Investors

AAA Intergalactic Investments Group is the first financial group dedicated to interplanetary and intergalactic infrastructure. We bring tremendous business opportunities and capital solutions together with integrity. AAA Intergalactic Investments Group’s primary mission is to promote a fair funding system enabling industrialisation.

GreenTec Capital Partners invests in African start-ups and SMEs with a focus on combining social and environmental impact with financial success. We use capacity building, process optimization and a diverse team of international experts to help them implement and adapt the latest technologies to their models so they can extend their value chains and have more impact locally.

The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) is the pan-African industry body with a mission to champion and enable private investment in Africa. AVCA plays a significant role as a champion and effective change agent for the industry, educating, equipping and connecting members and stakeholders with independent industry research, best practice training programmes, and exceptional networking opportunities.

The Ecobank Group is a full-service banking group focused on Middle Africa. It provides wholesale, retail, investment and transactional banking services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), local corporates, multinationals, governments and financial institutions.

Ecobank currently has a presence in 35 African countries, a banking license in Paris and international offices in London, Dubai and Beijing, to support the global businesses of its corporate customers.

AfricInvest is among the leading asset management firms for PE, VC and Private Credit in Africa having raised US$2bn. Founded 28 years ago, AfricInvest has made over 180 investments, and completed more than 100 exits in almost 30 countries across the African continent in a variety of sectors. AfricInvest contributes to significant socio-economic development thanks to revenue growth and profitability improvement across its portfolio companies, as well as an integrated focus on sustainable impact. The Group operates through AfricInvest’s eight offices across the continent and two offices in Europe and the US which impart deep experience and relationships, sectoral expertise, and environmental, social and governance improvements for investee companies.

Oragroup is present in 12 countries in West and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory
Coast, Chad, Gabon, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and
Togo) and in four monetary zones (WAEMU, CEMAC, Guinea Conakry and Mauritania).

Lightrock is a global private equity platform and invests in companies, that pursue scalable and technology driven business models around three key impact themes that are central to building a better tomorrow: people, planet and productivity. Within these themes, they focus on key sectors that offer disproportional value creation opportunities and positive impact in response to pressing social and environmental problems.

The EIB works closely with other EU institutions to foster European integration, promote the development of the EU and support EU policies in over 160 countries around the world. EIB offers loans, guarantees, equity investments and advisory services.

The African Development Bank is a multilateral development finance institute headquartered in Cote d’Ivoire. The AfDB provides African governments and private companies financial services.

KfW is one of the world’s leading promotional banks. KfW has been committed to improving economic, social and environmental living conditions across the globe on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal states since 1948. KfW, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), has launched the Africa CIRR export financing programme, which aims to strengthen economic cooperation with Africa.

Deutsche Bank employs well over 200 staff to provide banking services to our clients on the African continent. We have teams in our Johannesburg, South Africa office and representative offices in Lagos, Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt. Last year, Deutsche Bank was named Best Foreign Investment Bank in Africa at the EMEA Finance Magazine African Banking Awards for the second consecutive year. Deutsche Bank named Best Foreign Investment Bank in Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon and Niger.