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Standard Bank advises CANAL+ on its JSE listing
Standard Bank acted as joint financial advisor and transaction sponsor to CANAL+ on its successful secondary inward listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Read more
Here are summaries of the five most widely read stories the past week on Africa Private Equity News.
1. New DEG private equity fund-of-funds
DEG Impact, a subsidiary of German development finance institution DEG, is launching a new private equity fund-of-funds, the Global Growth Guarantee Fund (3xG Fund), to facilitate institutional investors’ access to high-growth markets. Read the full article
2. Helios exits Africa Specialty Risks
Helios Investment Partners has agreed to sell its majority stake in Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) to Vitruvian Partners, a global private equity firm. Founded in 2020 by industry specialist Mikir Shah and his team in partnership with Helios, ASR has doubled its premium base annually since inception, de-risking more than $60 billion in exposure across 90 developing markets. Read the full article
3. Stanlib, Standard Bank and Harith back Traxtion in $86m raise
Traxtion, a South Africa-based end-to-end rail services company, has concluded an $86 million equity capital raise, bringing together Stanlib Infrastructure Investments, Standard Bank and long-standing investor Harith through its Harith InfraCo and PAIDF2 funds. Read the full article
4. New exit for Knife Capital
Knife Capital, through its KNF II fund, has exited its stake in VoxCroft Analytics Inc., the American entity of South African-based VoxCroft, to Redpoint Advisors, a US-based intelligence advisory firm. VoxCroft developed a proprietary approach it calls population-centric intelligence: a blend of hyperlocal data collection, low-resource machine translation, AI public sentiment analytics, and specialised human wisdom. Read the full article
5. BluePeak Private Capital in West African logistics deal
BluePeak Private Capital has announced a $16 million investment in Groupe Centaures, a logistics provider in Côte d’Ivoire, through a sustainability-linked loan structured around greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Groupe Centaures is a third-generation, family-owned logistics company, and one of the few leading local players providing end-to-end services across road transport, warehousing, lifting, and container management. Read the full article
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Dealmaker’s Log: African private equity and VC deals in May 2026
Africa Private Equity News this week published the May 2026 issue of our Dealmaker’s Log, which tracks the reported African private equity/debt and venture capital transactions from last month (and extending back to an archive of transactions since May 2023). Access the Dealmaker’s Log here
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[In-depth interview] From beverage cans to gyms: Verod’s investment playbook for West Africa
In 2008, Danladi Verheijen co-founded Verod Capital Management, a private equity investment firm focused on West Africa. Africa Private Equity News editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz interviewed him about his journey as an investor and the lessons he has learnt along the way. Watch/read the interview here
