African Infrastructure Investment Managers

African Infrastructure Investment Managers is an unlisted infrastructure fund manager focused on South African infrastructure projects. The firm specialises in sectors such as roads, airports, power, telecommunications, rail, ports, water and social infrastructure.
DA

Damilola Agbaj

Investment Manager

AA

Akinsehinwa Akin-Taylor

Investment Manager

MB

Moritz Breickmann

Investment Director

PF

Paul Franklish

Investment Director

SF

Sean Friend

Cio: Sadc

Dean Horton

COO

JK

John Kimotho

Investment Manager

PK

Patrick Kouamé

Investment Director

OL

Olusola Lawson

Co-MD

LP

Lebogang Pholoba Lebogang

Nvestment Manager

SM

Sean Macdonald

Investment Director

DM

Dhesen Moodley

Investment Director, Asset Management

SN

Santosh Naidoo

Investment Associate

VN

Vuyo Ntoi

Co-MD

SS

Sechaba Selemela

Investment Principal

HS

Hayley Stern

Investment Manager

ES

Ed Stumpf

Investment Director

JS

Jurie Swart

CEO

AW

Ashwin West

Investment Director

CW

Chanine Williams

Investment Principal

Past deals in South Africa

IHS Netherlands HoldCo B.V.

Private Equity Round in 2014
IHS Netherlands Holdco B.V., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure services, as well as managed services, such as maintenance, security, and power supply for towers owned by third parties. It serves mobile network operators and other communication service providers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in the Hague, the Netherlands. IHS Netherlands Holdco B.V. is a subsidiary of IHS Netherlands (Interco) Coöperatief U.A.

Starsight Power Utility

Private Equity Round in 2018
Starsight Power Utility operates as an energy efficiency company. StarSight is an independent energy efficiency company delivering sustainable solar power and cooling services to our customers. Our objective is to achieve significant and measurable cost savings for our clients whilst being the catalyst to deliver a substantial reduction in Carbon Emissions for your business.

Kinangop Wind Park Limited

Private Equity Round in 2013
Kinangop is a 60.8 MW wind farm development comprising the construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a greenfield wind park located in the Kinangop region, about 60km northwest of Nairobi. In an effort to address the growing demand for power in Kenya, Kinangop supports an ambitious Kenyan government initiative to increase generation capacity from the current 1.5GW to 5.6GW by 2022. Kinangop is expected to generate and supply renewable energy to the national grid, which will provide clean power to thousands of homes in Kenya under a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Kenya Power and Lighting Company (Kenya’s electricity distribution company). Beyond its contribution to sustainable and environmentally-friendly electricity generation, Kinangop will be committed to creating job opportunities and socioeconomic development in its local communities.

AIIM Hydroneo

Venture Round in 2017
AIIM Hydroneo develops, owns, and operates hydro power projects.

Eastcastle Infrastructure

Private Equity Round in 2021
Eastcastle Infrastructure is a company specializing in Africa’s telecoms tower sector.

Accugas

Acquisition in 2018
Accugas, focuses on sales and marketing, processing and distribution of gas to the domestic Nigerian market through our proprietary major gas processing and distribution infrastructure.

Windiga Energy

Venture Round in 2017
Windiga Energy Inc. develops, owns, and operates renewable energy facilities.

Sodigaz Group

Private Equity Round in 2021
Sodigaz APC distributes butane gas, and liquid and gaseous petroleum products to authorized dealers. It also markets butane gas, gas equipment, and accessories to resellers and end consumers. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Snapplify

Venture Round in 2019
Snapplify is a content and media technology company focusing on content distribution and mobile publishing. We provide publishers and content producers with a platform for distribution, reading and retail of eBooks, magazines and newspapers. We are the largest eBook aggregators in Africa with more than 250 leading publishers’ content, more than 100 000 aggregated titles, and over 600 resellers and online stores. We work closely with Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University, Pearson and others to aggregate their eBooks within our established distribution channels that includes leading retailers and academic institutions. Snapplify formed from respected, pedigree technology company, Realmdigital, which has been servicing African markets for 15 years. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a Venture Capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family (RMB Co-Founder, Paul Harris’ family fund). Our solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology; the SnappBox has won multiple awards for revolutionising eBook distribution for schools.

Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana)

Acquisition in 2021
Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks).

Metrofibre Networx

Private Equity Round in 2021
Metrofibre Networx is a managed bandwidth service provider and internet service provider (ISP) that builds and operates a number of fibre-to-the-premises access infrastructures in and between commercial business parks, business clusters, residential estates and suburbs (access infrastructures). These access infrastructures are, in turn, connected to a Metro-Core-Ring circling Tshwane and Johannesburg, interconnecting these parks, clusters and estates.

DSM Corridor Group

Acquisition in 2017
DSM Corridor Group is a specialist dry bulk termoinal operator in the Port of Dar es Salaam.

Cenpower Generation Company

Private Equity Round in 2014
Cenpower Generation Company Limited ('Cenpower or CGC') is a Special Purpose Vehicle created to develop the Cenpower Kpone Independent Power Plant ('KIPP') in the Tema industrial zone, close to Accra, Ghana’s capital. Scheduled to come on stream in 2017, the KIPP will be among the largest private IPPs in the country, accounting for approximately 10% of Ghana’s total installed capacity and approximately 15% of its available thermal generation capacity. As a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine ('CCGT') plant, it will be amongst Ghana’s most fuel-efficient thermal power stations and once in production, the power plant will become a critical base-load component in meeting Ghana’s growing electricity demand. Cenpower presents a number of financing firsts: First licensed IPP in Ghana. First Greenfield project financed IPP in Ghana taking fuel supply risk. First project to provide a working capital facility through a fuel financing facility for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) First thermal IPP project financed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sumitomo Corporation (Japan) first thermal IPP investment in Africa.

Proton Energy

Private Equity Round in 2017
Proton Energy is develop and operate power plants across Sub Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Proton Energy’s team is composed of seasoned professionals with experience in Infrastructure Development, General Management, Operations, Business Development and Finance. The team has over the past 30 years, operated and managed leading African companies and has the requisite deal-sourcing capabilities, industry relationships across the continent and operational expertise to add value to portfolio investments.

Albatros Energy Mali Sa

Private Equity Round in 2017
Albatros Energy Mali plans to build, own, operate and transfer a 90 megawatt (MW) thermal power station in Kayes, western Mali.

Metrofibre Networx

Private Equity Round in 2020
Metrofibre Networx is a managed bandwidth service provider and internet service provider (ISP) that builds and operates a number of fibre-to-the-premises access infrastructures in and between commercial business parks, business clusters, residential estates and suburbs (access infrastructures). These access infrastructures are, in turn, connected to a Metro-Core-Ring circling Tshwane and Johannesburg, interconnecting these parks, clusters and estates.

Amandi Energy

Private Equity Round in 2018
Amandi Energy is generates electricity and offers design, construction, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of combined cycle gas turbines.

Starsight Energy

Debt Financing in 2020
Starsight Energy provides premier clean on-grid and off-grid energy services to commercial and industrial clients in Africa. We make clean energy a smart bottom-line decision for clients by eliminating all up-front costs. Clients pay an all-inclusive monthly fee for end-to-end service.

BBOXX Ltd.

Private Equity Round in 2019
BBOXX Ltd. designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances plug and play solar systems. The company offers solar home systems, remote monitoring products, portable lights, portable radios, LED TVs and lights, and phone chargers. It also provides installation and maintenance services. The company serves customers through a network of distributors in the United Kingdom and internationally. BBOXX Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Starsight Energy

Debt Financing in 2021
Starsight Energy provides premier clean on-grid and off-grid energy services to commercial and industrial clients in Africa. We make clean energy a smart bottom-line decision for clients by eliminating all up-front costs. Clients pay an all-inclusive monthly fee for end-to-end service.