Standard Bank

Standard Bank Group, founded in 1863 and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a global bank with African roots. As South Africa's largest bank, it operates extensively in 17 African countries and in 16 countries outside the continent with a focus on emerging markets. Standard Bank offers banking and related financial services to its clients, leveraging its expertise in emerging markets and global perspective to benefit customers worldwide.

Arno Daehnke

Group Financial Director

Jacques Fourie

Investment Professional

Edward Hammer

SVP

Sarah Rivett-Carnac

Head of Investor Relations

Charleen Wiehe

Manager, Investor Relations and Communications

44 past transactions

FirePay

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
FirePay develops mobile payment technology product. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in South Africa. As of December 9, 2016, FirePay operates as a subsidiary of Standard Bank Group Limited.

Payment24

Merger/Acquisition in 2020
Payment24 Pty Ltd. develops and operates a card and mobile payment platform. The company provides technology solutions for fleet fuel management, fleet card systems for oil companies, and auto dealerships. It also provides payment systems, mobile solutions, and retail solutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

HelloChoice

Corporate Round in 2021
HelloChoice is digital trading and auction platform that is transforming the agricultural trade by directly connecting Farmers and Buyers.

Consolidated Infrastructure Group

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Consolidated Infrastructure Group (CIG) is a Pan-African infrastructure-focused group operating in multiple sectors, including power, mining, logistics and waste management. The group’s footprint extends across 21 African countries and 3 countries in the Middle East and approximately 50% of profit is derived outside South Africa.

Trevali Mining

Post in 2022
Trevali Mining operates as a zinc-focused base metals mining company with one producing operation in Peru and another currently undergoing commissioning in Canada. In Peru, the company is actively producing zinc and lead-silver concentrates from its 2,000-tonne-per-day Santander mine. In Canada, Trevali owns the Caribou mine and mill, Halfmile mine, and Stratmat deposit all located in the Bathurst Mining Camp of northern New Brunswick. The company is currently commissioning its 3,000-tonne-per-day Caribou mine.

Sun King

Debt Financing in 2021
Greenlight Planet Inc develops and manufactures solar lighting and energy devices. It manufactures solar lighting devices, including solar lamps, solar lanterns with mobile charger, and home energy systems. The company offers its products through a network of distributors and it also offers its product online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in Mumbai, India; and Nairobi, Kenya.

Tsogo Sun Gaming Limited (JSE:TSG)

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Tsogo Sun Hotels Limited owns, leases, and manages hotels in South Africa. The company operates through four segments: Manco, Rental Income – HPF, Internally Managed, and Offshore. The company operates hotels and resorts under the Southern Sun Hotels and Resorts, SunSquare, Garden Court, StayEasy, SUN1, hi Hotels brand names. It consists of a portfolio of 110 hotels. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

PayBox

Seed Round in 2015
PayBox is a virtual bank account for groups, teams and communities who wish to collect, manage and spend money collectively. PayBox was designed for millennials and generation Y after understanding the lack of proper tools to handle the complexity and diversity of group payments. During 2015, PayBox has been elected as the MOST promising FinTech startup in ISRAEL and secured a seed investment from the Bank Poalim, the largest bank in Israel.

WAY2VAT

Series A in 2017
Most foreign VAT today is left unclaimed by businesses. This is due to highly bureaucratic and complicated reclaim processes, and simply because businesses are not aware that VAT reclaim is possible. As a Fintech company, WAY2VAT’s B2B2E application is revolutionizing the way VAT is reclaimed by companies conducting business in foreign countries and regions – including Europe, APAC, Africa, and the Middle East.They’ve transformed a complicated, tedious, and highly bureaucratic process into a seamless one that increases a company’s bottom line – with their market potential estimated at $20B of unclaimed foreign business VAT each year. Business travelers will love WAY2VAT too. Their platform allows them to scan travel invoices with ‘one-click’ smartphone scanning, for automated reporting and reimbursement, and comprehensive travel reports at the end of their trips.

Helios Towers Tanzania

Debt Financing in 2016
Helios Towers Tanzania Ltd engages in the project planning, operation, management, and leasing of communication towers. It offers co-location and build to suit services. The company serves wireless operators ranging from GSM and CDMA to WIMAX across 2G, 3G, and 4G technology platforms. The company is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Helios Towers Tanzania Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Helios Towers Africa Limited.

