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Private Equity
Nurture Foods, EXEO Capital's new food sector investment vehicle, announced its first investment last week, taking a significant minority stake in a well-established artisanal cheese business that produces...
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EXEO Capital's food sector investment platform backs artisanal cheese maker for first deal
Image Credit: Pixabay
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Private Equity
Pearl Capital Partners, managers of the Yield Uganda Investment Fund, has announced an investment of equity and debt in Sekajja Agro Farms, a poultry business based in Kampala. The €12 million fund is...
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Private Debt
Standard Bank, Citi, CDC Group, and Norfund are partnering to provide Greenlight Planet Kenya with a Kenya shilling denominated sustainable financing facility. Worth the equivalent of...
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Venture Capital
Having backed Autochek's $3.4 million pre-seed round almost 12 months ago, Africa-focused venture capital investors TLcom Capital and 4DX Ventures are back, leading a group of other returning and ...
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Private Equity
CDG Invest Growth, (the former CDG Capital Private Equity) has announced the first close for its latest fund, Capmezzanine III, garnering commitments from a range of institutional investors, several of whom...
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Private Equity
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners' Cold Chain Solutions East African Fund has added another development finance institution to its roster of LPs. Last week, the Board of the...
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Private Equity
Following last week's reports of a potential $20 million investment in Ezdehar's second fund from IFC, the World Bank's private-sector investment arm, the private equity fund manager is on the brink of...
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Projects & Portfolio Companies... |
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Datacenters
South Africa-based Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers has teamed up with Digital Realty, an NYSE-listed provider of global cloud- and carrier-neutral data center solutions to buy Medallion Data...
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Solar
A new clean energy investment platform company set up by Metier, FMO, and Africa REN, an IPP with operations in West Africa, has made its first deal...
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Strategies, Trends & Perspectives... |
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Strategies
The Eastern & Southern Trade & Development Bank (or TDB) and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (or ICD) have agreed to work together to provide financing...
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Trends
New analysis from global law firm Linklaters has found that Africa-focused infrastructure investment funds have set a record-setting fundraising pace this year, landing more than triple the amount of capital...
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Perspectives
Some perspective from Brookings, the Washington D.C.-based think tank, on the policies and strategies African governments should employ to help build resilient recoveries quickly and effectively...
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Companies, People & Profiles... |
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Company
African Export-Import Bank (or Afreximbank) has launched the process of raising several billion dollars worth of additional equity to support its plans to double its annual lending capacity and balance sheet...
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Company
The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (or BIO), Belgium's development finance institution, has opened its first liaison office in West Africa, choosing...
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People
DLA Piper Africa, s Swiss verein whose members are made up of the independent law firms in Africa that work closely with DLA Piper, has a new board member. The new board member is a recent recruit to...
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Highlighted Job of the Week |
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New this week...
Managing Director, Head of Impact Investing at DFC // dfc.gov
Based in Washington, D.C., United States
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Partner, ESG, EHS Dude Diligence, Transaction & Sustainable Finance at ERM // erm.com
Based in Cape Town, South Africa or another ERM office on the continent
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Online and Cape Town, South Africa, November 15th, 2021
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London, United Kingdom, November 2nd to November 4th, 2021
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Online, November 3rd to November 4th, 2021
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Online & Maputo, Mozambique, November 9th to November 11th, 2021
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Hermanus, South Africa, November 11th to November 13th, 2021
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London, United Kingdom, November 15th to November 17th, 2021
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Online and Cape Town, South Africa, November 16th to November 17th, 2021
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Online, November 22nd to November 23rd, 2021
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Online, November 17th to November 19th, 2021
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London, United Kingdom, November 17th to November 18th, 2021
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Online and Luanda, Angola, November 23rd to November 25th, 2021
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Online and Houston, USA, December 9th to December 10th, 2021
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