Investors in Madagascar

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.

Axian Group, founded 150 years ago, is a family office based in Madagascar that works towards the social and economic development of the emerging economies. The family office unit analyses opportunities in Emerging Markets as a natural diversification from the groups core operations.

Founded in 2002, Adenia Partners is a Mauritius-headquartered private equity firm that focuses on mid-market investments in agribusiness, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, consumer goods and technology companies across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sand Hill Angels is a Silicon Valley based venture group that invests in private companies at all stages and favors investments in the Internet, Information Technology, and Life Sciences. They are an early stage venture and mentor capital firm.

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.

LBO France is private equity firms in France. They offer exceptional coverage of the French market, with four interlocking areas of expertise: middle market buyouts (the White Knight funds), small cap buyouts (the Hexagone funds), real estate (the White Stone and Lapillus funds) and secondary debt (the Altercap funds). This breadth of specialist knowledge makes us a private equity leader in France – the second-largest economy in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world. With seasoned and diversified teams, a well-established position and in-depth knowledge of the French economy, LBO France offers management and investors of portfolio companies a wealth of experience and opportunities that spur value creation.. Their strategy of diversification and growth has enabled us to achieve a critical mass that allows us to devote substantial financial and human resources to continuously improve the services they provide to their portfolio companies and investors.

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

Founded in 2011, Comcast Ventures is an asset manager based in the United States. The firm makes investments in start-up companies.

BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions. The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries, medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors. BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia. Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based in seven offices. AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe. Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region. Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.