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African Alliance Group is a substantial pan-African investment banking platform in Private Equity, Advisory, Asset Management,  and Securities. African Alliance provides private equity capital to developing economies in which we are active, is critical to our role as a promoter of economic growth and local entrepreneurial empowerment.

For almost three decades, the African Alliance Group has been building a substantial pan-African investment banking platform.

​We understand the need to build African markets from small or non-existent platforms to expand the base that will enable Africa to

Shalamuka Capital is the private equity vehicle of the Shalamuka Foundation focused on mid-sized management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, development capital and funded BEE solutions.

As the private equity company for the Shalamuka Foundation, we partner with and invest in sustainable, non-listed businesses that show future growth potential to raise funding for our investments.

At Shalamuka Capital, we believe in investing in businesses for the long term by forming partnerships, rather than just making investments. Our value proposition is private equity in action, not words.

Shalamuka

Spinnaker Growth Partners is an investment and advisory firm focusing on medium-sized companies with high-growth potential in South Africa.

We help mid-sized companies to capture growth opportunities. This is done by providing tailored business development support and access to the required growth capital. We also assist corporates and state-owned enterprises to take a more strategic approach to supplier development, working with their suppliers to deliver shared value for both parties. Our team has significant investment and top-tier management consulting expertise. Combined with our

My Growth Fund is a venture capitalist, supplier development and enterprise development firm in South Africa.

With our overall goal to enhance and contribute to the economic upliftment of Africa, we provide the tools innovators need to shatter the status quo. Our accelerator, incubators, masterclasses & investments make us the only wall-to-wall enterprise and supplier development company in South Africa. Since 2014 we’ve obsessively honed what we are good at providing the expert skills, business support and access to capital that entrepreneurs and businesses need to sustainably grow. We are

Grindstone Ventures is a post-seed fund that supports early-stage innovation-driven companies to enable them to deliver capital growth and sustainable cash yields over the long term.

Grindstone Ventures is female-led and looking for technology companies with strong intellectual property and evident growth potential, with the aim of delivering capital growth and sustainable cash yields over the long term.

GROWTH ENGINEERS

We understand what it takes to start and grow a business to the point of real scaling. You need resilience, loads of patience, a good sense of humour and real grit

Tamela Holdings is a private equity firm specializing in expansion, growth, refinancing and buyouts.

Tamela started its principal investments in 2008, and has subsequently executed several transactions.To date Tamela’s portfolio of assets generate more than R2 billion of revenue. Our exposure is predominantly in the mining supplies; manufacturing; healthcare; and financial services.

For Principal Investments, Tamela prefers investing in unlisted companies with strong management teams. Tamela’s current investments are in the industrial, manufacturing and financial services sectors. To date

PAPEfunds is a late stage focused private equity firm.

PAPE Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd (“PAPE”) is a boutique private equity fund manager investing long-term equity risk capital into pedigreed South African mid-cap unlisted enterprises.

PAPE Fund Managers (PFM) has its origins in the establishment in 2005 of Pan-African Capital Holdings (PTY) Limited (PACH), an investment holding and econometric research company. The principals at PACH decided in 2008 to pursue a captive fund model and were successful in attracting the interest of RMB Ventures to invest alongside PACH in the first fund

Medu Capital is a professional investment management company with a focus on private equity, partnering with entrepreneurs to grow and develop privately owned businesses.

Established in 2003, Medu Capital provides long term capital and significant management skills, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow and develop privately owned businesses.

Imbewu Capital Partners is a black owned and controlled private equity investment holding company.

Imbewu (which means “seed” in Zulu) Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd (“Imbewu”) invests, structures and raises funding for management buy outs, leveraged buy outs and strategic Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) transactions in partnership with management teams and shareholders.

Enso Equity is a Cape town-based early and late stage venture capital firm.

As a principal investor, Ensō Equity aspires to embody these values in our dealings with our partners and to promote them in our investments. We believe that with these core principles as a guiding light, we are able to better navigate constant change and embrace innovation.

Ensō Equity invests in both early-stage and later-stage businesses. These businesses should benefit from "rising tides" in global trends and businesses that fundamentally enhance the world around us and do good.

Ensō Equity is not a passive