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Development Partners International

Investor type Private Equity Firm
Founders Miles Morland Runa Alam

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.38
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 5
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Food Processing
  • Telecommunications
Summary

In 2007 was created Development Partners International, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Development Partners International works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Food Processing. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Cu00f4te d'Ivoire. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ChannelVAS, Banque Atlantique, Food Concepts Plc. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Miles Morland, Runa Alam.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Development Partners International, startups are often financed by AfricInvest, Truffle Capital, Musa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Thawer Capital Management (UK). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pioneer Foods, Mediterrania Capital Partners, HarbourVest Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ukheshe Technologies

Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Financial Services
Payments
$40M07 Dec 2022 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Groupe COFINA

Finance
Financial Services
Small and Medium Businesses
Venture Capital
$70M25 May 2022 Lagunes, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Channel VAS

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Telecommunications
$54M26 Sep 2019 Dubai

ABI

Financial Services
01 Dec 2017 Côte d'Ivoire, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire

Dolidol

3D Printing
Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
$30M25 Oct 2017 Casablanca, préfecture d'arrondissements de Casablanca-Anfa عمالة مقاطعات الدار البيضاء أنفا, Morocco

EGIC - Egyptian German Industrial Corporate

Building Material
Information Technology
Manufacturing
01 Apr 2017 Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

OSEAD Maroc Mining

Mineral
Mining
Precious Metals
01 Jan 2017 Casablanca, préfecture d'arrondissements de Casablanca-Anfa عمالة مقاطعات الدار البيضاء أنفا, Morocco

Manufacturing
Packaging Services
$55M30 Sep 2016 Bejaia, Algeria

Banking
Financial Services
$100M11 Sep 2016 Côte d'Ivoire, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire
News
Egyptian fintech MNT-Halan lands $120M from Apis Partners, DisrupTech and others

– MNT-Halan, a fintech company, raised $120m funding.
– The round was led by private equity firms Apis Growth Fund II, Development Partners International and Lorax Capital Partners, as well as VCs like Middle East Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst and DisruptTech.
– It brings the total funding to $150m.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its services across Egypt and the MENA region.

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