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Greetings!
Here's this week's wrap of the most interesting Africa-related private equity, infrastructure, and venture capital deal stories covered over the past 7 days. Thank you, as ever, for being a reader and we look forward to continuing to keep you informed on the private capital investment themes, deals, and fundraises related to Africa throughout the coming year.
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Best wishes to everyone for a healthy, productive week.
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Private Equity
Man Capital, the investment arm of the Mansour Group, a privately-held family conglomerate, has acquired control of Right to Dream, an ecosystem of soccer academies, professional soccer clubs...
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Man Capital strikes deal with soccer ecosystem Right to Dream
Image Credit: Pixabay
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Private Equity
After selling a significant portion of the 49% stake in Cash Plus it acquired in 2014 to Groupe Richbond almost two years ago, Mediterrania Capital Partners has now sold the rest...
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Private Equity
International Finance Corporation is mulling a potential equity investment in a new telecom towers company launched last year by two former Eaton Towers executives...
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Private Equity Infrastructure
As part of a deal struck between infrastructure investor Pembani Remgro and commercial and industrial (C&L) solar developer GridX in December last year, the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund has...
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Private Equity
Windhoek-based private equity firm Eos Capital is taking a minority stake in Erongo Medical Group, a private healthcare group headquartered in Walvis Bay...
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Venture Capital
TLcom Capital's $71 million TIDE Africa Fund has made its eleventh investment, leading a Series A round for Pula, an insurtech startup with offices in Nairobi and...
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Venture Capital
Quona Capital has led a group of investors backing a pre-Series A round for Cowrywise, a three-year-old digital wealth management startup based in Lagos. In total, Cowrywise has raised...
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Venture Capital
Innovex, a tech startup based in Uganda, has landed seed financing from Gaia Impact Fund to help it scale its business further across East Africa and the broader continent...
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Venture Capital
With almost all the capital raised for KNF Ventures now deployed, Knife Capital's launching KNF Ventures II, a successor 12J Venture Capital Company which will pursue much the same...
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Private Debt
KfW Development Bank is investing additional equity capital into the African Local Currency Bond Fund. The German DFI is adding another $8.4 million to the fund, lifting the total amount...
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Projects & Portfolio Companies... |
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Telecoms
Liquid Telecom, Africa's largest fibre and cloud services provider, has agreed to acquire the Middle East and Africa operations of QBS Group, a Microsft Dynamics partner network...
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Companies, People & Profiles... |
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People
Almost seven years after joining Ata Capital as an investment executive, Mamedupi Matsipa is taking up the role of Chief Executive Officer of the private equity firm, succeeding...
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People
AVCA's Board of Directors has tapped Abi Mustapha-Maduakor, one of the industry association's former chief operating officers to be its new CEO. Her appointment comes...
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Highlighted Job of the Week |
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Executive/Manager, Development Impact, Infrastructure & Climate at CDC // cdcgroup.com
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New this week...
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Maputo, Mozambique, March 8th to March 9th, 2021
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