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🎤 We are pleased that David Moore, Director, Private Equity Partnerships at Blue Earth Capital, will be speaking at the AVCA Sustainable Investing in Africa Summit in London next Thursday, 16 October.   Organized by AVCA - The African Private Capital Association, the summit provides a platform to discuss the role of private capital in advancing sustainable development across the continent. Now in its fourth year, the summit explores emerging trends, evolving ESG practices, and innovative approaches under the theme “The Capital Imperative: Turning Intent into Action”.   David will be part of the panel “Turning Intent into Action: Africa’s Sustainable Investment Journey” at 16:25 (BST). Together with the other panelists, he will discuss how fund managers are embedding sustainability into core strategies, what an enabling environment looks like, and how regulators, investors, and society can work together to drive impact. The conversation will cover topics such as how secondaries can be designed to combine liquidity for LPs with tangible impact, how they can be used to broaden private capital markets across Africa, and what lessons from recent transactions reveal about deepening these markets and attracting new classes of investors.   We look forward to an engaging discussion. If you are attending the summit and would like to connect with David, please feel free to reach out to him.   #AVCASummit2025 #impactinvesting #unsdgs #privatemarkets #makingaworldofdifference #totalimpact

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"Africans must fund Africa." That’s Fadilah Tchoumba, CEO of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), making the case for why robust domestic investment ecosystems are essential for the continent’s future. "Local capital is key to building resilience and ensuring that wealth created through innovation fuels the continent," she adds. Over the last decade, ABAN has built a formidable movement with impressive results: • A community of 5,000+ angel investors organized in ~80 networks across 35+ African countries • $35 million mobilized in early-stage investments that laid the foundation for larger VC funding • 200+ women angel investors activated across seven female-led networks • Support for iconic African startups that later attracted global investment "There would not be a Flutterwave or Paystack or Affinity Africa without the participation and contribution of African business angels from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt," Tchoumba emphasizes. "Africans across the continent have been the driving force towards attracting the global capital we’ve received on the continent... Africans operating within Africa are the only instrument that can set that base." "[We] must commit the first and initial capital to build traction and make it viable for VCs and other funders to come on board. If it’s not driven from the inside, outsiders can’t participate." ABAN puts this into practice with initiatives like the Catalytic Africa matching fund that doubled investor commitments and mobilized $2.5 million from 200 business angels in just 12 months. ABAN has also created practical infrastructure for cross-border investing. Their Rwanda-based facility lets investors keep funds in hard currency while backing companies continent-wide. This proved crucial when global VC funding disappeared overnight during the recent market downturn — local networks kept deals flowing while foreign capital fled. ABAN’s various initiatives are building toward something bigger: "The next decade is about African Business Angels becoming market-makers, not just funders," Tchoumba says. "By leveraging local knowledge and networks, African investors can de-risk frontier sectors like AI or health-tech where global capital remains cautious... ABAN’s role is to keep equipping investors to seize these opportunities because ultimately, Africa must fund Africa." What’s your take? ✦ Is focusing on angels operating on the ground the key to building truly sustainable innovation ecosystems across Africa? ✦ What role should governments play in creating incentives for local capital participation? ✦ How might diaspora investors better collaborate with local investors & angel networks to increase investment flows? ✨ Read the full, multimedia version of this post on Afridigest.com ➜ http://bit.ly/4pDuNmn —— 🚨 Afridigest is building the most valuable platform for entrepreneurs in #Africa, starting with ideas, analysis, & insights. Subscribe today: afridigest.com/subscribe

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🌍 Africa holds $1 TRILLION in investable green industrial infrastructure — and GreenAlpha makes it bankable. 💡 To scale, we must stop trying to make investment developmental — and Make Development Investable. 🔑 The world cannot meet climate goals without Africa and institutional capital at scale. GreenAlpha is how we deliver. 🌍ACS2 At the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa, we launched the From Green Growth to Green Alpha Briefing Report — aligning sovereigns, institutional investors, development partners, and NDCs around a fiduciary-grade asset allocation model that makes development investable at speed and scale. 💡 GreenAlpha = the AU 5% Agenda’s Institutional Investor–Public Partnership (IIPP) model — turning Africa’s NDCs-aligned green industrial infrastructure into a globally competitive asset class that is transformative, not extractive: ✅ Lower cost of capital ✅ Jobs, GDP growth, FX diversification ✅ Paris- & Basel-aligned ESG integrity ✅ 14–22% IRR 🌐 GreenAlpha scales private capital mobilisation (PCM) for the Nairobi Declaration — Africa’s Green Investment Deal and the ACS2 Addis Declaration, leveraging: 🏛️ Multilateral Initiatives 1️⃣ G20 Green Industrialization Goals 2️⃣ COP30 Belém Roadmap — $1.3T pathways 3️⃣ G7 PCM green infrastructure Initiative 4️⃣ UN FfD4 Seville (2025) — $4T resilience gap 5️⃣ EU Global Gateway — €300B by 2027 6️⃣ BRICS Sustainable Finance — $250B+ flows ✍️ Bilateral Partnerships 1️⃣ Etihad 7 & ALTÉRRA — $4.5B for clean energy access, leveraging a $30B fund 2️⃣ FOCAC 9 / China–Africa Green Development Initiative — $50B incl. 30 clean-energy projects by 2027 3️⃣ Saudi Arabia & SFD — $50B for adaptation & resilient infrastructure 4️⃣ Japan–Africa TICAD — $30B+ for green industrial growth 🚀 Once scaled, GreenAlpha can — within 10 years — make Africa the world’s multi-trillion-dollar green industrial investment engine — exporting innovation, IP, and value chains across Africa and to the world. That is how we make development investable. 💬 We invite sovereigns, institutional investors, development partners, and consultants to join the GreenAlpha initiative. 📄 Request your copy of the From Green Growth to Green Alpha Briefing Report in the comments.

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🟢 SIFEM is investing in the Alterra Africa Accelerator Fund I to support Africa’s next generation of entrepreneurs. The fund targets early-stage companies, especially women-led, climate-smart, and job-creating ventures, helping them scale and attract growth capital. 🔗 Read more about our investment: https://lnkd.in/eegYh3pA #DevelopmentFinance #ImpactInvesting #ClimateFinance #2XChallenge #EmergingMarkets Alterra Capital Partners

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As private equity and venture capital continue to play a vital role in fueling business growth and innovation in East Africa, the conversation around successful exits is becoming increasingly critical.   In the inaugural issue of the East Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) Africa Private Capital Policy Monitor, David Lekerai, Partner, and Head of the Corporate Practice at DLA Piper Africa, Kenya (IKM Advocates), offers a timely and strategic perspective on this topic. His article, "Exploring Exit Options in East Africa’s Private Capital Space Beyond the Traditional Exit Options," examines the limitations of conventional exit routes such as trade sales, secondary sales, and IPOs, particularly in a region where market liquidity and listing complexity remain significant barriers. David introduces alternative mechanisms, including share buybacks, redemption of shares, and listing through the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (GEMS), offering more flexible and accessible pathways for investors seeking liquidity.   This contribution is a valuable resource for stakeholders looking to navigate the next phase of growth in East Africa’s private equity and venture capital space.   Read David’s full article here on page 14: https://lnkd.in/dvrYWmcH

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