Kingdom Holding Company

http://www.kingdom.com.sa/

"Kingdom Holding Company

 The World’s Foremost Value Investor

Welcome to the online home of Kingdom Holding Company – one of the world’s most successful diversified investment holding companies. Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) is a publicly listed company on the Tadawul (Saudi Stock Exchange). KHC is comprised of a select team of experienced investment specialists directed by HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, one of the world’s leading investors.

KHC is internationally renowned for its interest in both high performance global brands and strategic regional interests. The company utilizes detailed selection criteria to identify optimum opportunities to invest and realize value from undervalued or underperforming assets nationally and internationally, appreciating potential for the long term. 

 

Investments

Kingdom Holding Company – The Home of Investment

The KHC investment strategy is to identify and support “best of the best” enterprises around the world. We employ detailed selection criteria to maximize long-term returns for shareholders and joint venture partners, and employ an astute approach to realize investment potential in addition to identifying potential assets that are typically undervalued or underperforming, locally and globally through our sound investment strategy.

Through this approach KHC has cemented its position as one of the world’s foremost value investors.

But the real strength of the overall KHC portfolio lies in sector diversity. We have major interests in investment categories ranging from luxury hotels and real estate to media and publishing, entertainment, finance and investment services, social media and technology, consumer and retail, petrochemicals, education, private equities, health care, aviation, – even agriculture. KHC is among the world’s largest and most diverse investors, with regional and international holdings in many key industries. We are recognized as one of the largest foreign investors in the United States. We are also active in Africa, an emerging market and growing economic power offering nearly limitless potential.

KHC regularly extends its portfolio to include new opportunities. Current holdings shown do not define the limits of the company’s investment ambitions...."

 

Greylock Africa Opportunity Fund

Greylock Africa Opportunity Fund

Up to $200m
Pan-Africa

• Corporate
• Mezzanine
• Convertible and sovereign debt
• As well as private equity investments in various industries including
• Telecommunications
• Finance and banking
• Agribusiness
• Tourism
• Real estate
• Natural resources
• Energy

http://greylockcapital.com/

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

Fusion Capital

"Fusion Capital is part of the Fusion Group of businesses.  We are a hybrid business financing and private equity house, designed around the needs of local businesses in the emerging economies of East and Central Africa.  We operate from Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala and Dar es Salaam.

Currently, we are focused on the opportunities of the East African marketplace, but we have plans to expand to the Great lakes region and beyond as our capital base expands.

Targeted funding solutions

Fusion Capital invests through four main programmes:

SME Financing: amounts from as low as $1,000,000 up to $20,000,000. This is the historic core of our business, and we have financed literally hundreds of businesses’ growth across the East African Community. To qualify for our SME Financing, your business should be well established (at least three years of growth), be profitable, and have a well-considered business plan for growth.

Corporate Financing: amounts from $1,000,000 to $20,000,000. If your business has truly moved beyond the pack, we are able to take you further, with our bespoke financing solutions. To qualify, your business should have a well-rounded management team, and a sustainable competitive advantage in its chosen market.

Real Estate Financing: amounts from $3,000,000 to $20,000,000. All across the region, Fusion is financing the development of the buildings which dynamic economies need: from affordable housing, to luxury residential developments to office blocks, warehousing and factories. Fusion invests through well-tried SPV structures, normally having a controlling interest and working closely with real estate entrepreneurs.

Money Market operations: Fusion is an active player in the Bond and Equity markets in its countries of operation, where it enjoys close collaborative relationships with banks and other key institutions...."

 http://www.fusioncapitalafrica.com/