Orange Digital Ventures Africa, the Orange investment fund’s new initiative for Africa, has announced its first investment, helping Africa’s Talking to raise $8.6m, alongside the IFC World Bank and Social Capital.
Uqalo, a South-African private equity fund, has bought Sh404m($4m) worth of shares in Kenyan fast food chain Big Square for an undisclosed stake.
The Yield Uganda Investment Fund, managed by Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), has made its maiden investment in Uganda, committing Ushs 1.6bn ($4.31m) to Sesaco, a soy processing company.
Five major banks and funds across three continents have financed the global for-profit social enterprise d.light’s next phase of growth to empower millions more off-grid families.
Knife Capital has invested in Cape Town-based machine learning startup DataProphet, which develops and implements product development solutions to a wide range of industries.
Vantage Capital has provided $8m of funding to Rosslyn Riviera Shopping Mall, a convenient neighbourhood shopping mall in the upmarket suburb of Rosslyn/Runda in Nairobi that officially opened for trading in 2017.
DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor, has recently completed its first investment in Rwanda, by acquiring an equity stake in Sarura Commodities, a grain trading company.
Edge Growth’s Vumela Fund with participation from Omidyar Network, the Brozin family’s Forever Young Capital and Catapult Trust, have invested in Giraffe, a South African automated high-volume recruitment start-up.
LUN Partners Group, a China-based global investment management group, alongside Goodwell Investments and several angel investors have invested $4.5m in MFS Africa, a Pan-African fintech company, in a Series B funding round.
Agri-Vie and Norfund have announced a $17m co-investment into the Marginpar Flower Group Holdings, an East African flower sales business.
Grit, the largest and only pan-African focused real estate income group, has announced changes to its board and further expansion of its portfolio in Mozambique and Ghana.
Africa-focused venture capital firm TLcom Capital, with participation from other investors, has invested $5m in Terragon, Africa’s mobile marketing company.
Trinity Ventures has led a $70m Series B investment round, which combines debt and equity, in Branch International, a mobile ‘branchless bank’ for Emerging Markets.
Arise Fund has agreed to buy a minority stake in Moza Banco, Kuhanha, which administers the pension fund of Mozambique’s central bank.
