Investors in Ghana

Founded in 1948, CDC Group is a Development Finance Institution and is wholly owned by the UK government. CDC's mission is to support the building of businesses throughout Africa and South Asia, to create jobs and to make a lasting difference in the lives of people who live in some of the world's poorest areas.

Investisseurs & Partenaires is a family of impact funds fully-dedicated to the African continent. Created in 2002 by Patrice Hoppenot and directed by Jean-Michel Severino since 2011, I&P is a pioneer in the impact investing sector in Africa. With €75 million under management, I&P has invested in almost 60 small and medium-size companies across 15 countries. I&P brings long-term financing as well as strategic, managerial and technical support to its investees. I&P is the advisor of an impact team, managing a EUR 65 million fund dedicated to access to electricity in Africa. As an impact investor, I&P strives to maximise the economic, social and environmental impacts of its partners and aims to actively contribute to the African development. I&P’s team consists of 30 people based in Paris and in 7 African offices, and in 3 African investment funds.

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, and financial technologies. Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

A leading impact asset manager with a 17-year track record, responsAbility manages USD 3.5 bn of assets invested in 450 ESG-managed high-impact companies across 90 emerging economies. Since the company's inception in 2003, responsAbility-managed funds have invested over USD 10 bn in private debt and private equity to companies in the sectors of climate finance, sustainable food and financial inclusion whose business models directly support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). responsAbility is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and has local offices in Bangkok, Geneva, Hong Kong, Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris and Tbilisi. Owned by various reputable Swiss and international financial institutions, private investors and its own employees, responsAbility is registered with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.

MEST Incubator is a venture capital arm of Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology specializing in incubation, seed, early stage, and startups. The firm seeks to invest in software startups with a focus on SaaS, consumer internet, ecommerce, digital media, and healthcare information technology. The firm seeks to invest in Sub Saharan Africa with a focus on Ghana. The firm prefers to invest in graduate companies of the incubation training program. It typically invests between $0.03 million and $0.2 million in exchange for a minority equity stake, usually less than 30 percent, in the companies. MEST Incubator was founded in 2010 and is based in Accra, Ghana.

MTN is a JSE-listed multinational company that offers voice and data, mobile financial, enterprise, and digital services. It serves individuals as well as SME, public sector, and corporate clients. The company’s traditional voice and data offerings include voice bundles, data bundles, bonus on recharge, and low-denomination recharge vouchers. Its mobile money product range includes international remittances, savings, lending, and insurance. MTN’s enterprise services are focused on connectivity, communication, cloud, M2M, and enterprise mobility. Through its investments with Rocket Internet AG in Africa Internet Holdings (AIH) and Middle East Internet Holdings (MEIH), MTN aims to to deliver a range of internet services in African continent and in the Middle East, including e-commerce retailing, market place, taxi, travel, classified, and food delivery services. MTN has launched, as part of its entertainment strategy, a host of products and services, including MTN FrontRow: a video-on-demand offering, and MTN Music+: a music streaming and downloading app which aims to promote African music. MTN was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company has operations in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia. It has ISP licenses in Namibia and Kenya and a Value Added Service license in Ethiopia.

Macquarie Group is an independent asset management institution and investment bank that manages specialist funds, owning assets in infrastructure, real estate, private equity and development capital. It is based in Sydney, Australia and was founded in 1969.

Founded in 1973, Nedbank Group is a financial service provider based in South Africa. The firm offers personal banking solutions that includes savings deposits and investment accounts.

Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

Blue Haven Initiative is a family office. It is a private equity and venture capital specializing in investments in early venture, equity, real assets, hedge funds, fixed income, debt, and hybrid structures. The firm primarily invests in innovative businesses and sectors such as green real estate, renewable energy, financial services, fintech, waste management, agriculture, and life sciences. It invests globally. The firm invests minimum $0.5 million. The firm invests in publicly equity, fixed income markets and traditional asset classes through third-party investment managers. Blue Haven Initiative was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.