

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
Investment Strategy
Achieving superior financial and social returns by investing in a diversified portfolio of women-owned, women-led, or women-serving SMEs
Investment Thesis
Central to Alitheia IDF's investment strategy is the development of well-run, well-positioned, attractive businesses where value is realized through gender diversity, good governance, and operational improvements.
We are the first private equity fund manager in Africa prioritizing growth stage companies that have gender diversified management teams with the vision and potential to scale regionally and drive economic and social transformation. We invest to create superior returns by leveraging on women as successful business leaders.
Impact
Impact is achieved by inclusion of women as economic participants contributing to wealth creation and social development
Portfolio
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Team
Zakiya Khan
Investment Associate
Mooketsi Diseko
Investment Associate
Gender Lens Investing Toolkit
Interested in investing using a Gender Lens? Here's a toolkit to help you get started.
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The Blog
Alitheia IDF has announced a $2.8 million investment in ALMA CLINICS, a technology-enabled private primary healthcare service provider. This funding will support the expansion of ALMA CLINICS from 6 to 35 locations over the next 1.5 to 3 years, aiming to increase annual patient visits from 32,000...٩ يونيو ٢٠٢٤Africa’s first and largest gender lens fund, Alitheia IDF (AIF), has secured a spot as a finalist for the Impact Fundof the Year at the 2024 Krutham Africa Impact Investment Awards. This recognition follows AIF's notable success in December 2023 when the fund was nominated for and won the ...Seamfix, a global digital identity solutions provider, has secured $4.5 million from Alitheia IDF, a gender lens investing fund, in a private equity funding round to scale the technology infrastructure that underpins its solutions, improve data flow crucial for continental trade and integration,...Contact Us
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Offices in Mauritius (Headquarters), Johannesburg and Lagos.