Gauteng

Nodus is an independent investment banking business specialising in mergers & acquisitions, buy-outs & private equity.

The Nodus Capital business is focussed on mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs and the raising of capital. We initiate, evaluate, structure and facilitate the implementation and conclusion of corporate transactions and the raising of capital. We see transactions through from start to finish. Private Equity The Nodus Equity business is focussed on private equity. Our investment philosophy is simple: clear investment criteria; a rigorous investment process; and a close working

Tana Africa Capital is an Africa-focused investment company with US$600 million of capital raised since inception. Tana is owned by the Oppenheimer Family and Temasek Holdings (“Temasek”). Since inception in 2011, Tana has invested in a portfolio spanning the FMCG, retail, education, healthcare, and agribusiness sectors with operations in more than 20 countries across the African continent. Tana is managed by a team of 12 investment professionals from offices in Johannesburg, South Africa and Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Summit Africa has a Private Equity Fund that provides access to scarce, high-growth, defensive, private equity investment opportunities in strategic sectors that contribute meaningfully to the Social and Economic Transformation and Development of local communities and South Africa as a whole.

Summit Africa in South Africa is a black owned and managed, specialist Alternatives Investment Manager, delivering bespoke investment solutions through its Private Equity Fund and unlisted Social Infrastructure Fund.

Through its dedicated products, our emphasis is to deliver above-benchmark risk

Sango Capital is an investment firm making private equity investments in Africa's fastest growing economies through a select portfolio of direct investments, private equity funds and bespoke pooled investment vehicles. Sango currently manages a number of investment vehicles aggregating capital from institutional investors including pension funds, foundations, endowments, sovereign wealth funds and high net worth family clients from the United States and Asia.

Khula Lula is a micro-financing VC that aims to address the existing gap of South African women involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity, by bolstering female entrepreneurship and underrepresented tech startups.

In January 2020 we opened our applications for the first time to African women in the startup landscape to apply for R200 000 in funding for their pre-seed e-commerce startups. We encountered so many challenges along the way, which included navigating the changes our country was facing as a result of Covid-19. This did not stop us from pursuing our penultimate mission of

Motus is a diversified (non-manufacturing) business in the automotive sector with unrivalled scale and scope in South Africa, and a selected international presence.

Motus is South Africa’s leading automotive group, employing over 17 000 people globally. We are a diversified (non-manufacturing) business in the automotive sector with unrivalled scale and scope in South Africa, a selected international presence primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as a limited presence in South East Asia and Southern and East Africa.

Motus traces its roots back to 1948, when its founding

Vunani Capital offers a range of investment products to both institutional and retail clients, including retirement funds, medical schemes, corporates, parastatals and trusts.

Vunani is an independent black-owned and managed diversified financial services group with a unique positioning in the South African financial services sector.

Owner-managed by professionals who have a passion for entrepreneurship, Vunani has become known as one of the country’s leading boutique providers. Its robust operational platform supports an innovative and fully integrated range of products and services that

Ata Capital is a cross-sectoral, alternative asset class fund manager, focused on identifying and maximising real investment opportunities that create sustained stakeholder impact, generate effective returns and drive sector transformation. 

he company, founded in 2012 by CEO, Lelo Rantloane, and the Harris Family Office, is majority black-owned and is managed by a group of seasoned investment professionals. Ata Capital’s purpose is to attract and manage private and institutional capital, structuring diverse investments that generate relative returns for investors, employees and shareholders

Aka Capital Holdings (Proprietary) Limited (“Aka Capital”) is a private equity and investment holding company headquartered in Johannesburg.

The company proactively identifies growth-industry investment opportunities, focuses on shareholder value creation and maintains transparent shareholder and governance structures.

The team leverages its resource base to the advantage of investee companies, including:

• professional experience;
• business intelligence networks;
• access to managerial talent;
• monitoring and interpreting shifts in the political economy; and
• access to markets.

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Adinah is an investment management company focused on investing in private companies and taking advantage of unlisted investment opportunities in new and old companies that are innovative, disruptive and solve structural inefficiencies in the value and supply chain of companies and economies.

Adinah was founded in 2013 with the sole focus of making private company, start-up venture and tactical investments in South and Sub-Saharan Africa. It was consciously set up as an owner led and managed, “new” South African company, cognizant of the dignity and responsibility towards the countries and