Verod Capital Management
Verod Capital Management Limited is a private equity firm established in 2008, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with an additional office in Ghana. The firm focuses on mid-market investments, primarily in West Africa, particularly in Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Verod specializes in growth capital and buyout transactions across various sectors, including financial services, business services, education, healthcare, agriculture, consumer goods, light manufacturing, civil engineering, media, technology, real estate, and energy. The firm typically invests between $3 million and $20 million, seeking to acquire either a majority or significant minority equity stake in its portfolio companies. Verod aims to enhance the value of these companies through active management, fostering strong governance practices and operational improvements, and typically holds investments for four to seven years. By partnering with motivated management teams and focusing on companies with proven business models and growth potential, Verod seeks to build sustainable regional leaders in their respective industries.
Metropolitan Life Nigeria is a life insurance company offering group life and credit life products to clients across the public and private spheres.
Daystar Power specialises in providing solar power and energy efficiency solutions for businesses in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors that result in significant reduction of power costs, diesel consumption and pollution.
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
Union Trustees provides fund management and nominee services to its clients, which include state governments, corporations and individuals.
Niyya Farm Group Limited is the holding company of an agro-processing business that produces fresh fruit juice and dairy products. Niyya Food & Drinks Company Limited is a subsidiary of Niyya Farm Group Limited and the manufacturer of Farm Pride Yoghurt and Farm Pride Juices. Farm Pride Juice is grown from quality 100% Nigerian fruits harvested from Niyya-Farm Group’s extensive farm. Niyya Farms owns 3,000+ hectares of land, with a twin state of the art processing plant for production of the Fresh Fruit Juices and Yoghurt. Its products are made from raw fruits and not concentrates, unlike other competitors in the market who use imported concentrates for juice production, this makes their products prime target for everybody, especially to health conscious consumers.
Rotoprint Ltd
Venture Round in 2011
Rotoprint Ltd is a manufacturer of flexible plastic packaging for the consumer goods sector and serves over 300 customers. The company manufactures products such as printed Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) shrink labels, shrink films, tamper evident bands, tapes, wraps, and sleeves in Nigeria.
GZ Industries is an indigenous company that manufactures aluminium beverage cans in West Africa.
The factory was commissioned in August 2010 to manufacture Aluminum beverage cans for brewers and bottling companies in Nigeria and other West African countries. It reached capacity of 1.2 billion cans, per annum, in 2012. .
GZI’s 46,000 m2 factory is world-class, with state-of-the-art equipment sourced from Europe and the USA. The space is sufficient for additional manufacturing expansion in the future or/and inclusion of a can filling line. The Company employs 250 personnel, including Nigerian and expatriate staff.
H.F.P. Engineering Limited is a building and civil engineering company, which specializes in conventional building construction techniques, prefabrication systems, infrastructure construction and development, as well as electro-mechanical projects. struction companies under both the Lagos State Government and the Federal Ministry of Works. H.F.P has provided thousands of houses for Nigeria families built schools for Nigerian children, constructed industrial areas, developed revolutionary new housing projects, established hospitals, laid hundreds of kilometers of roads across the country.