Renewable Energy

TriVest is a leading provider of equity for growth capital financings, middle market corporate acquisitions and recapitalizations. Since its founding, TriVest has experienced a huge demand for capital in the early stage sector in Southern Africa, where innovative early-stage and start-up companies often lack the financial, managerial and network resources for expansion and growth.

TriVest prefers to invest in quality small to medium sized companies, which possess or promise strong and defendable market positions in growing or fragmented industries. TriVest always co-invests with company

SABAN (South African Business Angel Network) is the non-profit, professional association for the South African early stage investor community. Established in 2016, SABAN represents a sector that plays a vital role in South Africa’s future, notably in the funding of Start-Ups. SABAN members fuel SA’s growth through the creation of wealth and jobs.

– Raising awareness of Angel investing activity 

– Capacity building / training

– Networking with peers

– Research

– Accreditation

– Seeding Angel Groups in major economic hubs

– Lobbying for regulatory improvements

– Recognise

Black Women-Owned South African Fund Managers 

Firebird Fund Managers has its roots in business rescue and private equity. We specialize in identifying businesses which are distressed but where active intervention, new capital, debt restructures and compromises, can remedy the distress. We ensure Transformation and Impact through the following:Firebird is 75% black ownedJobs retained is key metric to us as well as above average IRR’s We hand over our businesses wherever possible to new entrants  Sustainable businesses with great governance is our goal

Firebird Turnaround Fund – Investment

Earth Capital is a ‘Post Seed and Series A’ stage equity impact investor, which scales post revenue, commercially viable venture solutions to social and environmental issues in South Africa.   Earth Capital has emerged in response to a range of socio-economic and environmental mega-trends both in South Africa, Africa and the rest of the planet.

We exist to fill a large funding gap for early stage impact ventures, which are typically too risky or too small in investment size, to be of interest to typical institutional investors in South Africa. In partnership with our sister company, Impact

Black Rhino Group provides energy, infrastructure, and communication developments and investments across the African continent.

Understanding African Infrastructure & Communities - Black Rhino believes that transformational infrastructure is the ultimate catalyst for economic development. We speak the many languages of Africa, respect its unique and diverse cultures, value its beautiful environments and rich natural resources, and operate under its unifying spirit of ubuntu.

Harith invests in African infrastructure within the five core infrastructure sectors of energy, transport, telecommunications, health and water.

Harith General Partners is the leading Pan-African fund manager for infrastructure development across the continent. With offices in Johannesburg, Cote d’Ivoire and London; Harith manages Africa’s first and only 15-year US$630m infrastructure fund, the Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund (PAIDF) and recently announced the first close of the US$435m PAIDF2. The funds are invested in a number of major projects in diversified sectors such as

LifeCo UnLtd South Africa is an impact business that invests in early to growth enterprises to deliver social, environmental, economic and financial gains.LifeCo is invested in companies in various sectors: renewable energy, urban farming, education, lifestyle and impact venture capital (SA, Netherlands, UK).

LifeCo UnLtd also delivers highly impactful immersive experiences designed to stimulate
entrepreneurial thinking and catalyse text catalyse personal, social and environmental problem-
solving.

Raba is an investment partnership focused on partnering with entrepreneurs in emerging technology ecosystems.

Raba is not a "fund." We are a partnership, a team of people who partner with founders to build companies that generate outsized returns and solve real-world problems. We have been early partners to the founders of many category-defining African software and internet companies.

We partner with founders building software and internet-first companies. We get involved early — during a time when we can have outsized impact. We have developed a series of investment themes that inform our

Inspired Evolution is a specialised investment advisory business dedicated to two principle investment themes: clean energy infrastructure-type development and project finance investments; and energy and resource efficiency growth investments.

Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment advisory business dedicated to two principle investment themes: clean energy infrastructure-type development and project finance investments; and energy and resource efficiency growth investments – and the value chains that support them. Inspired Evolution’s investment territory

Broadreach is an investment and corporate finance house with a particular focus on businesses that have a positive impact on their physical or social environments.  

Broadreach was founded in 2014 by a group of like-minded individuals, with a vision to be the bridge between the technical and financial worlds of renewable energy. Broadreach specializes in building, operating and maintaining clean energy generation and energy efficiency projects for its clients throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from stand-alone solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Namibia and Rwanda to rooftop installations