Investors in Togo

The Crescent Group ("Crescent") is a leading emerging markets investment management firm primarily focused on the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. Crescent believes that wealth in the next ten to twenty years will be created in Asia, both in East Asia and through the Indian Ocean, and so Crescent has located offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Chengdu and Jeddah to give the Company a physical footprint to support its activities across this area. Crescent operates under the Crescent Point, Crescent Special Situations, Crescent Hill, and Crescent HydePark trade names depending on business line and geography.

ZhenFund (Chinese: 真格基金) is a seed stage focused venture fund with over $1 billion under management since founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang, in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Bob and Victor previously co-founded New Oriental (NYSE: EDU), one of the world's largest education conglomerates. Three of Bob's seed investments have IPOed in NYC: Shiji Jiayuan (Nasdaq: DATE) (世纪佳缘, website), LightInTheBox (Nasdaq: LITB) (website), and Jumei (NYSE: JMEI) (聚美, website). Bob was named to the Midas List four years in a row (2016-2019) and was last ranked at #11. ZhenFund currently dominates China’s early stage venture capital scene, and is rapidly expanding its U.S. practice based in Palo Alto, CA. Its portfolio has over 750 high-growth companies, including 17zuoye, OFO, VIPKID, RED, Hero Entertainment, and Urwork. ZhenFund’s mission is to support, educate, and inspire the next generation of global entrepreneurs.

African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It offers loans, lines of credit, agency lines, guarantees, risk management products, trade finance program, treasury services, and equity and quasi-equity products; and funding for development projects and programs, as well as technical assistance for studies and capacity-building. The company also provides concessional loans for public and private sectors. African Development Bank was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

SIG's China venture capital and private equity activities are operated through SIG Asia Investments, LLLP (SAI) and its wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) based in Shanghai with a branch office in Beijing. The SIG China team seeks to commit the firm’s capital to venture capital and private equity investments in China. SAI is a member of the Susquehanna International Group of companies (SIG), which has evolved over the past 20+years into a leading financial institution focusing on trading and market making, institutional sales and research, private equity, and venture capital. With more than 1,400 employees across offices worldwide, SIG’s professionals develop ideas in an entrepreneurial environment, taking full advantage of SIG’s cutting edge technology and quantitative research. SIG is committed to expanding its global businesses in China. As part of that effort SAI has been mandated to commit SIG's proprietary capital in VC and PE investments in companies operating in the PRC.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union. The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds; equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds. The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises. EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors. European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Cauris Management is the first subregional private equity fund management structure created in Francophone West Africa. Operational since 1996, Cauris Management invests in companies with strong potential for growth and profitability. We are based in Lomé and Abidjan, which ensures us a close proximity with the regional private sector.

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.

Amethis is an investment fund manager dedicated to the African continent, with an investment capacity exceeding €725m. Amethis brings growth capital to promising midcap champions in a diversity of sectors throughout the African continent.As an active shareholder, Amethis offers key support and expertise through its international network, its opportunities of external growth and its value-added governance.

Founded in 2000, Mangrove Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-headquartered private equity firm with offices in Berlin and Tel Aviv. The firm targets early-stage investments in technology companies.

Ventech is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in startup companies. It has a broad investment scope with the capacity to invest in B2B and in B2C, in software and in hardware, with an industry agnostic approach. The firm's primary geographical focuses are, for the European fund, France, DACH region and the Nordics, with offices in Paris, Munich and Helsinki. Ventech China invests in Asia with an office in Shanghai.