Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available.
Africa’s own private capital is largely bypassing its widest industrial gaps: manufacturing and agro-processing. Though the continent closed 2025 as the only region globally to record growth in private capital deal volume, up 8%, private capital directed to agro-processing came “under pressure”, according to AVCA, as funds flowed mainly to fintech and IT. Some PE funds such as Amethis Fund III, SPE PEF III and Phatisa Food Fund 3 have manufacturing and agro-processing in their remit, but they operate in a fundraising landscape deeply anchored by DFIs where patient capital is scarce. What can lure local & international private investors – put off by slow returns, currency volatility and uncertain exit strategies – to commit serious long-term capital to Africa’s industrial transformation?
Key points:
- How to design “industrialisation-focused” PE funds to lure a slice of Africa’s $775bn pension and insurance pool as anchor LP investors
- DFIs contributed 64% of fundraising in 2025. When does their capital enable private equity and when does it replace it?
- With IPOs at just 5% of exits, what pathways could make long-horizon industrial investments attractive to private investors?