Venture Capital

WHY INVEST WITH US?

For investors looking for ways to invest their money, whether in established businesses or startups, the Anfani network offers a wide range of opportunities to meet your needs.You can find investment opportunities across a wide range of market sectors, from technology and fintech companies to digital media and real estate.We connect African entrepreneurs and investors around the world. So whether you are based in Africa, Europe, Asia, America or further aield, you can find a company or business partner that suits you.

Why Investing in Africa?

Recent years have shown a relatively stable and sustainable African capital investment market. Africa today represents around 7% of the amounts invested in emerging countries (Asia representing 70% of these amounts). The rate of investment on the continent today is around $2.5 billion per year since 2013. In 2023, a total of $3.5 billion was raised through 547 transactions. Africa needs a lot more private equity (PE). Certainly, it is progressing, but the outstanding amounts remain modest overall. Furthermore, private equity remains concentrated in English-speaking countries. Together, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya host 60% of the investment funds identified in the African continent.

“Catching up” is necessary for French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries.

The African diaspora and development institutions must benefit from this embolism. Anfani Capital VC aims to bring together these players in order to invest in the best projects, in terms of profitability and impact, with a focus on the French-speaking sub-Saharan zone.

The African context is favorable for the take-off of the Private Equity. Because three necessary conditions are met:

1. Savings are abundant in Africa, whether formal or informal. The key is, via the right financial products and appropriate taxation, to attract them towards financing the development of SMEs and towards investment essential for more inclusive growth, whether public (specific role of infrastructure funds) or private investments.
2. Technology is at the cutting edge. In many aspects, Africa has join the world on the “technological frontier” which summarizes the state of the most advanced knowledge. In terms of fintechs, platforms for financing operations, payment systems and means, Africa has no complexes about other continents.
3. Talent, because, as is often said, a financial center is also a payroll, making it possible to attract and retain the best financial professionals in a context where the market for such talent is now global.

For development at 5% growth per year on average, sustainable from an energy and climate point of view and more inclusive (leaving as few people as possible outside), Africa must be able to count on the Private Equity. Because the financial markets are still emerging, even for the most active, because banks are necessarily constrained by new regulations (depending on the country, Baule II or Baule III) and will become more selective towards SMEs. Hence the importance of equity financing of unlisted companies via funds.