Tsogo Sun Gaming Limited (JSE:TSG)

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Tsogo Sun Hotels Limited owns, leases, and manages hotels in South Africa. The company operates through four segments: Manco, Rental Income – HPF, Internally Managed, and Offshore. The company operates hotels and resorts under the Southern Sun Hotels and Resorts, SunSquare, Garden Court, StayEasy, SUN1, hi Hotels brand names. It consists of a portfolio of 110 hotels. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

TradeSafe

Corporate Round in 2020
TradeSafe is an independent online financial escrow platform that securely safeguards the buyer's funds and documentation in trust. The company is South Africa's trusted third party in a transaction between an individual and another party.

Payment24

Private Equity Round in 2020
Payment24 Pty Ltd. develops and operates a card and mobile payment platform. The company provides technology solutions for fleet fuel management, fleet card systems for oil companies, and auto dealerships. It also provides payment systems, mobile solutions, and retail solutions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tsogo Sun Gaming Limited (JSE:TSG)

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Tsogo Sun Hotels Limited owns, leases, and manages hotels in South Africa. The company operates through four segments: Manco, Rental Income – HPF, Internally Managed, and Offshore. The company operates hotels and resorts under the Southern Sun Hotels and Resorts, SunSquare, Garden Court, StayEasy, SUN1, hi Hotels brand names. It consists of a portfolio of 110 hotels. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Metrofibre Networx

Debt Financing in 2022
Metrofibre Networx is a managed bandwidth service provider and internet service provider (ISP) that builds and operates a number of fibre-to-the-premises access infrastructures in and between commercial business parks, business clusters, residential estates and suburbs (access infrastructures). These access infrastructures are, in turn, connected to a Metro-Core-Ring circling Tshwane and Johannesburg, interconnecting these parks, clusters and estates.

Nomanini

Series D in 2019
Nomanini SA (Pty) Ltd provides a platform to sell prepaid products, such as airtime, electricity, and insurance electronically. The company’s terminals are used by share-taxi drivers, street vendors, or informal retailers to sell prepaid vouchers and earn on-going profit. Its terminals are designed primarily for use in informal markets. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Westfalia Fruit

Debt Financing in 2023
Westfalia Fruit is a multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related processed​ products to international markets. Part of the Hans Merensky Holdings Group, Westfalia grows, sources and ripens, packs, processes and markets sustainably-grown avocados year round. Its vertically-integrated supply chain enables Westfalia to market quality fruit from across the globe.

Rewire

Venture Round in 2022
Rewire Ltd., a remittance company, provides money transfer services from Israel to internationally. It offers services that enable users to create a remittance order on their mobile phone/computer; deposit money to their Rewire's account (online, cash, and post office); and get notification when the beneficiary receives funds. The company’s services allow users to send money from Israel to the Philippines, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Russia. Rewire Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel.

Airports Company South Africa

Debt Financing in 2020
Airports Company of South Africa Limited operates nine of South Africa’s airports. Its head office is in the Maples Office Park.

Nomanini

Private Placement in 2019
Nomanini SA (Pty) Ltd provides a platform to sell prepaid products, such as airtime, electricity, and insurance electronically. The company’s terminals are used by share-taxi drivers, street vendors, or informal retailers to sell prepaid vouchers and earn on-going profit. Its terminals are designed primarily for use in informal markets. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Firepay

Acquisition in 2016
Firepay was formed in 2013 to apply new mobile payments technology to build innovative products.

Helios Towers DRC

Debt Financing in 2016
As the first independent tower company in Africa, Helios Towers Africa has been built from the ground up to provide passive infrastructure services in the fastest growing continent in the world. Seven of the world's ten fastest-growing economies are African. We have established one of Africa’s most extensive tower networks with more than 6,500 towers over four markets.

KudiGo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
KudiGo offers a mobile based integrated retail, accounting, payments and analytics engine for informal consumer retailers in Africa. Our solution enables users to leverage on innovative technology in gaining oversight of their business, adopt efficient book-keeping practices and become financial inclusive. We also leverages on big data and blockchain to enable transparency and allow for real-time oversight my manufacturers and distributors within our niche market.

Trade-Safe Holdings (Pty) Ltd.

