Sango Capital Management

What is Sango Capital Management?

Sango Capital Management is an investment management firm established in 2011 with a focus on generating superior risk-adjusted returns through fund and direct investments in Africa. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, and offers services to various global investors such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices.

Sango Capital's investment strategy integrates international best practices and deep local networks to identify and capitalize on unique mid-market investment opportunities throughout the African continent. The firm operates with a foundational belief that Africa, a continent with one-sixth of the global population, is a vastly underrepresented investment frontier that will gain significant importance in institutional investor portfolios.

To leverage Africa's rapidly growing economic force and the fastest global adoption rate of mobile technology, Sango actively invests across all regions on the continent, targeting fast-growing countries with favorable investment climates. They uphold three core principles: trusted relationships, growth-oriented investments, and a commitment to responsible investing that prioritizes not only financial returns but also environmental, social, and governance factors to maximize societal and economic impact.

Sango Capital manages both core hybrid private equity funds and the Sango Strategic Equity Vehicle (SSEV). The hybrid funds include a mix of primary, secondary, end-of-fund life, and tail-end fund investments, with a strategic framework focused on emerging consumer wallets, the food value chain, energy, power, infrastructure services, and tech-enabled growth funds.

Their SSEV is an evergreen vehicle targeting upper-middle-market businesses with significant growth potential, designed to hold investments for longer durations to enable compounding of capital. The team is led by co-founders Richard Okello and Charles Mwebeiha, supported by a group of investment and operations professionals.