SEARCH FUNDERS INTERNATIONAL VENTURES

* Search Funders International Ventures are a UK based search funder's fund creating a network of investors (individuals, institutional ) committed to building the ecosystem of the search fund model as an alternative investment vehicle in Africa focusing on the mid cap companies. * Build industry-wide infrastructure that enables broader and more effective participation in the search fund investing industry and make a long lasting impact. * According to a survey by the UK-based pan-Afr... ican private equity firm, Jacana Partners, 70% of Africans currently studying towards an MBA at leading Western business schools will return to the continent to work after graduation. Of this 70%, half said they are returning to Africa to become entrepreneurs and start their own companies rather than work for someone else. * Placing well-educated, high caliber, strongly motivated managers who have a leadership skill set from larger organisations into such an environment captures unmet opportunities. * The results are an attractive risk-adjusted IRR and development of a management infrastructure which creates self-sustaining organisations, and allowing Africa to develop a stronger, more robust, medium sized business community capable of competing more effectively. * Their goal is to help 20 search funds get established in Africa by 2020. * They provide equity to search funds and make minority investments in operating companies in conjunction with Individual investors,institutional investors and private equity firms. Search funds are different from traditional private equity, because the managers of the fund will also have a significant part in operating the business once the acquisition is complete.More