Abraaj Group

We are a global institution investing in growth markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Turkey. Founded in 2002 by Founder and Chief Executive Arif Naqvi, we have pioneered the private equity industry in many of the markets where we operate. Our journey has been one of innovation and entrepreneurial drive. We have developed a purpose-built approach for investing in growth markets. Some of the world’s most demanding institutions have entrusted us to manage capital on their behalf. We currently manage US$ 13.6 billion in assets and are focused on investment strategies across private equity, private credit, impact investing and real estate. By combining deep local reach, a global platform and underwriting standards, with extensive operating capabilities, we generate industry-leading returns and create value in market-leading companies.
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Ijeoma Agboti

Director

TA

Tas Anvaripour

Partner

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Ainadin Cader

Director

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Fabrice Callet

MD and Head of Product Development

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Tania Choufani

MD

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David Donaldson

CFO

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Ghizlan Guenez

Director

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Sameh Hassan

Investment Professional

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Aly S. Jeddy

Partner

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Carsten Jorgensen

Partner

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Talgat Kukenov

MD

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Aman Lakhaney

Director

Omar Lodhi

Co-Chief Executive, Partner and Head of Asia

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Marwan Ahmad Lutfi

SVP

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Marc Mandaba

MD

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Abhinav Munshi

MD

Arif Naqvi

Founder and Group Chief Executive

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Talat A. Naseer

SVP

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Thomas M. Schmidheiny

Director

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Frederic Sicre

MD and Executive Director

Omar Syed

Partner

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Ahamed Abdul Wahid

SVP

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Michael Wright

SVP

Selcuk Yorgancioglu

Partner

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Claudia Ziegler

VP

Past deals in Qatar

Islamabad Diagnostics Centre

Private Equity Round in 2017
Islamabad Diagnostics Centre provides medical diagnostic services. The company offers radiology, laboratory, imaging, dental, woman health, neurology, cardiac, bone health, and respiratory services. It also offers services in the areas of screening profiles, health packages, medical tourism, visa medical, and health screening package. The company serves medical institutions, non-medical institutions, and patients in Pakistan. Islamabad Diagnostics Centre was founded in 2003 and is based in Islamabad, Pakistan with branches in Rawalpindi, Hayatabad, and Peshawar.

Casaideas

Acquisition in 2017
A Chile-based home design and decorations company.

Liberty Star Consumer Holdings

Acquisition in 2014
Libstar was founded in 2005 as an investment holding company investing in companies operating in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry. The company focuses on the food, beverage, household, and personal care segments of the market. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, Libstar has annualized net revenues in excess of R7bn. The group consists of 28 business units that operate nationally across 31 sites located in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape provinces. Libstar offers its customers a wide range of products with the convenience of a single supplier with a nationwide presence, and distribution and manufacturing capacity. The group concentrates on supplying the needs of the foods service industry, private label segments of larger retailers and the manufacturing of products for brand owners, as well as its own branded products.

Careem

Series C in 2015
Careem designs an online booking platform that connects passengers with local drivers. Its platform offers a marketplace of community drivers where passengers can request a ride in minutes, see the cost, and have it charged to their selected credit card, which helps passengers have access to affordable and advantageous transportation. Abdulla Elyas, Magnus Olsson, and Mudassir Sheika founded Careem on June 15, 2012, with its headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Selina

Series B in 2018
Selina is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands, combining beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking spaces, wellness, recreational offerings and local experiences for today’s nomadic traveler to live, work and explore anywhere in the world. With a design-centric, technology-first and socially-minded approach to travel, Selina currently operates 24 urban, beach, jungle and mountain-side locations across eight countries and is developing a global infrastructure for nomads who want to make the world their classroom, office, and playground.

