Aloe Private Equity is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2003 and based in Paris, with additional offices in Mumbai, Beijing, Mauritius, Singapore and Reading. The firm specializes in growth capital, late-stage investments and buyouts in small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe and Asia, with a focus on environment-friendly technologies, energy, cleantech, waste management, recycling, water, and related industries. Typical investments range from €2 million to €20 million and are often majority stakes in companies with revenues up to about €100 million. The sectors include business-to-business services, technology, and ag-tech, and the management team comprises serial entrepreneurs with experience across environment, energy, software, IT, retail, and media. Aloe aims to back companies that advance sustainable economic and environmental outcomes.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on sustainable energy and environmental technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2007, the firm targets growth-oriented opportunities across clean energy, energy efficiency, water treatment, waste management, sustainable agriculture, and related infrastructure. It provides equity capital across multiple stages, often acting as a lead investor and taking board seats in portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes both financial returns and measurable development outcomes, and it generally targets markets in Southern Africa with broader engagement across Africa. In addition to capital deployment, Inspired Evolution offers advisory services to support growth and sustainability strategies. The firm operates offices in Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and London, enabling cross-border collaboration and sourcing opportunities.

Compass Venture Capital is a Mauritius-based venture capital firm that serves as the corporate venture arm of ENL Group. It invests in startups and small and mid-sized enterprises with scalable business models across Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region, and the African continent. The firm typically takes minority stakes, often in the range of 15% to 40%, and concentrates on sectors such as renewable energy, education, health, and technology. As part of ENL Group’s ecosystem, Compass collaborates with the Turbine incubator to support early-stage companies and help build a vibrant start-up environment in Mauritius and the broader region.

Ce-IV is a venture capital investment firm established in 2022 and headquartered in Mauritius. The company focuses on seed-stage investments, targeting African entrepreneurs who are developing digitally native businesses both within Africa and in the diaspora. Ce-IV has a particular emphasis on supporting women-led companies, especially those operating in the artificial intelligence and machine learning sectors. By applying a well-defined set of investment criteria, Ce-IV aims to provide certainty in its venture investments while fostering innovation and growth in the African market.

Gullit is a venture capital firm based in Cybercity, Mauritius, that backs and advises early-stage technology companies. It focuses on scalable startups in Africa across fintech, logistics, health tech, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence, providing funding and strategic support for seed and pre-seed rounds, debt acquisition, and restructuring.

Unitus Ventures is a Bangalore-based venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage startups in India, spanning healthcare, education, fintech, consumer services, software, and other technology-driven sectors with potential for broad impact. The firm provides strategic guidance and access to networks to help portfolio companies scale, and it operates as part of Capria Network. In 2023 it was acquired by Capria Ventures, aligning it with Capria’s global platform for supporting emerging-market entrepreneurs.

Injaro Investments Limited is a venture capital firm established in 2009 and headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, with additional offices in Accra, Ghana, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The firm specializes in seed and startup investments, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises within the agricultural value chain in West Africa. Injaro Investments seeks to provide support through various investment forms, including debt, quasi-equity, and equity, to enhance the operations of companies involved in agriculture. This encompasses a wide range of activities from input suppliers to farmers and ultimately to consumers, aiming to strengthen the agricultural sector in designated countries across the region.

FEI OGEF is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and located in Port Louis, Mauritius. The firm focuses on providing local currency financing solutions to companies that deliver affordable solar energy to off-grid communities in the region. By investing primarily in the energy and technology sectors, FEI OGEF aims to address the challenges of energy access while promoting sustainable development through innovative financing models.

Maris Capital is an investment holding company based in Grand Baie, Mauritius. It focuses on investing in early-stage and startup SMEs across Africa, with portfolio interests in property services, business services, mining, and agriculture and forestry. The firm aims to build scalable, cash-generative businesses through active management, community engagement, and ESG risk oversight, pursuing sustainable, long-term growth in the African market.

Frontline Strategy is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on growth capital and strategic support for businesses, primarily in India. Founded in 2000 and based in Mauritius with offices in Mumbai and Singapore, the firm backs early-stage, turnaround, middle-market and emerging-growth opportunities, often through equity or equity-linked structures and with a tendency to gain board representation. It targets investments in non-cyclical sectors and in industry consolidation, with activity across India, the United States, Singapore and ASEAN markets, including Indonesia. The portfolio spans energy, manufacturing, information technology, services, consumer durables and apparels, telecom, life sciences and healthcare, among others, as part of a broad strategy to help growth-oriented companies scale.

