This investment was made under a previous strategy. We disclose information on all our current investments, but narrative information on our pre-2012 investments, when we introduced a new strategy, may be limited.
Key facts
- Status:
- Active
- Region
:
Since 2012, we’ve only invested in Africa and South Asia. Investments outside these regions are from our pre-2012 portfolio.
- Africa
- Sector
:
We have seven priority sectors. However, we continue to invest outside these sectors, largely in the most challenging regions, as new investment supporting any sector helps to underpin the private sector, and create jobs and livelihoods for people. For funds, the sectors listed here are those the fund has invested in so far.
- Business services, Communications and IT Services, Financial services, Infrastructure, Other consumer services, Others
- Investment type
:
We provide capital in three broad ways: direct equity, debt, and intermediated equity (principally through investment funds).
- Intermediated investment
- Fund manager:
- Helios Investment Partners
- Start date
:
For direct investments, this is the date CDC committed capital to the business or project.
For funds, this is the date that CDC committed capital to the fund.
For underlying fund investments, this is the date that the fund invested capital into the business.e
- November 2009
- Amount
:
For direct investments, this is the total amount that CDC has committed to the business or project (it may be a combination of equity and debt).
For funds, this is the total amount that CDC has committed to the fund.
- $75m
- Domicile
:
This is the investee company’s place of incorporation; or a fund’s jurisdiction.
- Mauritius
Investments made by this fund
- Active
- Exited
| Investment name | Country | Region | Sector | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Helios Towers PLC (formerly Helios Towers Africa)
Helios Towers Africa Limited is a holding company under which sit country-specific operating companies that buy, build and maintain telecommunications towers and lease space on those towers to wireless telecommunications services providers across Africa. |
Ghana | Africa, West Africa | Infrastructure | February 2010 | Active |
|
Interswitch Limited
Interswitch specialises in an electronic switching and domestic debit card scheme. |
Nigeria | Africa, West Africa | Financial services | January 2011 | Active |
|
Vivo Energy
Vivo Energy is one of Africa’s leading downstream businesses, supported by a sizeable and strategically located logistics infrastructure. The business specialises in fuels and lubricants, but provides other downstream services. |
Africa | Business services | March 2011 | Active | |
|
Mall for Africa Ltd
Mall for Africa is an online marketplace that has developed a patent-pending app enabling shoppers in Africa to shop e-commerce sites in the US and the UK wherever they may be. |
Nigeria | Africa, West Africa | Other consumer services | July 2013 | Active |
|
Prime Oil & Gas B.V. (formerly Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V.)
Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V. is a holding company for a portfolio of African assets owned by Petrobras, the Brazilian oil major. POGBV s assets include 2 offshore producing fields in Nigeria, and a development asset with its first oil due in 2018. |
Africa | Others | July 2013 | Active | |
|
Bayport Management
Bayport Management is a leading provider of unsecured credit and financial solutions to the formally employed large markets in Africa, including Zambia, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique and Latin America. |
Africa | Financial services | December 2013 | Active | |
|
Africa Oil Corp (formerly Impact Oil & Gas)
Impact Oil & Gas is a pure-play Africa oil and gas exploration company working in deep-water locations in Africa. The exploration portfolio currently includes licenses in South Africa, Guinea Bissau, Namibia and Gabon. |
South Africa | Africa, Southern Africa | Others | July 2014 | Active |
|
Wananchi Group Holdings
Wananchi Group is an East African telecommunications company that offers a combination of cable television and internet services to residential and corporate customers in Kenya and Tanzania. |
Kenya | Africa, East Africa | Communications and IT Services | October 2014 | Active |
