Private Equity

Invenfin is a strategic venture partner owned and backed by the Remgro Group. We invest in high growth businesses with international ambitions.

Horizon Equity Partners is one of South Africa’s longest established private equity firms with an investment track record dating back to 1992. Our executives have collectively initiated and managed equity investments in over 40 companies across a wide range of industry sectors, but with an emphasis on technology, media & telecommunications.

We specialise in the provision of growth capital and buyout capital to small and medium sized enterprises at all stages of development except start-up.

Knife Capital manages HBD Venture Capital’s South African portfolio of investments.

HBD VC is a South African venture capital fund founded by Michael Shuttleworth in 2000. HBD (an acronym for ‘Here Be Dragons’ – a term used in ancient times to mark unchartered territories on maps) offered growth capital to a range of early stage businesses. The fund is now fully invested and its current focus is on growing its investments to achieve successful exits.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory and capital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Successful innovations have durability, broad impact, and high returns. Our investment philosophy is driven by identifying new products, processes or programs with disruptive

Ethos is widely considered to be the most experienced and successful private equity investment team in South Africa. 

Founded in 1984, Ethos pioneered South African private equity, concluding the first private equity-led acquisitions in the country.

In 2016, Ethos transitioned into a broader investment firm, managing investments in private equity and credit strategies in South Africa and selectively in sub-Saharan Africa.  Furthermore, Ethos also launch Ethos Capital, an investment vehicle listed on the JSE, designed to offer investors long-term capital appreciation by investing in a

Black Swan Investments was created to investigate all things innovative. This led  Black Swan Investments down the path of real estate, 3D printing and the internet of things. Black Swan Investments found that its expertise within the project management and corporate finance spheres could be applied to these entrepreneurial projects. Black Swan Investments has gone on to share these lessons at The Innovation Hub, SAB Kickstarter, Sophiatown Bizcre8 as well as PPS Insurance.

Investment

• Invest across a wide range of asset classes, with current exposure in the real estate and ICT sectors

Agri-Vie is a private equity investment fund focused on food and agribusiness in Sub-Sahara Africa, a foundational sector of the continent’s economies. Agri- Vie harnesses private equity investment disciplines to generate above-average investment returns, while also addressing development impact challenges.

Initiated by the Agri-Vie investment team and Sanlam Private Equity with the cooperation of South African and international investors as well as the Makotulo Consortium, Agri-Vie has consistently grown its role as a trusted investment partner in food & agribusiness.

Investment Focus

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Paragon Investment Holdings (PIH) is a leading private equity and business management company with diverse holdings and its headquarters located in Windhoek, Namibia. Paragon’s specialties are mirrored in the various corporate branches it manages. These include:

• Investments
• Property Development,
• Duty Free Operations,
• Oil and Gas exploration and Investments
• Publishing
• Hospitality
• Marketing and Advertising
• Brand Management and
• Food Production.

Taking Namibia’s political, social, and economic history, Paragon was founded with the singular desire to become a world-class company with a

VG Capital (VGC) is a Southern African based investment advisory and investment management firm, registered with the Namibian Financial Supervisory Authority. 

VG Capital Ventures - through its Principal Investments arm, provides flexible capital solutions to early-stage (post-revenue) businesses with strong growth potential in areas where VGC may be able to add value. The Principal Investors strongly consider investments alongside established Family Offices, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds.  

VGC Capital - provides multi-managed, asset consulting and managed investment

Aleyo Capital is a Botswana-based alternative asset investment management firm specialising in private equity and mezzanine investments in Southern Africa. The Firm invests in high growth, market-leading businesses with the potential to generate superior returns for investors.

The Aleyo Capital team established and manages a hybrid private equity fund, the Aleyo Growth Fund I, which successfully achieved its first close with a total commitment of BWP 500 million in August 2018. The Fund is targeting to close at BWP 750 million worth of commitments.

Aleyo Capital is a member of the Southern