Investec

Investec is a specialist bank and asset management company founded in 1974 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It operates through three main divisions: asset management, wealth and investment, and specialist banking. The asset management division focuses on active investment products across various markets, including global and emerging economies. The wealth and investment division offers comprehensive services such as portfolio management, financial planning, and stockbroking for individuals and institutions. The specialist banking division provides a wide range of financial services, including private banking, corporate and institutional banking, lending, and advisory services. Investec serves high-income and high-net-worth clients, as well as corporate and institutional customers, in South Africa, the UK, Australia, and globally. The firm emphasizes tailored financial solutions, leveraging expertise in transaction advisory, capital markets, and investment strategies to meet the diverse needs of its clientele.

Antonio Maria Cravo

VP - Power and Infrastructure Finance

Cumesh Moodliar

CEO

Past deals in Southern Africa

Jem

Seed Round in 2022
SmartWage Pty Ltd. is a financial technology company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that provides innovative payday solutions aimed at enhancing financial wellness for employees. Founded in 2019, SmartWage offers services that allow employees to track their earnings and access their earned salaries on demand. The company also provides salary-packaging administration services to both employers and employees, making it one of the most affordable and accessible options in the South African market. Through its offerings, SmartWage seeks to improve the overall financial well-being of individuals by enabling timely access to earned wages.

TallOrder

Series A in 2022
Developer of cloud-based systems designed to improve users' overall POS (Point of Sale) experience. The company products can be deployed by retailers, service companies, and hospitality businesses with the cloud-based solution ideal for SMEs who typically have less internet technology (IT) skills on board and do not have the time or resources needed to deal with the logistics of point-of-sale solutions, enabling businesses to increases revenue and lowers costs.

Omnisient

Series A in 2021
Omnisient (Pty) Ltd operates intersect.ai, an online platform that facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while safeguarding data privacy and information security. Founded in 2014 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, the company empowers users to monetize their data by creating revenue-generating data sets, evaluating them, and enabling secure trading of these sets. The platform employs advanced cryptography and artificial intelligence to address privacy concerns, allowing businesses to access consumer data ecosystems efficiently. Omnisient's innovative approach supports businesses in enhancing their profitability and fostering growth through effective data collaboration.

Omnisient

Seed Round in 2020
Omnisient (Pty) Ltd operates intersect.ai, an online platform that facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while safeguarding data privacy and information security. Founded in 2014 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, the company empowers users to monetize their data by creating revenue-generating data sets, evaluating them, and enabling secure trading of these sets. The platform employs advanced cryptography and artificial intelligence to address privacy concerns, allowing businesses to access consumer data ecosystems efficiently. Omnisient's innovative approach supports businesses in enhancing their profitability and fostering growth through effective data collaboration.

EV Cargo

Debt Financing in 2019
EV Cargo systematically operates worldwide, using an intermodal freight transport network that spans across the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand, the USA, and continental Europe. EV Cargo believes in a partnership approach. Although each brand is an international supply chain business, collaboration, communication and sustainability underpin each and every business. In some instances, the businesses were passed down to generations and continue to operate under core values of integrity and ethics, alongside those of innovation and development.

Atura

Series A in 2018
Atura is a company that specializes in developing automated chatbots tailored for the asset management, insurance, and lending industries. Its chatbot utilizes advanced language processing and contextual understanding to facilitate secure transactions and enhance communication. The system allows for convenient handovers to live agents when clients require assistance beyond the chatbot's capabilities. By providing functional translation and maintaining brand presence, Atura's chatbot aims to improve the consistency of client experiences while reducing operational costs for financial planners and their clients.

Kamoso

Private Equity Round in 2017
Kamoso Distribution (Pty) Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of consumer goods and medical supplies, primarily serving the retail and healthcare sectors in Southern Africa. The company offers a diverse range of products, including fast-moving consumer goods, groceries, beverages, personal care items, pharmaceuticals, liquor, building materials, and equipment. Operating from facilities in Botswana and South Africa, Kamoso caters to the needs of retailers in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, ensuring a wide distribution of essential products across these markets. Based in Gaborone, Botswana, Kamoso is committed to meeting the demands of both consumers and businesses in the region.

IDWALA

Acquisition in 2017
Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited is a South African company that specializes in the production of industrial minerals and lime. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Honeydew, the company operates through two main divisions: Lime and Industrial Minerals. Idwala's product offerings include calcium carbonate, pyrophyllite, magnetite, and lime, which are produced at various locations, including Danielskuil, Powerville, and Benoni. The company also has operations for magnetite in Phalaborwa and carbonates in Port Shepstone. Idwala is committed to environmental and social responsibility, emphasizing its focus on niche markets within the industrial minerals sector. Its sales and marketing division supports operations in major cities such as Benoni, Durban, Port Shepstone, and Cape Town.

Vumatel

Venture Round in 2015
Vumatel (Pty) Ltd. supplies high-speed broadband connectivity to homes primarily in the suburbs of South Africa. The company offers data, IPTV, and VOIP services from various providers. It installs and operates an open access fiber network that supports a host of new services, such as downloading latest movies, games, and music; streaming live HDTV; calls over the Internet; working from home; video conferencing; and home security through monitoring and other services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Randburg, South Africa.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Debt Financing in 2015
Liquid Telecom is an independent data, voice, and IP provider that commits to build a digital future. Liquid Telecom has built Africa’s largest single fibre network, currently stretching over 18,000km across Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho and South Africa. The award-winning Pan-African fibre network covers Africa’s fastest growing economies, where no fixed network has existed before.
Keaton Energy Holdings Limited (Keaton Energy) is a coal mining and development company, with its shares listed on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The company’s assets comprise two operating collieries, Vanggatfontein and Vaalkrantz; two development projects, Sterkfontein and Braakfontein; and an exploration pipeline including three prospects that have potential as expansions to existing collieries and projects, and two that may result in new development projects.
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