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African Development Partners Funds

Our ADP Funds strategy focuses on a diversified and pan-African portfolio of private equity investments in established and growing companies, with an emphasis on those benefiting from Africa’s growing consumer class.

ADP Investment strategy

We invest in and partner with exceptional African companies to build a diversified portfolio of scalable high-growth businesses providing goods and services to Africa’s middle class and mass market. These are companies benefitting from Africa’s rapid urbanisation, favourable demographics and increasing adoption of technology.

We Target

Pan-African

We assess macro trends across the continent to create an attractively diversified portfolio

Middle-class growth

We target industries that specifically benefit from the growth of the African consumer

Established businesses

We invest in profitable or cash flow positive companies that are poised for growth

Unique opportunities

In our investments we consider proprietary and strategic opportunities

Exit potential

From when we first consider investing, we target companies with attractive exit opportunities and work from Day 1 towards the right exit

$

2

bn

funds under management

$

400

mn

ADP I (2008 vintage)

$

891

mn

ADP III (latest fund)

3

funds

$

3.1

bn

DPI AUM including co-investment

$

725

mn

ADP II (2013 vintage)

$

1.1

bn

ADP III AUM including co-investment

32

Investments since inception

Sectors and Industries

Our ADP Funds strategy focuses on building a diversified and pan-African portfolio of private equity investments in established and growing companies, with an emphasis on those benefiting from Africa’s growing consumer class. 

DPI seeks to be a best-in-class investment partner, working alongside management teams to drive sustainable growth and impact to ultimately generate strong returns for its investors. 

 

Our expertise

DPI believes that its greatest assets are its strong and stable team, institutional processes, and culture.  

The team has deep roots in the continent, speaks a wide range of African and international business languages, and has a long-standing network of contacts that gives DPI an advantage when sourcing, executing, managing, and exiting investments in all regions of the continent. 

Combining the team’s global expertise with our local boutique approach to working with companies on the ground has allowed us to deliver consistent, long-term value and evolve our firm to where it is today.

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