Growing businesses. Building African communities. Driving gender diversity.
Alitheia IDF is a pioneering gender-lens fund investing in scalable businesses to leverage the power of gender diversity as a factor for superior performance
About
Alitheia IDF is a $100 million private equity fund that drives growth in African SMEs by leveraging gender-balanced businesses to generate high financial returns and social impact.
A Pioneering Private Equity Fund
The first dedicated gender lens investing fund in Africa, Alitheia IDF is a pioneering private equity fund that identifies, invests in, and grows SMEs led by gender-diverse teams to achieve solid financial returns and tangible social impact for communities in Africa.
From our offices in Lagos and Johannesburg, we invest in six countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho.
We invest in sectors that engage a significant percentage of women, either as entrepreneurs, producers, distributors or consumers. Some of these sectors are: Agribusiness, Consumer Goods, Health, Education, Creative Industries, and Financial and Business services.Final Close Founders
Introducing our first few investments
Women at the Centre
and all around
Meet our Founding Partners and some of the businesses we support
Impact
Impact is achieved by inclusion of women as economic participants contributing to wealth creation and social development
Portfolio
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SKLD
Woman-owned consumer goods company that manufactures, sources and distributes education supplies and humanitarian/relief products.
Reelfruit
Woman-owned food and beverage/ agro-processing company that produces a range of retail packaged snacks.
Jetstream
Woman-owned digital Freight Forwarding company that provides a relatively frictionless cross-border trading experience
Chika's Foods
A food and beverage group focused on producing a range of healthy and organic consumer packaged snacks
Psaltry International
Psaltry is an agro cultivating/processing business that processes cassava to produce high-quality food grade starch, high-quality flour, glucose, and sorbitol as intermediate goods for manufacturers.
Wemy Industries
Wemy is a hygiene and personal care manufacturing company based in Nigeria. The Company produces a range of baby, adult, and feminine care products that includes baby diapers, baby wipes, adult diapers, disposable face masks, underlay pads, and maternity pads.
SweepSouth
A woman-owned tech platform that connects customers with home service providers including cleaners, gardeners, laundry service, amongst others
Ivili Loboya
Ivili is a vertically integrated wool processor and is pioneering South Africa’s goat cashmere industry.
Team
Zakiya Khan
Investment Associate
Mooketsi Diseko
Investment Associate
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