Capa de Ozono

Private Equity Round in 2016
Capa de Ozono was established in 1992 in the state of Guanajuato, the capital of the footwear industry in Mexico, and today has 207 stores in more than 50 cities, including the six largest, as well as more than 300 wholesale clients and an online retail presence. The Company, which is family owned, caters to teenagers and young adults in men’s and women’s footwear fashion. It is positioned to benefit from rising consumption and consumer credit expansion as well as the unprecedented growth of second-and third-tier cities in Mexico. The footwear sector in Mexico is projected to experience strong market growth of 8% over the next five years, driven by demographic factors and growth in disposable income.

BigBasket

Series E in 2017
BigBasket is an online food and grocery store that delivers personal and household needs right to customers' doorstep. The company believes in being smart, quick, and efficient making life as leisurely as possible. Customers can browse through the vast range of products at bigbasket.com, order, and get them to be delivered at the customers' own convenient time slot. The company handpicks each and every product, putting it through a safety packaging process, and delivering to customers' home.

BigBasket

Series E in 2018
BigBasket is an online food and grocery store that delivers personal and household needs right to customers' doorstep. The company believes in being smart, quick, and efficient making life as leisurely as possible. Customers can browse through the vast range of products at bigbasket.com, order, and get them to be delivered at the customers' own convenient time slot. The company handpicks each and every product, putting it through a safety packaging process, and delivering to customers' home.

BigBasket

Series D in 2016
BigBasket is an online food and grocery store that delivers personal and household needs right to customers' doorstep. The company believes in being smart, quick, and efficient making life as leisurely as possible. Customers can browse through the vast range of products at bigbasket.com, order, and get them to be delivered at the customers' own convenient time slot. The company handpicks each and every product, putting it through a safety packaging process, and delivering to customers' home.

C & I Leasing Plc

Acquisition in 2019
C&I Leasing provide operating and finance leases & other ancillary services.

Koba International Group

Private Equity Round in 2010
A Colombian retailer with around 500 stores

Clinique Specialisee Menara

Acquisition in 2015
The Menara oncology center was founded in 2013 by six experienced doctors and medical professors. Leveraging its reputed medical team, Menara has grown into one of the leading referral oncology, radiology and diagnostics centers in Marrakech with plans to invest in additional radiotherapy technology.

Synapse Algerian

Private Equity Round in 2013
Synapse is a leading Algerian logistics company established in 2004. It specialises in transportation, storage and warehouse management services. It has a fleet of approximately 300 trucks and has around 350 employees.

Yörsan

Acquisition in 2014
Yörsan produces high standard, reliable cheese by making it healthy and tasty for consumers.

Centre de Traitement Al Kindy

Acquisition in 2015
Founded by Dr. Mohamed El Morchid and Dr. Abdellatif Bouih in 1989, Al Kindy is the first private oncology center in Morocco. Located in Casablanca, a city with a population of over 4 million people, Al Kindy is the largest private clinic of its kind in Morocco and is recognized for the calibre of its medical professionals and the sophistication of its medical technology and equipment, including two state-of-the-art Varian Rapid Arc Linear Accelerators (LINACs). Al Kindy serves patients from Morocco and neighbouring countries such as Mauritania, Mali and Senegal.

Indorama Fertilizers

Acquisition in 2016
Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers for local farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe

BRN Sleep Products

Private Equity Round in 2015
BRN Sleep Products is a privately held company that is a suppliers of mattresses, covers, boxsprings and adjustable beds.

Fan Milk PLC

Acquisition in 2013
Founded by a Danish entrepreneur, Fan Milk has been in existence since 1962. The company was converted to a public limited liability in 1969, and is currently engaged in the production and distribution of milk-based and fruit-based products. Their milk-based products consist of a range of frozen ice creams, chocolate and yoghurt, and they include such brands as FanYogo (yoghurt), FanChoco (chocolate), FanIce (ice cream). Their fruit-based products include FanDango (fruit drink) and FanPop.

