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Ukheshe announces investment from DPI and Fireball Capital

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DPI exits investment in leading Egyptian retailer, B.TECH

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Catalysing high-growth African businesses to deliver impact

We seek to deploy global capital and expertise to unlock the full potential of the continent’s high-growth and impactful companies

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WEF: There is a way to invest profitably – and help save the world

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DPI Insight: Our Approach to Value-Add

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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.

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2007

DPI founded

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$

2.8

bn

DPI AUM including co-investments

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49,000

employed by portfolio companies

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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.

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Impact & ESG

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

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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.

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Ukheshe announces investment from DPI and Fireball Capital
DPI in the newsPress Releases | 07 Dec 2022
DPI welcomes new partners in Kelix Bio as part of $200m second funding round
Press Releases | 17 Oct 2022
DPI Exits Investment in Leading Egyptian Retailer B.TECH
Press Releases | 03 Oct 2022
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