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Private Equity
Mastercard will become a minority stakeholder in Airtel Africa's mobile money unit, joining TPG's Rise Fund as a shareholder in the subsidiary, Airtel Mobile Commerce, by investing...
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Mastercard becomes latest investor to back Airtel Africa's mobile money subsidiary
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Private Equity
Apis Partners has exited its holding in Tutuka, exchanging its 62.6% stake in the payments business for an undisclosed stake in the business's acquirer,...
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Private Equity
ADQ has agreed to buy the equity interests owned by Bausch Health Companies and a number of other investors in Amoun Pharmaceuticals, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of generic drugs...
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Private Equity
Infrastructure investment firm Meridiam is backing a two-year-old developer and operator of sustainable data centres in Africa, investing a total of...
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Private Equity
Criterion Africa Partners is selling Peak Timbers, an integrated forestry business in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) which the private equity firm acquired in 2012 on behalf of...
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Private Debt
TLG Capital announced an investment on behalf of the London-based private debt and equity investor's Africa Growth Impact Fund (AGIF) last week. The open-ended credit fund is investing up to...
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Venture Capital
Partech Africa has led a group of investors backing an extension of Tugende's Series A round which closed late last year having raised a total of...
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Private Equity
The Sovereign Fund of Egypt has made a commitment to the Egypt Education Fund, a private equity fund sponsored by EFG Hermes Private Equity, helping it reach its third close...
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Private Equity
Infra Impact Investment Managers, a Cape Town-based investment firm founded at the beginning of last year, announced the first close for its maiden fund last week...
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Private Debt
Boston-based Root Capital has had its lending capacity to small and growing agricultural businesses in many of the world's emerging markets boosted by an investment by...
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Highlighted Job of the Week |
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Investment Associate at 500 Startups // 500.co
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Luanda, Angola, June 15th to June 16th, 2021
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Virtual Event, April 20th to April 23rd, 2021
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Virtual Event, April 24th, 2021
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Virtual Event, May 15th to May 16th, 2021
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IFC & EMPEA's 22nd Global Private Equity Conference // empea.org
Virtual Event, May 17th to May 20th, 2021
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Online and Juba, South Sudan, June 29th to June 30th, 2021
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Washington, DC, United States, June 30th to July 1st, 2021
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London, United Kingdom, October 10th to October 12th, 2021
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