UAP Group

Venture Round in 2012
UAP Group is a pan-African financial services group with interests in insurance, investment management, property development and investments, securities brokerage and financial advisory. The history of the Group can be traced back by over 90 years while recent expansion and growth in the East African market have made UAP one of the key players in the financial services sector in the region. Currently, the group has businesses operating in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania.

Cinepax Limited

Private Equity Round in 2017
Cinepax Limited owns and operates cinemas in Pakistan. Cinepax Limited was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Kudu

Private Equity Round in 2015
Over 30 years ago, the founders of Kudu set out to create an entirely new eating experience for people in Saudi Arabia, with over 327 restaurants open across the country, we can proudly say that we've created a winning concept that has endured and morphed into the phenomenon that is known today as Kudu. With the implementation of rigorous staff training and state of the art management systems, we’ve ensured consistently high standards of quality, reliability, and efficiency. Such continuous adherence to standards has been the reason KUDU has successfully received both the ISO: 22000:2005 and the HACCP SQF 2000 internationally renowned management systems certificates. With over 30 years of experience and growth, our know-how has taken us beyond our region and into true prosperity.

NYMGO S.A

Series A in 2010
Nymgo is making the world smaller by connecting under-privileged immigrants with their families back home. Nymgo Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software offers immigrant communities a low-cost and high-quality solution for calling landlines and mobile phones in regions where Internet and broadband infrastructure remain scarce.

Jhimpir Power

Acquisition in 2017
Jhimpir Power Private Limited builds and operates wind power project. The company was formerly known as Dewan Energy Private Limited. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Pakistan.

BigBasket

Venture Round in 2017
BigBasket is an online food and grocery store that delivers personal and household needs right to customers' doorstep. The company believes in being smart, quick, and efficient making life as leisurely as possible. Customers can browse through the vast range of products at bigbasket.com, order, and get them to be delivered at the customers' own convenient time slot. The company handpicks each and every product, putting it through a safety packaging process, and delivering to customers' home.

Urbano Express Holdings, LLC

Acquisition in 2015
URBANO was established in Ecuador in 1996, expanding to El Salvador in 1998 and Peru in 2003. From an initial focus on postal distribution and mass mailing, the Company has diversified its service offerings and is now organized into five business lines: Document Delivery, Parcel and Package, External Logistics, Printing and Document Management Services, and Business Intelligence Services. URBANO’s corporate clients include financial institutions, telecom operators, traditional retailers and e-commerce companies.

Yu-Ce Medical

Private Equity Round in 2015
Yu-Ce Medical is a medical gauze and medical sponge producer, and among the few domestic surgical suture producers in Turkey. The Company carries out its manufacturing operations in two company-owned factories and has an established sales platform across Turkey, including a diversified customer base of more than 230 state, university and private hospitals and over 190 medical distributors.

CARE Hospitals Group

Acquisition in 2016
CARE Hospitals Group is a specialist healthcare provider.

Tiba Group

Venture Round in 2015
TIBA Cargo Perú provides freight forwarding services in Peru. TIBA Cargo Perú was formerly known as FP Cargo Logistics S.A.C. As a result of the acquisition of FP Cargo Logistics S.A.C by TIBA Spain, S.A.U., FP Cargo Logistics S.A.C's name was changed. TIBA Cargo Perú is based in Lima, Peru. As per the transaction announced on September 22, 2017, TIBA Cargo Perú operates as a subsidiary of TIBA Spain, S.A.U.

Fan Milk PLC

Private Equity Round in 2013
Founded by a Danish entrepreneur, Fan Milk has been in existence since 1962. The company was converted to a public limited liability in 1969, and is currently engaged in the production and distribution of milk-based and fruit-based products. Their milk-based products consist of a range of frozen ice creams, chocolate and yoghurt, and they include such brands as FanYogo (yoghurt), FanChoco (chocolate), FanIce (ice cream). Their fruit-based products include FanDango (fruit drink) and FanPop.

