Alta Semper Capital

What is Alta Semper Capital?

Alta Semper Capital is a private equity fund with an expertise in equity investments targeting consumer products, retail, and healthcare sectors, emphasizing their position as a frontier-markets firm. Founded in 2015 and based in London, United Kingdom, they focus on injecting flexible and strategic capital into consumer and healthcare opportunities predominantly across African markets.

They adopt a flexible, strategic approach to investing, which involves forming lasting partnerships with companies, founders, and co-investors that share similar values and goals. This investor-centric model is geared towards identifying and investing in market-leading consumer and healthcare platforms that have regional aspirations.

Their investment philosophy underscores the potential of African markets and aims to support regional businesses in achieving their growth objectives.

Alta Semper Capital actively engages in the software space, specifically in web marketplaces, SaaS (Software as a Service), as well as HealthTech, fitness, and medical devices & hospital services industries. Their recent investments include putting $20 million into the Kenyan Primary Care and Digital Healthcare Platform MYDAWA.

The fund has made headway in the African continent by exiting investments like Egypt’s Macro Group Pharmaceuticals, demonstrating its active and exit-oriented investment strategy. Alta Semper's approach reflects a blend of identifying growth potentials in consumer and healthcare sectors and leveraging their expertise to amplify the growth and scale of their portfolio companies in the frontier markets.

What they say:

We are a private equity manager focused on African growth markets.

What we look for: We invest flexible and strategic capital in private equity opportunities across select African growth markets.