Cauris Management

Cauris Management is the first subregional private equity fund management structure created in Francophone West Africa. Operational since 1996, Cauris Management invests in companies with strong potential for growth and profitability. We are based in Lomé and Abidjan, which ensures us a close proximity with the regional private sector.
KT

Kokou Timothée Akodo

Directeur Financier Lome

Noël Yawo Eklo

Co-Fondateur Directeur General

BK

Benjamin Kouakou

Directeur Associe Responsable de Yeelen Fonds Financier, Abidjan

SL

Schola Laban

Directeur D'Investissement Lome

KL

Kouassi Lolo Nolitse

Directeur Associe and Responsable Esg, Lome

AT

Anna Traoré

Associate

Past deals in Togo

Banque Populaire pour l'Epargne et le Crédit offers banking services. The company is based in Lomé, Togo. Banque Populaire pour l'Epargne et le Crédit operates as a subsidiary of SUNU Assurances Vie Côte d'Ivoire.

Axxend

Private Equity Round in 2013
Axxend provides business technology consulting services to organizations in Africa. The company offers business intelligence solutions, such as enterprise performance management and information architecture; and collaboration solutions, including enterprise communications, desktop transformation, migration for Lotus Notes/Domino, enterprise collaboration, and services for business productivity online suite.

Toubijoux Industries

Private Equity Round in 1997
Toubijoux Industries is an industrial unit manufacturing gold and silver jewelery created in Senegal in 1997.

SERMED

Private Equity Round in 1999
SERMED owns and manages the International Center of Ophthalmology in Abidjan.

Computer Technology

Private Equity Round in 2002
Computer Technology S.A operates as a supplier of technical equipment and also offers computer services.

MTN

Post in 2009
MTN Group Limited operates in the telecommunications industry. It offers voice, data, access, virtual private network, and cloud solutions. The company also provides digital services, such as mobile money account; and entertainment services, including MTN Music and Play. As of December 31, 2017, the company had 217.2 million subscribers in 24 countries in Africa and the Middle East. MTN Group Limited was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Filature du Sahel

Private Equity Round in 1998
Filature du Sahel S.A. operates a cotton mill in Burkina Faso. It offers threads and mops.

Swindevco

Private Equity Round in 2009
Swindevco installs telecommunications networks including pylons and shelters. The company engages in maintenance of sites.

Linea Industries

Private Equity Round in 1996
Linea Industries offers rewinding and packaging services for sewing and knitting wool.

SAPIN

Private Equity Round in 2004
Sapin is a regional leader for Flexible Packaging in French-Speaking Africa. The company produces highly specialized films and packaging solutions. Our Main customers are producers and distributors in the local Food industry (Milk, coffee, oil, drinks etc.).

Eau Technologie Environnement

Private Equity Round in 2007
Eau Technologie Environnement operates as a producer and distributor of mineral water. The company's product portfolio includes natural mineral water FIFA ste luce, mineral water dispenser bottles, mineral water pouch, soft drink pineapple extract, soft drink orange extract, and carbonated water. The company offers portable water, industrial water, bathing water, and residual water. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Cotonou, Benin. As of August 24, 2015, Eau Technologie Environnement operates as a subsidiary of Les Eaux Minérales d'Oulmès S.A.

Cipharm

Private Equity Round in 2014
CIPHARM is a pharmaceutical company specialized in the production, development and promotion of pharmaceutical specialties for human use.