Rainbow Hospitals

Venture Round in 2013
Rainbow Hospital offers all services you will need through pregnancy. All of your antenatal appointments, scans, blood tests, advice and exercise classes are available to you at Rainbow Hospital. Whether you would like a natural birth, a water birth, an epidural for painless delivery we can help you make your delivery a rewarding experience.

Mouka

Acquisition in 2015
Mouka Limited manufactures pillows, mattresses, sheetings, and polyurethane blocks. The company’s products also include foam blocks, beddings and duvets, polyurethane blocks, and other foam materials for household and industrial markets. It offers its products through a network of retail stores, distributors, sub-distributors, and online channels in Nigeria. Mouka Limited was formerly known as Moukarim Metalwood Factory Limited and changed its name to Mouka Limited in 1972. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Tunisie Télécom

Secondary Market in 2017
Tunisie Telecom is the fully integrated telecom services operator in Tunisia, with leading market positions across all segments with over 7 million customers and an employee base of c.7,500. Tunisie Telecom offers the largest mobile coverage in the country, owns and operates a nationwide fixed and fiber network infrastructure. This is complemented by an extensive submarine cable network allowing for direct and fully redundant connectivity with Europe, Africa and Asia. Tunisie Telecom’s service offering ranges from 4G mobile broadband to Fiber-To-The-Home and Fiber-To-The-Building as well as cloud and IP-MPLS solutions for entreprises.

Aureos Capital

Acquisition in 2012
Aureos Capital is a Chinese fund management firm that provides services across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Oksa Maroc

Venture Round in 2008
Oksa is a service company operating in the electro technology field with 3 main activities: (i) improvement of the performance of electrical networks through the detection of fraud and technical problems, (ii) preventive maintenance of electrical transformers through chemical analysis and (iii) diagnosis of electrical networks with infrared cameras.

Netlog Lojistik Hizmetleri A.S.

Private Equity Round in 2017
Netlog is a Turkey based, integrated logistics and transport services provider with operations in three continents. Netlog Logistics is the largest transport company in Turkey, and one of the fastest growing logistics companies in the EMEA region. Netlog has 23 companies and market leading logistics service brands in its portfolio, and operates an owned network of freight forwarding offices in key markets worldwide, as well as 74 warehouses across the EMEA region. Since 2013, Netlog has been in transition from being the “Lead local logistics player” to the “Leading regional logistics service provider.”

QBCo SAS

Private Equity Round in 2017
QBCo develops, manufactures, and markets consumer products, such as edible oils, margarine, pet food, and preserved and canned goods.

Viking Services

Acquisition in 2012
Viking Services B.V. provides integrated services to the oil and gas and geothermal industries. The company offers oil and gas drilling and completion, well servicing, pressure pumping, wireline, geophysical, civil engineering, and transportation solutions. Viking Services B.V. is headquartered in Amsterdam Zuidoost, the Netherlands.

CEPRO S.P.A

Secondary Market in 2016
CEPRO S.P.A is active in the algerian market of the single use hygienic product manifacturing and distribution.

Avenue Healthcare

Acquisition in 2017
The Avenue Group is dedicated to the provision of high quality, affordable and accessible healthcare. The Avenue Group includes the following companies; Avenue Hospital Avenue Healthcare Avenue Homecare Avenue Rescue Services.
Plastic Electromechanic Company SA engages in plastic injection, and assembly of electrical equipment and harnesses, and medical products. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Zaghouan, Tunisia.

Joint Medical Holdings Ltd.

Private Equity Round in 2018
Joint Medical Holdings Ltd. owns and operates healthcare facilities. The company operates hospitals, including City, Ascot Park, Isipingo, Durdoc, and Richards Bay. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Durban, South Africa. As of July 24, 2012, Joint Medical Holdings Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Life Healthcare Group (Pty) Ltd.

