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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.

        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

        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

        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

        '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

        Temilade Denton

        ESG & Social Impact Manager

        Oluwakemi Olajide

        Senior Associate

        Zweli Thobela

        Senior Investment Analyst

        Otaigbe Ilentamhen

        Investment Manager - Nigeria

        George Phiri

        Investment Manager

        Moyosore Babalola

        Senior Investment Associate

        Pyi Sone Maung

        Senior Associate

        Zakiya Khan

        Investment Associate

        Lionel Adabayeri

        Investment Associate

        Molade Elodimour

        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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      • 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

        Alitheia IDF investment enables management to take over Club Travel Corporate 
        2022年12月7日
        Alithea IDF Fund (AIF), Africa’s first and largest gender-lens investing private equity fund, today finalised its investment into corporate travel management company, Club Travel Corporate (CTC). The investment will enable CTC’s Black women-led management team to take over the company through a...
        Lessons from Using a Gender Lens to Support Women Entrepreneurs
        2022年11月2日
        By Tokunboh Ishmael Alitheia IDF's work on gender lens investing to support women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa has provided several important lessons for impactful gender lens investing. In this article, Alitheia IDF's co-founder and Principal Partner (Nigeria), 'Tokunboh Ishmael, shares...
        Alitheia IDF leads $11 million investment round in SweepSouth
        2022年9月27日
        26 September 2022: SweepSouth, an online home services platform with presence across Africa, today announced that it has completed an US$11m investment round led by Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first and largest gender-lens private equity fund. The size of the round, which is SweepSouth’s...
        #BreakTheBias: What is good for African women is good for Africa
        2022年3月8日
          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
        2021年12月15日
          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
        2017年10月24日
        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...
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        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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