Since its founding, Kuramo has paved the way for greater capital allocation in the Sub-Saharan African region and accelerated the presence of private equity firms. Kuramo is committed to generating positive, measurable socio-economic impact across the regions we invest, while working to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Green Africa is a Lagos-based airline investing in by Kuramo giving Nigerian people safe and affordable air travel between numerous Nigerian cities!
The Lokumete Mill is run by Kuramo-invested Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the largest industrial producer of palm oils in the DRC!
This mine, built by South-Africa based SepFlour, is used to produce fluorite (Fluorspar) which can be used to manufacture products such as aluminum and gasoline!
Powered by Viathan Engineering, the Lekki-Ikoye Bridge is a vital connector between two bustling parts of Lagos.
Kuramo Capital Management is an independent investment management firm seeding private commercial capital into Africa. We provide targeted global investment management services to institutional clients and ultra-high net worth individuals, focused on alternative assets in emerging and frontier markets
Kuramo is proud of its extensive team experience from investing in both private and public equities and debt in developed and emerging markets. We have investment professionals located in two of the three largest Sub-Saharan Africa financial capitals - Lagos (West Africa) and Nairobi (East Africa).
Kuramo has board experience in private and public companies (both SME and large scale across various countries) and a partnership team with a focus on capital preservation with multi-decade experience on investment, risk and credit committees.
We boast an investment team with wide multi-sector experience that covers our focus sector markets. Additionally, Kuramo has long-standing relationships with key players across corporates, governments and foreign investors keep us further ahead.
2X Global is delighted to announce the selection of Kuramo Capital Management LLC (“Kuramo”) as the manager for the 2X Ignite Africa Investment Facility for Warehousing Capital (“2XI Africa Warehousing Facility” or the “Facility”).
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Kuramo Capital Management (“Kuramo”) hosted its annual Sub-Saharan Africa Day at the Harvard Club in New York City during UN General Assembly Week 2023. African investment professionals, entrepreneurs, and government officials alike reunited to connect and showcase the tremendous Sub-Saharan Africa growth opportunity.
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One of our most important recent investments, through our managed funds, involves a long-established palm oil business in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”). We first invested in Plantations et Huileries du Congo S.A. (“PHC” or the “Company”) as a minority partner in 2017 alongside the CDC Group of the United Kingdom, a leading Development Finance Institution (“DFI”).
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