ShEquity is an impact investment firm established in 2020 and based in Ebene, Mauritius. The firm focuses on providing smart and sustainable investments specifically for female entrepreneurs and innovators across Africa. ShEquity aims to support female-led startups that deliver significant social impact, favoring investments in sectors such as technology-enabled solutions, renewable energy, fast-moving consumer goods, digitalization, fintech, hospitality, the service industry, agriculture, and healthcare. Through its strategic investments, ShEquity seeks to empower women in business and contribute to the growth of impactful enterprises on the continent.

47 Ventures is a Mauritius-based venture capital firm established in 2017 that funds technology-driven startups, primarily in Pakistan, across stages from seed to growth. It supports high-growth businesses leveraging technology for scale, across sectors such as information technology, AI and ML, cybersecurity, IoT, e-commerce, mobile, SaaS, robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, big data, biomedical engineering, life sciences, and other technology-enabled business products and services.

Helion Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, with offices in Gurgaon and Bangalore, India. Founded in 2006, the firm backs technology-powered businesses across early to late stages, with emphasis on software, TMT, e-commerce, consumer services, fintech, and other technology-enabled sectors. It primarily targets investments in India while maintaining a regional footprint that includes the United States and other markets. The firm has built a multi-fund platform to support its portfolio and engages actively with portfolio companies, including board participation and follow-on investments. Through its activities, Helion aims to accelerate growth for technology-driven startups by connecting capital with operational expertise and strategic networks.

Capaci.Tech is a Johannesburg-based venture capital firm and venture builder focused on Pan-African technology-enabled startups. It provides advisory and capacity-building in technology, marketing, and human resources to help startups scale, and makes investments in parallel with partner collaborations to turn ideas into viable businesses. The team comprises seasoned investors, experienced entrepreneurs, and professional advisers, and it follows a disciplined approach in which capital is deployed only when the required capabilities can be viably deployed. The firm supports startups across Africa, with notable investments such as GotBot.co.za.

Matrix Partners India Advisors is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on seed to growth investments across technology enabled sectors in India, with offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Port Louis, Mauritius, and operates as a subsidiary of Matrix Partners. It invests across fintech, software, SaaS, B2B, education and health technology, eCommerce, travel and logistics, consumer internet, and related areas, typically committing INR 1 crore to INR 75 crore and up to USD 30 million depending on the stage and opportunity.

WestBridge Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs in India and the United States across private and public markets, providing long-term capital and hands-on portfolio support to help companies scale. Founded in 2000 and based in San Mateo with offices in Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Mauritius, the firm leverages its deep market experience and global network to work alongside management on strategy, partnerships and governance, often taking board seats to foster durable, long-term growth. It targets a wide range of sectors, including consumer, e-commerce, edtech, software, fintech, healthtech, machine learning, artificial intelligence and SaaS, and pursues cross-border opportunities linking India and the US. WestBridge emphasizes patient partnering with founders, aiming to be involved at every stage of the journey and to act as a principal long-term partner rather than a short-term investor.

Swedfund is a government development finance institution based in Stockholm, with an office in Nairobi, established in 1979. It mobilizes capital and expertise for investments in private markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including direct investments and fund of funds activities. It finances a range of instruments, from equity to loans and other debt-like structures, and supports knowledge transfer and equipment upgrades, including depreciation loans to Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises. It pursues minority investments, typically in the range of 5 to 100 million SEK, with board seats and participation in investment committees, and aims for exits in five to ten years. It operates as a bilateral development financier within the European Development Finance Institutions network.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.

Prime Ventures is a European venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled companies. It provides capital, strategic guidance, and an active network to help portfolio firms become global category leaders. Founded in 1999, the firm is headquartered in Amsterdam and maintains offices in Cambridge and Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It invests in software, information technology, consumer internet, e-commerce, digital media, mobile computing, semiconductor and related sectors across Europe, with a regional emphasis on the Benelux, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Sweden and other Western European markets. Prime Ventures typically participates as a lead investor or co-investor, often takes a minority stake and a board seat, and engages in multiple financing rounds. Initial commitments commonly span several million euros, with follow-on rounds expanding to mid-market sizes, aligning with growth and expansion plans.

Blossom Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that backs technology companies across Europe and the United States, from seed and early stages to growth rounds. Founded in the late 2010s, the firm focuses on European founders building global businesses and has been involved with unicorns in the US and Europe. It prefers information technology investments and has interest in sectors such as cybersecurity, fintech and infrastructure. Blossom Capital typically makes multi-million dollar checks and seeks to partner with companies in both early and growth stages, supporting their international expansion. The firm operates from its London base and targets opportunities across Europe and the United States.

DST Global is a venture capital firm focusing on late-stage investments in the internet sector and related technology fields, including information technology, mobile, software and e-commerce. It pursues global opportunities and maintains offices in key markets such as Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta and Tom Stafford.

Saviu Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, established in 2018. It pursues minority investments across seed, early, and later stages in Africa, focusing on commercial products and services in sectors such as retail, e-commerce, fintech, and mobility.

