Investec

Investec is a financial services company founded in 1974 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It operates in multiple regions, including South Africa, Australia, and internationally, through three key divisions: asset management, wealth and investment, and specialist banking. The asset management division offers active investment products across global and emerging markets, catering to both institutional and individual investors. The wealth and investment division focuses on providing comprehensive wealth management services, including portfolio management, tax planning, and stockbroking for high-net-worth clients. The specialist banking division delivers a range of banking solutions, including private banking, corporate and institutional banking, and corporate advisory services. Investec serves diverse clientele, including individuals, businesses, and corporations, with a commitment to offering tailored financial products and services designed to meet their specific needs.

Derek Crawley

Partner

Thomas Prins

Head of Private Equity

Nick Rusling

Director, Fund Finance

Past deals in Sub Saharan Africa

Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Series A in 2021
Omnisient (Pty) Ltd, established in 2014 and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, operates the online platform intersect.ai, which facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while ensuring data privacy and information security. The platform empowers users to monetize their data by creating evaluable data sets that can be traded securely, fostering innovation and enhancing profitability for its clients. Through its services, Omnisient supports businesses in leveraging data to drive growth and achieve their objectives.

Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
Omnisient (Pty) Ltd, established in 2014 and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, operates the online platform intersect.ai, which facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while ensuring data privacy and information security. The platform empowers users to monetize their data by creating evaluable data sets that can be traded securely, fostering innovation and enhancing profitability for its clients. Through its services, Omnisient supports businesses in leveraging data to drive growth and achieve their objectives.

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.

Resolute Mining

Post in 2018
Resolute is a successful gold miner with more than 25 years of continuous production. The Company is an experienced explorer, developer, and operator having operated nine gold mines across Australia and Africa which have produced in excess of 7 million ounces of gold. The Company currently operates two mines, the Syama Gold Mine in Africa and the Ravenswood Gold Mine in Australia, and is one of the largest gold producers listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with FY17 guidance of 300,000 ounces of gold production at All-in-Sustaining-Costs of A$1,280/oz (US$934/oz). Resolute’s flagship Syama Gold Mine in Mali is a robust long life asset benefitting from fully operational parallel sulphide and oxide processing plants. The move to underground mining will continue the asset’s history of strong cash generation and extend the mine life to out beyond 2028. ​The Ravenswood Gold Mine in Queensland, Australia demonstrates Resolute’s significant underground expertise in the ongoing success in mining the Mt Wright ore body. In Ghana, the Company has completed a feasibility study on the Bibiani Gold Project focused on the development of an underground operation requiring modest capital and using existing plant infrastructure. Resolute also controls an extensive exploration footprint along the highly prospective Syama Shear and greenstone belts in Mali and Cote d’Ivoire and is active in reviewing new opportunities to build shareholder value.

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 Telecom

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.