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DPI-led consortium to buy Solevo, a leading African distributor of specialty chemicals

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Marcyrl attracts new investment from DPI and Amethis

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DPI welcomes new partners in Kelix Bio

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DPI exits investment in leading Egyptian retailer, B.TECH

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DPI Announces Exit from International Facilities Services

DPI, BII, and EBRD Announce Exit from Kelix Bio

Reflections on 2023 and a look ahead to 2024

DPI backs Pan African Towers

DPI Launches 2022 Impact Report

Kazyon attracts $165m investment from DPI-led consortium

DPI-led consortium acquires Solevo

Marcyrl attracts new investment from DPI & Amethis

Ukheshe announces investment from DPI & Fireball Capital

DPI welcomes new partners in Kelix Bio

DPI exits investment in leading Egyptian retailer B.TECH

DPI: Impact & ESG

Invest profitably and help save the world

Our Approach to Value-Add

A premier African investment firm

We are among Africa’s leading international investment and private equity institutions. We believe that partnership with our investee company management teams, along with our investors is key to our success. Our focus is to continue delivering skillsets to our companies to help them grow, while delivering top quartile* returns to investors through our disciplined, process-led approach.

Our Firm

2007

DPI founded

3.1

DPI AUM including co-investments

65000

employed by portfolio companies

DPI was founded in 2007 on the vision of building a premier investment firm with excellence at its core. We wanted to back exceptional businesses to allow African entrepreneurs and CEOs to achieve their ambitions, while striving to deliver top-quartile returns and positive impact for Africa.

Runa Alam

Co-founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer

Our Business

DPI is more than just an investment partner. We work closely with CEOs, management teams and entrepreneurs across Africa, developing long-term relationships to deliver impactful projects together.

We take an integrated approach to all investments, with our deal, operational and portfolio management teams, working closely together, combining their expertise to deliver positive outcomes. We partner with our investors to understand their needs. We deliver excellent reporting and ultimately strive to deliver top quartile returns.

Our Business

Impact & ESG

We work to deliver competitive commercial returns while realising the highest standards of Impact and Environmental, Social and Governance work.

Impact and ESG

Our Portfolio

We invest in exceptional and innovative, industry leaders across the continent, led by excellent and experienced management teams. Throughout our portfolio of companies, digitisation is a theme and we help how companies to do this quickly and to the highest standards.

Our Portfolio

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