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        • 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.

          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

          Show off your projects, features, or clients in this section.

          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

          Woman-owned food and beverage group focused on producing a range of healthy and organic consumer packaged snacks

        • Team

          'Tokunboh Ishmael

          co-Founder and Principal Partner - Nigeria

          Polo Leteka is a highly accomplished and experienced entrepreneur and private equity investor. She is the Executive Director and co-Founder of IDF Capital - a South African based entrepreneurial financier and advisory firm. Through IDF Capital, Polo has contributed towards channeling investments into women owned SMEs across South Africa.  Polo, an accountant by training, has experience in Public and Private sectors of South Africa in accounting and audits, corporate finance, investment banking, public policy formulation, venture capital and private equity. At a fairly young age, Polo was tasked with leading the process of developing South Africa's first ever Codes of Good Practice on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. With this ground breaking work, coupled with her participation in South Africa's version of the Dragons Den, speaking engagements, articles on transformation and entrepreneurship including being a co-author of an entrepreneurship book "..and for all these reasons, I'M IN...", she is a thought leader in areas of economic transformation and development, as well as a key investor in Africa's expanding SME sector.

          Polo Leteka Radebe

          co-Founder and Principal Partner - South Africa

          Phokwane Moloele

          Principal - South Africa

          Temilade Denton

          ESG & Social Impact Manager

          Oluwakemi Olajide

          Senior Associate

          Zweli Thobela

          Senior Investment Analyst

          Lionel Adabayeri

          Investment Associate

          Moyosore Babalola

          Senior Investment Associate

          Pyi Sone Maung

          Senior Associate

          Oti Ilentamhen

          Investment Manager - Nigeria

        • Gender Lens Investing Toolkit

          Interested in investing using a Gender Lens? Here's a toolkit to help you get started.

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        • In the news

          Updates, deals, and thought leadership

          Capria VC interviews Alitheia Identity Managers

          Private Equity in Africa Can Drive Gender Equality

          This $100 Million Fund Is Betting On First-Time Impact Fund Managers

          AfDB invests in Women-owned SMEs in Africa through Alitheia Identity Fund (AIF)

          Introducing Alitheia Identity Managers (AIM): Capria’s First All-Female Fund Management Team

        • The Blog

          #BreakTheBias: What is good for African women is good for Africa
          March 8, 2022
            Africa’s regional economy is at an inflection point as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to formalise sectors and expand the economic possibilities of Africa by enabling intra-regional trade and opening a consumer market of over 1.3 billion people with a GDP of $3.4...
          EIB-supported gender lens investment fund Alitheia IDF announces final close at $100 million
          December 15, 2021
            PRESS RELEASE  The management of Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first women-led and women-focused private equity fund, has announced the final close of the $100 million fund with European Investment Bank (EIB) joining as the closing investor with $24.6million. With this final close, Alitheia...
          Alitheia Identity Joins Global Summit on Financial Inclusion for Women
          October 24, 2017
          Alitheia Identity Joins Global Summit on Financial Inclusion for Women DAR ES SALAAM – Alitheia Identity travels to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania this week for global NGO Women’s World Banking’s biennial international gathering, the Making Finance Work for Women Summit. The event is a two-day program...
        • Contact Us

          If you are looking for growth capital, please complete the contact form below with a summary of your business and investment needs, and we will follow up with you.

          Offices in Mauritius (Headquarters), Johannesburg and Lagos.
          info@alitheiaidf.com
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