8 Miles

"8 Miles is a private equity firm focused exclusively on making private equity investments in Africa. We invest in consumer-driven businesses and service providers with strong growth prospects. We look to partner with leading entrepreneurs and management teams, and work with them to achieve shared objectives by providing capital and operational expertise. A core part of our strategy is active ownership - actively participating in transforming businesses in which we invest. We are "hands on" investors in Africa.

At 8 Miles we have a complementary team of principals with significant experience in private equity and direct experience in successfully managing and transforming businesses in Africa. All our principals have extensive experience in developed and emerging economies, and therefore have a deep insight into the unique opportunities and challenges that Africa presents. We seek to achieve superior capital returns and accelerate the development of African companies by delivering lasting operational improvement.

Typically, we place between US$15 million and US$45 million in each investment that we make. Whilst we look at opportunities from growth equity to more complex buyouts, our strategy is essentially quite simple. We invest in African businesses and sectors with high growth prospects, and enhance performance by implementing our "active ownership" approach to manage the investment. We believe the combination of careful selection and hands-on involvement leads to better performance.

We work with highly motivated entrepreneurs and managers and ensure all stakeholder interests are completely aligned. We aim to take majority or influential minority positions in companies, and work closely with like-minded stakeholders to devise and implement operational changes to the business. Some of these changes appear straightforward - management controls, proper training and incentivisation, alignment of interests, analytically-driven decision making, and so forth - but they help ensure that the companies we work with have a competitive advantage relative to their peer group.

Our collective experience in Africa has taught us that value creation requires the key discipline to do simple things well; applying proven best practice and transferring skills, rather than re-inventing the wheel. Our "active ownership" philosophy integrates governance and operational change programmes. By leveraging our operational expertise, we look to create market leading African businesses. This leads to sustainable growth and value creation for all stakeholders.

8 Miles has identified target geographies and sectors where its investment approach can be best implemented. We focus on countries with strong macroeconomic fundamentals, good governance, a favourable regime for foreign investors, and a track record of private sector reforms which make doing business easier.

8 Miles focuses on consumer driven businesses and service providers with strong growth prospects. Typical sectors which we consider include:

• Agribusiness
• Business and Financial Services
• Consumer Goods and Retail
• Energy and Utilities
• Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
• Hospitality and Real Estate
• Telecom, Media and Technology
• Transport and Logistics

http://www.8miles.com/index.php 

Keynes Private Equity

"Who we are

We are a budding Private Equity firm with focus on the growing sectors of Africa's emerging economies. We seek for innovative and growth embedded Companies to create maximum value for our investors. Established in 2011 with the goal of harnessing the investment and knowledge opportunities in the African continent, we strive to build lasting and sustainable enterprises. Primarily, Keynes Private Equity engages in Buy-out, Turnaround Management, Strategic Investments, Private and Public Partnership Alliances and Venture Capital in these key sectors:

• Real Estate
• Infrastructure
• Energy and Power
• Hospitality

Keynes Private Equity Limited is focused on the growing sectors of Africa's emerging economies including the development of infrastructure to enhance the continent's competitiveness. We are an entrepreneurial firm that seeks to develop strong and long term relationships with Fund Managers, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Sponsors and Strategic Development Partners that share our enterprising vision.

We hope to invest our resources and expertise in supporting African Businesses with potential or delivering significant value to its stakeholders and customers. We work and leverage the networks of our parent Company in the Capital Markets to spot opportunities. We equally have excellent working relationships with fellow Private Equity firms who could co-invest with us.

Keynes Private Equity Limited has made proprietary investments in Hospitality and Real Estate with lots of related transactions in our Deals Pipeline...."

 http://www.keynesprivateequity.com/about_us.php

Adenia Partners

"At a glance

2002	Adenia Partners founded
2003	First fund, Adenia Capital, established with committed capital of €10 million (fully invested)
2007	Second fund, Adenia Capital (II), established with €37 million in capital commitments (fully invested)
2012	Third fund, Adenia Capital (III), established with €96 million in capital commitments.

The journey to building your own business is a long – and often lonely – one.

We know how tough the road is, because we have walked it ourselves. Our team of successful entrepreneurs founded Adenia Partners in 2002 to put this knowledge to fruitful use.

We have built a fellowship of business leaders who, like us, pursue an ethos of excellence through hard work and humility. By interacting and sharing resources, our business leaders make so much more of the capital invested.

We have deployed our investments though three funds, launched respectively in 2003, 2007 and 2012, across a range of sectors including, but not limited to, agribusiness, manufacturing, financial services, ICT and telecommunications, and finally tourism and hospitality. You can view our portfolio here.

We invest in companies based in West Africa and the Indian Ocean region. Visit us at our offices in Antananarivo, Port Louis, Accra, and Abidjan...."

http://www.adenia.com/