Surya Capital

Surya Capital is a principal investment firm focused on high growth markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (“SSA”) primarily East Africa and & Ethiopia (“Greater East Africa” or “GEA”). Not being structured as a private equity fund, we bring patient and flexible financial capital to businesses. We combine financial capital with operational expertise by also sourcing operating partners and strategic investors who have operated in our sectors of focus in other markets. Surya Capital’s management team harnesses several decades of private equity investment and business building experience to partner with entrepreneurs in refining their strategies, enhancing their competitive advantage, executing growth and expansion plans, assisting with new financing and deepening their organization’s execution capabilities. Our flexible model allows us to look at greenfield, growth and control transactions, tailoring our investment proposal to the specifics of each investment opportunity. In everything we do, we insist on private equity best practice, best-in-class governance, and win-win partnership with local communities and stakeholders.