Platform Capital

Platform Capital describes itself as an investment company rooted in Africa with a global outlook. It works as a principal investor and adviser, placing capital alongside international and local investors to help promising businesses grow to regional or global scale.

What Platform Capital offers

• Principal investment: commits its own and partner capital to companies with strong growth potential.
• Advisory: supports the entrepreneurs it backs with operating experience and technical partnerships.
• Research: publishes reports on markets, economics, policy and trends across the continent.
• Fund management: includes fund management and fixed income among its investment areas.

Clients

It is sector agnostic, though its stated focus areas are the food and agriculture value chain, fund management and fixed income, technology, media, telecoms and payments, and the social impact space. Entrepreneurs can send a pitch deck or idea by email.

Key facts

• Offices: eight, spread across several continents, with African hubs including Lagos, Accra, Nairobi and Cape Town
• Portfolio reach: investments in 15 countries
• Approach: long-term, patient capital