Adiwale Partners via its Adiwale Fund I has acquired a minorty stake in IDC, a drilling services company in Africa.
Goodwell Investments has led a $50m Series C equity round in Copia Global, a B2C e-commerce platform with a distribution solution to serve the rapidly growing 750 million middle and low-income African consumer market.
Ethos Mezzanine Partners and BluePeak Private Capital Fund have co-invested $31.5m in Grit Real Estate Income Group (Grit), a Pan–African real estate business headquartered in Mauritius.
TLcom Capital has led a $10m Series A investment round in SeamlessHR, a human resources (HR) and payroll technology company in Africa.
Phatisa, together with management, has acquired 100% of South African-based biotechnology company Deltamune from HL Hall & Sons Investments, for an undisclosed sum.
Aruwa Capital Management, an early-stage growth equity and gender lens fund, has invested in CrowdForce, a financial services distribution platform facilitating delivery of banking services to last-mile customers in rural areas, serving the underserved and unbanked population in Nigeria.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) will act as a sole lender and provide $19m to Central Electrica de Tetereane SA (CET) for the construction of the Cuamba plant.
Chimera Investment has invested $50m through a secondary purchase of shares from a subsidiary of Airtel Africa in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC).
4DX Ventures and Flutterwave have invested $2.4m seed capital in CinetPay, a digital finance platform that enables merchants in Francophone Africa.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) alongside the African Development Bank (AfDB), and Proparco have acted as senior lenders to the 34MW Djermaya Solar project in Chad, committing €18m, €9.3m and €9.3m of senior debt to the project respectively.
Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has partnered with Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group), to buy Overseas Catering Services (OCS), a leading corporate catering and related services provider in Africa and the Middle East.
MultiChoice Group (MCG), KLT Holdings and Buffet Investments have led a R62m Series A funding round into AURA, an South African security and medical response marketplace.
Edge Growth, through the Engen Convoy Fund, an Enterprise and Supplier Development Fund to promote broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE), has invested in DKN Transport, a level 1 B-BBEE contributor with a 30% black female shareholding.
Fundi, an education finance and education fund management solution specialist, has acquired EduOne, a South African education technology company.