Moulin D'Or

Venture Round in 2012
Moulin D’or was founded in 1984 in Ajaltoun, Lebanon to serve the local community with the best Lebanese pita bread. In 2000, it opened a new branch in the Jeita region, which features a state-of-the-art production facility, showroom, and restaurant. Thanks to exceptional quality products and services, the company rapidly experienced an increase in customers and is today one of the largest organizations in the bakery, pastry and restoration industries in the region. Today, Moulin D’or offers a continually expanding product line including French bread and pastries, Lebanese pastries, ice-cream, fast food, snacks, catering and much more.

Java House

Acquisition in 2017
Java House (formerly known as Nairobi Java House) launched operations in 1999 and has since expanded to 54 branches as of November 2016 throughout Nairobi, elsewhere in Kenya, and in Uganda. For Kenya’s consumer class, Java House represents a high-quality, affordable restaurant destination with exceptional African-grown coffee and a full menu of international cuisine. By day, it is frequented by business professionals; by night and during the weekends, friends and family gather to socialize and dine in the unique family-friendly ambiance. In addition to the casual dining restaurant brand, the company has also launched Planet Yogurt, the first self-serve frozen yogurt brand in Africa, and, more recently, a Nairobi-based pizzeria called 360 Degrees.

Ninja Van

Series B in 2016
Ninja Van is the growing startup in the logistics space, solving the last mile problem via a multitude of strategic tie-ups and a cutting edge technology stack via our reactive and distributed systems. We firmly believe that optimization of logistics in Asia revolves around a routing software layer controlling legacy assets while concurrently building our own hardware, infrastructure and assets if necessary to enable the new age of logistics. Imagine scalable capacity on demand. Imagine routing and sharing of corporate fleets. Imagine affordable multi-modal same-day courier.

The Entertainer

Venture Round in 2012
The Entertainer Company operates as a boutique publishing company. It publishes books that contain various buy one get one free vouchers for restaurants, spas, and leisure attractions. The company offers the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Cyprus, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and travel books. It offers its books online and through a network of selected outlets. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The Entertainer FZ LLC publishes books in the United Arab Emirates. The company solicits and collects two for one from companies engaged in the restaurant, hotel, leisure, spa, and entertainment categories, and distributes those offers directly to customers in the form of books and online offers. Its products include Dubai Bundle 2018, Dubai 2018, Fine Dining 2018, and Cheers Dubai 2018. The company also provides software that connects businesses with customers and employees. The Entertainer FZ LLC was founded in 2001 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Fibabanka

Private Equity Round in 2016
Fibabanka (‘Fibabanka’ or the ‘Bank) is one of the prominent banks in Turkey with a highly experienced management team.

Hepsiburada.com

Private Equity Round in 2015
Hepsiburada operates as a subsidiary of Dogan Online Holding Group, Turkey’s leading internet and digital media company. The company was founded in 1998 by five people working from a studio flat in Istanbul focusing on online orders for IT hardware, driving them out to customers. Company later continued to expand its category and selection base as Hepsiburada from 2000 on. Today Hepsiburada is the largest e-commerce platform in the EEMEA region and the fastest-growing e-commerce platform in Europe, with more than 17 million different products available across more than 35 categories, ranging from clothing and beauty products, to auto supplies and electronics. Hepsiburada.com currently averages 102 million total monthly visits and 32 million unique monthly visitors from across Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Its customers are supported by Hepsiburada's cutting-edge technological and logistical infrastructure, which brings the latest developments in last-mile delivery to its customers while empowering its vendors to take part in Turkey's burgeoning digital economy. Hepsiburada also has the largest and most advanced e-commerce operations infrastructure in Turkey, with 100,000 m2 of operational surface area at its operations center, which accommodates 250.000+ products, and shipments of over 2 million products monthly. Hepsiburada is an ardent supporter of entrepreneurs from underrepresented regions and populations. It proudly partners with woman-led companies and female vendors across Turkey to promote female entrepreneurship through opportunity, leveraging the immense reach of e-commerce to connect enterprises with markets they wouldn't otherwise have access to.