African Capital Alliance - Private Equity fund manager West Africa

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African Capital Alliance (ACA) is a leading private equity firm focused on Nigeria and West Africa. ACA was founded in 1997 with a mission to build Africa’s premier private equity investment firm by mobilizing capital, technology and management resources from local and international sources to unlock Africa’s private sector potential. Through our funds, we strive to improve the economic landscape of Nigeria and Africa while earning superior returns for our investors based on management excellence through professionalism and unquestionable integrity.

Citadel Capital - African private equity firm

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Citadel Capital is a private equity firm based in Cairo. Majority controlled by its senior management and employees, Citadel Capital makes control private equity investments in the Middle East and North Africa and has more than US$ 8.3 billion in investments under control, spanning 19 Platform Companies in 14 industries across 12 countries.

Aventura investment partners

Aventura invests in early-stage investments in rural Africa. Specifically, the Fund addresses the challenges facing rural agricultural communities in Africa in a new, innovative way and is dedicated to investing in and promoting African entrepreneurs and managers.

Mecene investment - socially responsible investments in Africa

Mecene Investment is a Private Equity Advisory Firm that specializes in socially responsible investments in Africa.

The company draws on its successful private equity experience in African microfinance industry to promote equity and debt investments in industries that provide high social, environmental and developmental impact.

East Africa Capital Partners - EACP

East Africa Capital Partners (EACP) is a technology, media and telecommunications sector focus venture capital fund Manager investing in the greater Eastern Africa region.

Travant Capital

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Travant's investment region spans 22 countries in West and Central Africa with a key focus on seven countries - Angola, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. With offices in Lagos, Nigeria and Douala, Cameroon, we are never more than a few hours from any location in our region. In addition, our multilingual professionals were born in or have lived in six African countries. We believe this presence in our investment region gives us better access to investment opportunity and better enables us to add value to our portfolio companies.

Satya Capital

Satya Capital Limited is a private investment firm committed both to helping businesses improve their competitive standing and to realizing value for our investors.

We specialize in Africa-related investment, providing companies with the operational, technological and financial resources they need to expand and take advantage of burgeoning growth opportunities in their industries.

We are long-term investors who are guided by a multi-strategy discipline that reflects our decades of collective experience successfully leading and investing in companies across Africa. Our deep understanding of the environment makes it possible for us to partner effectively with senior company managers, and also informs every aspect of our investment process. We build and unlock value through careful selection, rigorous due diligence, innovative structuring and creative value realization programmes.

Pan African Capital Group

Pan African Capital Group

Pan African Capital Group, LLC provides investment banking services to the African markets. Building on a core of business that leverages its relationships with a number of key companies in Africa, we provide advice and capital to increase our partners’ ability to compete on a global basis and build markets for their products and services. In particular, Pan African Capital Group targets opportunities in the financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing.

Fortune article - African investments starting to pay off

Marc Gunther from Fortune magazine, has written an article about profitable investments in Africa. Marc notes that Africa has risks, but Africa has some of the best returns in the world.

Investment in Africa starts to pay off

Widespread perceptions of corruption and violence do not deter some Western firms from putting money into African nations - often with impressive results.

By Marc Gunther, senior writer

(Fortune) -- Read the news about civil war in Kenya, unrest in Chad, or genocide in Darfur, and you could conclude that Africa is no place to invest money.

But behind the headlines lies business opportunity. Africa's economy is growing at 5 to 6% a year. Inflation is down. Prices are rising for commodities like oil, copper and gold.

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