeti Venture Capital is an investment company that makes risk capital investments in profitable enterprises in South Sudan. The investment company was established in 2012 as a joint venture between Norfund and SwedFund.We take our name from Mt. Kinyeti, one of South Sudan’s highest points, which speaks to the aspirations that we have for our investments and their role in building a thriving private sector in South Sudan.