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1K Africa and Crossfin Acquire Leading Multinational Enterprise Software Company, Sybrin, for R410 Million | Business Wire

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An Interview with President and CEO of 1K Africa, Hendrik Jordaan

1K Africa Fund I, LP is a private family capital fund targeting some of the world’s highest growth regions and industries, located in Sub-Saharan Africa’s “lower middle market,” through a differentiated model that is specifically designed for...

Putting money to work in Africa

1K Africa CEO Hendrik Jordaan discusses where he sees opportunity in Africa.

1K Africa Announces Investment In South African Agribusiness Sector

Investment by Sub-Saharan Africa-focused private capital fund in RedSun, a leading South African raisin processing company, targets top returns and job creation JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (FEBRUARY 2, 2015) – 1K Africa, a private family capital fund focused...

Patient Capitalism

Harnessing the collective power of family capital is not a newconcept. But 1K Africa is adding a twist: calling on families’ sector expertise and intellectual firepower to super-charge emerging market SMEs. Just don’t call it impact investing.

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For more than 20 years, McKay Belk, in his role as president and chief merchandising officer at his family’s third-generation family business Belk, has spent hundreds of hours every year crisscrossing the globe with his team.

Building Doors Where There Were Only Walls With “Three-Dimensional Capital”

NEW YORK, N.Y. — From Berlin to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was kept in a prison cell, Hendrik Jordaan, president and CEO of 1K Africa, sees walls that have affected world history. For him, people in...

A new long-term private equity fund for Africa

1K Africa is a new private investment fund that aims to help sub-Saharan African businesses create jobs. The fund wants to help African businesses in a number of industries, and is looking at Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and...

Scions plant seeds for African fruit

Wealthy families have set up a new private equity fund with patient capital to invest in African companies. A new family-focused African private equity venture – 1K Africa – was born out of frustration. “This wasn’t a...

Coors-Led African Buyout Fund in Talks From Kenya to Nigeria

1K Africa, an Africa-focused private-equity fund, said it’s in talks about investing in two Nigerian companies and another in Kenya. In Nigeria, “one is a purely consumer-facing opportunity the other is also in the manufacturing space with...

Private-Equity-Fonds aus Afrika will Schweizer Anleger gewinnen

Der afrikanische Private- Equity-Fonds 1K Africa erwägt, ein Büro in Zürich zu eröffnen. Damit könnte der Fonds Schweizer Investoren gewinnen.0 18. November (Bloomberg) – Der afrikanische Private- Equity-Fonds 1K Africa erwägt, ein Büro in Zürich zu eröffnen....

Unique investing collective debuts in Denver

1K Africa works with wealthy families, will invest in Africa

No More Charity: But Do Markets Deliver For Africa’s Poorest?

When John Coors’ coffee arrives, he starts loading it with sugar by the spoonful. “I really am a soft drink guy,” he says. It is the second revelation of the morning. Coors, a scion of the famous...
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