What we do
Real capital. Real capacity.
Capital on its own rarely fixes a business. We provide the funding, the structuring and the management capacity together — because that is how the money ends up being worth something.
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Growth & Private Equity Capital
Funding for expansions, acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, and the refinancing of businesses working through distress.
We structure, source funds for and manage private equity and venture capital transactions — providing human, debt and equity capital as the situation requires.
We work in partnership with management and owners, not around them. Every transaction is built on the same premise: that the quality of the management team is the single best predictor of whether the capital will work.
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Corporate Advisory & Deal Structuring
Support to structure transactions, strengthen governance, and prepare a business for its next round of funding — or for listing.
Advisory work for businesses we have invested in, businesses we have not, investor clients and listed companies — from strategy formulation through to execution.
The common thread is that management gets to think a decision through with someone who has seen it before, prior to committing capital to it.
Due diligence
Investigation of a business on behalf of a prospective investor, so that decisions on risk and opportunity are made on evidence.
Financial
Completed before the transaction, often jointly with a reporting accountant.
Legal
Assessing the obligations and liabilities of the target company, and the risks they create for the transaction.
Environmental
Assessing the physical environment for contamination risk, including soil and groundwater.
Business viability
Confirming there are no unforeseen liabilities and that the business is likely to be profitable and cash-generative, near term and long.
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Human Capital Development
Training and leadership development that builds the management capacity growing businesses need to scale sustainably.
Courses and services delivered in partnership with SkillUp24, tailored to what a specific business actually needs rather than drawn from a catalogue.
Delivered by subject-matter experts to the businesses we invest in and to companies we have no investment in at all.
Strategy and performance
Strategy Planning and Facilitation
Reviewing current strategy, then building something simpler that the whole organisation understands and has bought into.
Business Turnaround
Working with businesses on reversing performance, then systematically monitoring how the strategy is executed.
Change Management
Managing change in a structured, systematic and sustainable way, rather than as a series of announcements.
Leadership and teams
Leadership Development and Training
Equipping managers with leadership skills and establishing development programmes that outlast the training.
Coaching and Mentoring
Setting up and running coaching and mentorship programmes inside the business.
Team Building
Building winning teams and designing a self-sustaining culture of seamless teamwork.
Soft Skills Training
Adaptability, work ethic, active listening — the skills that give a team an edge where everything else is equal.
Brand and customers
Customer Centricity
Helping clients craft and hold a customer-centric culture rather than a customer-centric slogan.
Employer Branding
Programmes that get employees and customers to form a genuine emotional connection with the brand.
Business Keynote Speaking
Talks that challenge current thinking on business culture, leadership, strategy, people and talent management.
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Business Valuations
Independent, rigorous valuations to support transactions, fundraising and strategic decision-making.
We determine the value of a business, its assets, its liabilities, or individual components of equity — and we show the working.
A valuation is only as good as the assumptions underneath it. Ours are set out explicitly, tested for sensitivity, and defendable to a counterparty, a regulator or a court.
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Commercial Dispute Resolution
Practical support in resolving business disputes, protecting relationships and value while matters are worked through.
We offer mediation as an alternative to litigation for corporate clients and individuals.
We facilitate principled negotiation in place of adversarial confrontation — bringing opposing parties and their representatives to the same table.
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Investment Opportunities
Connecting investors to vetted, investment-ready businesses and structured opportunities across the region.
We sit between businesses that need capital and investors looking to deploy it, and we do the work in the middle so that neither side is guessing.
Opportunities are only put in front of investors once we have been through the business ourselves — the same diligence we would apply before committing our own capital.
For investors
Vetted, not listed
Every opportunity has been assessed by us before it reaches you, with the funding requirement, instrument and use of funds set out plainly.
Structured to fit
Debt, equity or a combination — structured around what the business can actually service rather than what is easiest to arrange.
Across the region
Mandates across Zimbabwe and the wider Southern African market, in the sectors where we have operating knowledge.
For businesses seeking capital
If you are raising, the work starts before anyone sees your business. We help get the governance, the numbers and the story into a state where an investor can say yes — and tell you honestly if they are not yet there.
Live mandates are not published on this site. Get in touch and we will tell you what is currently open.
Next step
Not sure which of these you need?
Most mandates start as a conversation about a problem, not a request for a product. Tell us the situation and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.