Mbuyu Capital Partners Limited

Mbuyu Capital Partners Limited is a private markets investment firm that started as an Africa specialist and now concentrates on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and improving climate resilience. It invests its own money and brings in capital from like-minded investors.

What Mbuyu Capital Partners does

• Climate innovation investing: equity in science-based companies, mainly in food and agriculture.
• Alternative protein: backs plant-based and cultured protein producers.
• Resilient farming: invests in climate-tolerant seeds and integrated pest management.
• Special situations: debt and equity for companies needing quick funding with a set exit.
• Tailored portfolios: managed accounts built around an investor's impact goals.

Customers and markets

Early-stage and more mature companies, plus investors wanting impact-led returns. Its earlier African focus covered non-bank financial services, logistics, healthcare and agribusiness.

Key facts

• Approach: hands-on, often taking a board seat
• Track record: more than ten years investing in and running companies