This series offers an overview of Africa's Private Capital Activity, with this report highlighting key trends in investments, exits, and fundraising observed during the first quarter of 2024.

The report provides analysis on the latest trends of fundraising, investments, and exits within African Private Capital Activity in Africa, shedding light on the recent developments that took place during 2023. 

This marks the third edition of the AVCA’s Private Capital Industry Survey, offering a comprehensive exploration of the perspectives, plans, preferences, and expectations of 88 investors, including both Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) actively involved in Africa’s private capital industry.

A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Sandboxes and Payment Service Providers

This report provides an analysis on the latest trends of fundraising, investments, and exits unfolding across the continent in 2022.

In the report we present an overview of the African venture capital ecosystem, spotlighting the latest global trends and development during the highly eventful start to the year for Africa’s innovation ecosystem.

This edition of the AVCA's Country Snapshot provides a sector analysis of Senegal's business climate, private capital investment evolution, liberal investing landscape, deals and exits. Discover how the Senegalese economic outlook compares to the rest of West Africa.

2021 AVCA’s Africa Private Capital Activity report presents the current state and recent development of private capital activity in Africa. It provides an analysis on the latest trends of fundraising, investments, and exits unfolding across the continent in 2021.

Une version française du rapport « Private Equity & Venture Capital in Africa - Covid-19 Response Report » produite par Oxford Business Group (OBG) en collaboration avec l’African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), a été publiée ce jour. Cette publication, fruit d’un partenariat entre OBG et HEC Paris, présente des données essentielles ainsi que des infographies relatives aux tendances actuelles et futures en matière de capital-investissement et capital-risque.

AVCA is pleased to present the second edition of the African Private Equity Industry Survey, a study that provides insight into how both LPs and GPs are evaluating the African private equity industry.

AVCA is delighted to present the fourth edition of the AVCA Limited Partner (LP) Survey, which examines global investor views about private equity in Africa and return expectations in an evolving industry. Given the evolving global geopolitical landscape, it is more important than ever to undertake investor outreach in order to identify consensus views that will impact our industry. This year’s report finds that despite its challenges, LPs continue to see the appeal of African private equity.

AVCA is delighted to announce the publication of the Country Snapshot: Côte d'Ivoire. Drawing on data from AVCA’s proprietary databases, the Snapshot provides a broad overview of the private equity landscape in Côte d'Ivoire.

The 2016 Annual African Private Equity Data Tracker draws on data from AVCA’s proprietary private equity (PE) database and provides insights into key trends in PE investment and fundraising in Africa from 2011 – 2016. Our findings show that deal activity in Africa continues to be strong even in an increasingly volatile global economic environment.

AVCA is pleased to announce the publication of the Spotlight on West Africa Private Equity. The report provides a summary of recent private equity transactions and exits in the region between 2010 and 2016 H1. Our findings reveal that 249 PE deals were completed in West Africa, with a combined value of US$5.4bn.

AVCA is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of its Limited Partner Survey, which provides insights into the views, plans and expectations of a diverse range of LPs from across the globe.

AVCA is pleased to announce the publication of the Spotlight on West Africa Private Equity. The report provides a summary of recent private equity transactions, exits and fundraising activity in the region. Our findings reveal that 311 PE deals were recorded in the region since 2007 with a total deal value of US$6.1bn.

AVCA is pleased to present the second edition of the Limited Partner Survey. The purpose of this report is to provide stakeholders with views, plans and expectations on private equity in Africa from the Limited Partner’s (LP’s) across the globe.