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We enable  Allan Gray Fellows and  Social Entrepreneurs to build and scale high-impact organisations which will create jobs, attack poverty and contribute to transformation in South Africa.

Our Offering

We provide funding and support to value-aligned entrepreneurs that build and scale responsible businesses with a positive impact on our society.

Allan Gray Fellows

We support Allan Gray Fellows at different stages of their business cycle. This will include patient capital as well as post-investment assistance.

Social Entrepreneurs

We support social entrepreneurs and innovators with the

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

The Energy and Environment Partnership covering Southern and East Africa (EEP Africa) is a multi-donor fund providing early-stage grant and catalytic financing to innovative clean energy projects, technologies and business models.

EEP Africa has been at the forefront of efforts to fast track clean energy access and sustainable and inclusive green growth, channeling more than EUR 57 million to 200+ pioneering projects with positive impacts on lives and livelihoods.

In January 2018, EEP Africa transitioned into a multi-donor trust fund managed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). This new

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 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

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.

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

Futuregrowth is a fixed interest investment company that creates opportunities for investors to choose returns that matter.

Managing clients'​ assets of around R193 billion (+/- US$12 billion)*, across the full range of interest bearing and developmental investments, Futuregrowth has developed one of the largest and most experienced teams of investment professionals in the fixed interest space. In addition, the team's specialist skills set, particularly credit analysis, and duration and yield curve management, allows for better risk management and the ability to deliver value to client

IDF Capital is a specialist entrepreneurial financing institution managing and administering funds for various corporate and institutional clients 

IDF Capital has over R 1,5 billion assets under management and established in 2008. IDF has been managing and administering funds for various corporate and institutional clients for over 12 years IDF Capital is a level 1 BBBEE contributor that is 100 black-owned and more than 80 black women-owned It holds an NCR license, categories 1 and 2 FSCA licenses, and is a member of the Southern Africa Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and The

Montegray Capital is a private investment company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

We invest in great teams with disruptive businesses. We provide angel, venture and growth capital, strategic advice and access to networks. We like to connect entrepreneurs with our greater network to offer insights and capabillities. Our experience has helped us understand how to solve various problems and what’s important for growth in different sectors and stages.

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

Delta Property Fund invests in office, retail and industrial sectors with particular emphasis on government-tenanted offices in South Africa. 

Delta Property Fund is a predominantly soverign underpinned fund that is represented in all 9 of South Africa’s provinces. One of Delta’s key objectives from the outset was to diversify the portfolio into other high-growth assets classes. This has been achieved through a number of strategic acquisitions, including key retail and industrial assets.

Attacq is a South African growth fund in the real estate sector.

Attacq Ltd is a leading Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), with an award-winning property portfolio worth over R28 billion in total asset value. Attacq delivers exceptional and sustainable growth through its real estate investments and its developments in Waterfall City, Waterfall Logistics Hub and retail precincts. Supported by one of the most comprehensive and diverse real estate asset portfolios in South Africa, Attacq creates safe, sustainable spaces where people can connect, unwind and thrive. Bolstered by its four key

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.

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

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