Phatisa

Phatisa is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mauritius. It specializes in investments in small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on management buy-outs, expansions, acquisitions, and start-ups. The firm emphasizes sectors such as food and affordable housing across sub-Saharan Africa. Phatisa also invests in real estate projects, primarily targeting affordable and middle-income residential developments alongside mixed-use projects in urban areas. However, it excludes investments in bio-fuels, timber, alcoholic beverages, seed capital, short-term bridging, debt finance, and does not provide grants or soft loans.

Imane El Alaoui-Grollemund

Principal

Nieks Bezuidenhout

Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager

Stuart Bradley

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Ryan Burns

Principal

Martin Kromat

Senior Partner

Jan van der Merwe

Fund Partner

Rinolan Moodley

Senior Partner

Asif Noorani

Principal

Okomboli Ong'ong'a

Senior Fund Partner - Properties

Izelle le Roux-Owen

Co-Founder and Partner, Corporate Communications

Past deals in South Africa

Kanu Equipment

Acquisition in 2017
Kanu Equipment Ltd. engages in the distribution of road construction and earthmoving equipment in Africa. It distributes agriculture equipment, including articulated tractors, cane loaders, forklifts, haulage tractors, tandem trailers, and versa lifts; earthmoving equipment, such as crawler excavators, crawler loaders, crawler tractor/bulldozers, wheeled excavators, and wheel loaders; forestry equipment, including harvesting heads, felling heads, forwarders, wheel harvesters, track harvesters, tiger cat loggers, skidders, track feller bunchers, drive-to-tree feller bunchers, loaders, loggers, and timber trucks; mining and construction equipment, such as articulated dump trucks, jaw crushers, impact crushers, and cone crushers; and mobile cranes, including LTM and all-terrain mobile cranes. Kanu Equipment Ltd. was formerly known as Torre Equipment Africa Limited. The company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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