Activity Description: AfricInvest focuses on investments in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a turnover below € 15 million at investment stage, but not excluding companies of larger size with significant growth potential.

Africinvest's main targets are growth investments, buy-outs, privatization, seed and restructuring investments. The fund seeks to acquire significant minority stake in portfolio companies through equity and quasi-equity instruments which provide the appropriate degree of control or influence. AfricInvest also seeks to acquire majority positions or to have the ability to take controlling positions in portfolio companies, based on its ability to attract and retain strong and talented management teams.

AfricInvest’s unique positioning is based on:

- its focus on SMEs, which are the backbone of economic development in Africa;
- its ability to act locally, with the required proximity to the targeted market and portfolio companies;
- its ability to capitalise on cross-regional synergies.