CDCI

Private Equity Round in 2007
The CDCI (Compagnie de Distribution de Cote d'Ivoire) came out of the CFCI-TRADING, a dismemberment of the former Compagnie Francaise de Cote d'Ivoire (CFCI) established at the end of the 19th century in Abidjan. On January 3, 1989, CFCI-TRADING (a subsidiary of the Unilever African Company (UAC) group became the Ivory Coast Distribution Company (CDCI), a company specializing in the marketing of Unilever products in Côte d ' Ivoire, with 18 stores. December 4, 2002, Unilever-CI sells the company CDCI to its new owners who have a solid experience in large-scale distribution in CI and are known to be the head of the SOCOCE distribution company. On their arrival, they inspire a certain dynamism and a new commercial vision for the company, which is based on four pillars: 1. Proximity: Implement the CDCI and KING CASH outlets as close as possible to the populations; In the towns, districts, sub-prefectures and villages of Côte d'Ivoire. 2. Provide high-quality product lines 3. Focus our efforts on meeting the needs of our clients 4. Trust and practice a policy of integrating and empowering the human resources of our stores with material motivation according to well-defined objectives. Today, CISC has the largest national distribution coverage with its network of over one hundred wholesale, ½ wholesale and retail stores throughout Cote d'Ivoire. The new management system put in place to inject a dynamism and an expansion of activities involving huge investments and resource personnel. In its development, CDCI is committed to being a corporate citizen by being involved in the many social actions across the Ivory Coast, by supporting charities and direct aids to the population through its Sponsorship and sponsorship.

Bridge Bank Group

Private Equity Round in 2008
Bridge Group West Africa is a holding company which has a majority equity share in Bride Bank Cote d'Ivoire, an Ivorian universal bank and a minority significant equity stake in a bank in Senegal.

Moov Togo

Private Equity Round in 2006
Moov Togo is a telecommunications company that operates in Togo, West Africa.

SODIGAZ

Private Equity Round in 2009
SODIGAZ SA operates as a butane bottling and distribution company in Togo.

VIPNET SA

Private Equity Round in 2013
VIPNET provides interconnection, data transmission, internet and alternative telephony services to SMEs. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Africa West Industries SA

Private Equity Round in 2015
Africa West Industries SA manufactures household soaps. The company is based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Airtel Burkina Faso

Private Equity Round in 2003
Airtel Burkina Faso is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.

Bank of Africa Burkina Faso

Private Equity Round in 1997
Bank of Africa Burkina Faso provides financial services such as banking and insurance.

Bank of Africa Côte D'ivoire

Private Equity Round in 1996
Bank of Africa - Côte D’ivoire provides various banking and financial services in Ivory Coast. It offers banking products, such as demand deposits, savings accounts, and term accounts and cash vouchers; and various loan products, as well as a range of bank insurance products.

Socopharm

Private Equity Round in 2009
Socopharm is the oldest wholesale distributor of pharmaceuticals in Togo.

Niger Lait

Private Equity Round in 1998
NIGER-Lait.S.A. operates as a dairy factory that produces milk and milk related products in Niger. The company also offers collection and distribution on milk products. It offers agro products in Niger.

Orange Mali

Private Equity Round in 2006
Orange Mali SA is a telecommunications company that offers mobile, fixed line, and Internet services through wholesalers, semi-wholesalers, and retailers in Mali.

Azalaï Hotels

Private Equity Round in 2012
The Azalaï Hotels Group is the first hotel chain in West Africa and a regional leader in the hotel sector. With more than 20 years of experience, a head office based in Mali, Azalaï Hotels has developed a strategy oriented to satisfy the growing needs of its customers by constantly improving the quality of its high-end service through meticulous renovation Of its hotel units and by a rigorous management of its rapidly growing portfolio. From Bamako to Ouagadougou, Cotonou, Bissau, Nouakchott and Abidjan, the success of the Azalaï Hotels Group is enhanced by a warm welcome and high quality service guaranteed by African hospitality. This high-quality service is the result of the work of all the company's employees. The Azalaï Hotels Group generates more than 4000 direct and indirect jobs across the subregion.

Groupe Banque Atlantique

Private Equity Round in 2012
Banque Atlantique offers banking, management and financial intermediation, and services and IT engineering operations in Africa. It offers private banking services, such as checking accounts, savings and investments, bank cards, loans, insurance, money transfer, and VIP and financial intermediation. The company’s business banking services include savings solutions, such as demand deposits, ordinary savings accounts, term deposits, and interest bearing notes; and payment services, including checks, transfers, permanent transfers, deduction at source orders, and cash management services.

Access Bank Plc.

Post in 2002
Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union money transfer services.

CAFE Informatique & Télécommunications

Private Equity Round in 2001
CAFE Informatique & Télécommunications S.A. operates as an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

SAPLAIT

Private Equity Round in 1999
SAPLAIT produces milk, butter and other dairy products. It is based in Abidjan.