The Fund for Export Development in Africa is an impact investment arm of the African Export-Import Bank that supplies equity, quasi-equity, and debt to bridge the multi‑billion‑dollar funding gap in Africa’s trade sector. It targets a broad range of sectors, including intra‑African trade, value‑added export development, manufacturing, financial services, technology, consumer and retail goods, transport and logistics, agribusiness, and supporting trade‑enabling infrastructure such as industrial parks. The fund seeks to transform the continent’s trade landscape by providing capital where it is most needed.

Siparex Group is a Lyon, France based private equity firm founded in 1977 that engages in multi-sector investments across software, commercial products, business services, manufacturing, e-commerce, life sciences, educational technology, robotics and drones, fintech and healthcare services, targeting transactions in France and Western Europe as well as the United States; the firm has grown into an independent, international investor over more than three decades, leveraging its regional roots and diverse sector focus to support growth and operational improvement in portfolio companies.

Premier African Minerals is a mining company active in Africa that explores, evaluates and develops mineral properties, focusing on tungsten, lithium and tantalum. It operates projects through RHA and RHA Mauritius for wolframite, and through Zulu and Zulu Mauritius for lithium and tantalite, supported by its head office.

Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi and San Francisco. It provides capital, operational experience and strategic support to entrepreneurs from seed through growth, helping them scale through multiple stages. Founded in San Francisco about 40 years ago, Partech currently manages €2.5 billion in assets and backs a portfolio of roughly 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents.

Crossfin Technology is a private equity investment firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, specializing in growth and expansion investments in information technology and financial services, with a strong focus on fintech solutions. The firm backs high-growth and cash-generative companies to enable scalable growth across Africa and beyond, offering blended exposure to technology investments in the financial sector. Through its portfolio approach, Crossfin Technology seeks opportunities at the intersection of technology and finance, leveraging its regional footprint to support expansion and long-term value creation for investee companies.

VenturEast is a Bangalore-based venture capital and asset management firm that backs technology, healthcare and life sciences companies from seed to growth stage across India. Founded in 1997, it seeks to partner with entrepreneurs pursuing disruptive ideas and supports early- through growth-stage funding as these businesses scale. The firm invests across sectors including information technology, communications, education, financial services, infrastructure and manufacturing, as well as digital health and clean environment initiatives, with a nationwide investment scope.

Goodwell Investments is an Amsterdam-headquartered impact investment firm that provides early through growth-stage equity and hands-on support to inclusive businesses serving the majority world. The firm targets financially sustainable, scalable ventures in Africa and India, with emphasis on sectors such as financial services, agriculture, mobility and transport, education, health, and basic services. It pursues minority stakes and partners with entrepreneurs to expand access, inclusion, and livelihoods in underserved communities while seeking solid financial returns. Goodwell operates from Amsterdam with additional offices in Cape Town and Nairobi, reflecting its regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and India. By combining capital with strategic guidance, it supports portfolio companies to scale and improve access to essential goods and services across emerging markets.

OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm based in New York, founded in 1989, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. It engages in private equity, venture capital, and growth investments across the global healthcare landscape, spanning biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences tools, medical devices, diagnostics, health care services, and digital health. The firm invests across the development spectrum, from startup ventures to mature companies, and pursues opportunities worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Israel and India, leveraging a long-standing specialization in the sector. Through its diversified capital programs, OrbiMed partners with management to advance innovative therapies, tools, and services that address significant medical needs.

Social Starts is a California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology, with a focus on Series A rounds. It seeks to back scientists and technologists worldwide from the earliest stages to advance health, prevent illness, and tailor care, leveraging advances in biotech, therapeutics, and AI-driven health insights.

Tano Capital is an alternative asset management firm focused on global hard assets and innovative investment opportunities in companies based in India and China. It concentrates on rapidly growing businesses that benefit from domestic consumption growth and seeks to deploy capital across markets where growth is driven by rising consumer demand. Established in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company based in Sweden that builds digital consumer businesses by partnering with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing companies in developed and emerging markets. The group seeks to deliver shareholder value while contributing positively to society through well-governed ventures and responsible governance. Founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families, Kinnevik concentrates on digital consumer platforms and related technologies across global markets.

Clearwater Capital Partners is an Asia-focused credit investment firm that joined Fiera Capital in 2018 to broaden access to Asia credit opportunities. The firm provides exposure to performing high-yield credit, direct lending, and special situations across onshore and offshore markets and multiple sectors and geographies, supported by an on-the-ground presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chongqing. Since inception, Clearwater has completed more than 350 Asia investments totaling over USD 8.1 billion, underlining its experience in building dedicated lending platforms in the region.