Merger/Acquisition in 2020
Trade-Safe Holdings (Pty) Ltd. an online platform that provides digital financial escrow and payments services. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Sandton, South Africa.

WAY2VAT

Seed Round in 2015
Most foreign VAT today is left unclaimed by businesses. This is due to highly bureaucratic and complicated reclaim processes, and simply because businesses are not aware that VAT reclaim is possible. As a Fintech company, WAY2VAT’s B2B2E application is revolutionizing the way VAT is reclaimed by companies conducting business in foreign countries and regions – including Europe, APAC, Africa, and the Middle East.They’ve transformed a complicated, tedious, and highly bureaucratic process into a seamless one that increases a company’s bottom line – with their market potential estimated at $20B of unclaimed foreign business VAT each year. Business travelers will love WAY2VAT too. Their platform allows them to scan travel invoices with ‘one-click’ smartphone scanning, for automated reporting and reimbursement, and comprehensive travel reports at the end of their trips.

Rewire

Series A in 2019
Rewire Ltd., a remittance company, provides money transfer services from Israel to internationally. It offers services that enable users to create a remittance order on their mobile phone/computer; deposit money to their Rewire's account (online, cash, and post office); and get notification when the beneficiary receives funds. The company’s services allow users to send money from Israel to the Philippines, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Russia. Rewire Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel.

Stellar Capital Partners

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Stellar Capital Partners is a newly established investment holding company listed on the JSE (JSE ticker: SCP). The company, previously known as ConvergeNet Holdings Limited, has recently completed a R150 million private placement with prominent institutional investors and the acquisition of its initial investment portfolio, thereby seeking to leverage the Main Board listing of ConvergeNet Holdings Limited, optimise the use of the company’s existing assets, harness the deal-making experience of the board of directors and Stellar Advisers (the dedicated investment manager) in a cost-effective manner, facilitate the introduction of strong new shareholders and establish a platform to facilitate further capital raising and the growth of the initial investment portfolio.

Moven

Series A in 2014
Moven focuses on enabling banks and non-bank partners to leverage the Moven platform to acquire, engage, retain, and grow their customer base. Moven's app, debit card, and contactless payment sticker provide real-time spending insights that motivate customers to make smarter decisions and save more. Moven Enterprise was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Kenmare Resources plc, together with its subsidiaries, produces mineral sands products in China, Italy, the United States, and internationally. The company operates the Moma Titanium Minerals Mine located on the northern coast of Mozambique. Its products include ilmenite, zircon, and rutile, as well as concentrates including secondary zircon and mineral sands concentrates. As of December 31, 2019, it had a total proved and probable ore reserves of 1,584 million tons. The company was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Planet42

Debt Financing in 2024
Planet42 is democratising mobility by enabling people ignored by banks to get access to a personal vehicle. The company leverages technology to mitigate risk and promote financial inclusion by buying second-hand cars from a network of motor dealers and providing them to customers on a subscription basis, without the need to physically see the car or meet the customer.

Grit

Post in 2022
Grit is listed on the London Stock Exchange main market (LSE: GR1T), the Johannesburg Stock Exchange main board (JSE: GTR) and the Stock Exchange of Mauritius Ltd official market (SEM: DEL.N0000). Grit Real Estate Income Group Limited is a leading pan-African real estate company focused on investing in and actively managing a diversified portfolio of assets in carefully selected African countries (excluding South Africa). By investing in real estate assets across Africa, the Company is building a secure financial future for schools, employees, non-profit organisations, and the like. As such, Grit is unlocking potential across the African continent in an effort to anchor communities and create sustainable jobs. The company’s high-quality assets are underpinned by predominantly US$ and Euro denominated long-term leases with a wide range of blue-chip multi-national tenant covenants across a diverse range of robust property sectors. The Company is committed to delivering strong and sustainable income for shareholders, with the potential for income and capital growth. The Company is targeting 8.5%+ p.a. dividend yield in USD and 12.0%+ p.a. NAV total return.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) is a public private partnership. It mobilises capital from public and private sources to lend to businesses creating, improving or expanding infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. They provide long-term debt on commercial terms to infrastructure projects in Africa, particularly in fragile states where conventional lenders are often averse to the risks involved. The Fund lends to infrastructure projects mainly owned, managed and operated by private sector businesses.