Our rigorous, analytical, and disciplined investment approach enables us to take advantage of innovation and secular trends to achieve long-term growth.
We are among Africa’s leading private investment firms. We combine specialist African investment expertise, deep local knowledge and networks, and best-in-class partnerships to support companies through strategic, operational and digital transformation. Our focus is to deliver skillsets to our companies to help them grow through our disciplined, process-led approach.
Our greatest assets are our strong and stable team, institutional processes, and culture. We work hand-in-hand with exciting, high growth and innovative companies across Africa to create value and drive positive impact. Underpinned by a culture of excellence and collegiality, we invest with a sustainable, long-term view.
DPI is headquartered in London and is FCA and SEC registered.
Our purpose and values
We invest in people and companies to deliver competitive commercial returns for investors, while ensuring our work leaves a lasting and positive social, economic and environmental impact on the communities in which we operate. We do this by remaining rooted in our core values:
We do the right thing – consistently, transparently, and with accountability for our decisions and outcomes. We act with honesty and responsibility towards each other, our investors, and our stakeholders, upholding the highest ethical and professional standards across the markets in which we operate.
We communicate openly, candidly and early. We have an obligation to speak up, surface challenges proactively, welcome constructive challenge, and prioritise clarity over comfort to build lasting trust with investors, portfolio companies and colleagues.
We pursue excellence across investments, portfolio stewardship, and Firm building. We hold ourselves accountable for outcomes and for delivering the best possible results, maintaining global best-in-class standards while remaining entrepreneurial, innovative, disciplined, and committed to continuous improvement.
We foster a culture of respect, humility, kindness and inclusion where people feel supported and heard. We believe the diversity of our team makes us stronger. Strong relationships underpin strong performance – we listen, care, and succeed together as one team, one family. We win together, lose together, and always have each other’s backs.
We believe in doing good – changing and improving people’s lives through responsible investing. We invest with purpose, recognising that our capital shapes businesses, communities, and economies. We seek sustainable value creation that delivers strong financial returns while generating meaningful, lasting positive impact.
We build enduring relationships based on alignment, trust, and shared success. We act as committed partners to our investors, portfolio companies, communities, and in our Firm – prioritising collective outcomes over individual interests.
DPI in numbers
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Our investors
DPI’s diverse Limited Partner base comprises a broad range of the world’s leading investors, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, fund of funds, impact investors, family offices and development finance institutions across the US, Europe, Asia Middle East and Africa.