Alitheia IDF

Growing businesses. Building African communities. Driving gender diversity

Navigating Prosperity, Securing Tomorrow.

The first dedicated gender lens investing fund in Africa

/ About Us

A Pioneering Private Equity Fund

Alitheia IDF is a $100 million private equity fund that drives growth in African SMEs by leveraging gender-balanced businesses to generate high financial returns and social impact.

We invest in sectors that engage a significant percentage of women, either as entrepreneurs, producers, distributors or consumers. Some of these sectors are:

01.

Agri-Business

02.

Consumer Goods

03.

Health

04.

Education

/Portfolio

Explore our dynamic portfolio of companies, each carefully selected to drive innovation and growth across diverse sectors and markets

SKLD

Woman-owned consumer goods company that manufactures, sources and distributes education supplies and humanitarian products.

Reelfruit

Woman-owned food and beverage/ agro-processing company that produces a range of retail packaged snacks.

Jetstream

Woman-owned digital Freight Forwarding company that provides a relatively frictionless cross-border trading experience

SweepSouth

A woman-owned tech platform that connects customers with home service providers including cleaners, gardeners, laundry service, amongst others

Psaltry

Psaltry is an agro cultivating/processing business that processes high-quality food grade starch, high-quality flour, glucose, and sorbitol as intermediate goods for manufacturers.

Wemy

Wemy is a hygiene and personal care manufacturing company based in Nigeria. The Company produces a range of baby, adult, and feminine care products.

Chika's Foods

A food and beverage group focused on producing a range of healthy and organic consumer packaged snacks

Ivili Loboya

Ivili is a vertically integrated wool processor and is pioneering South Africa’s goat cashmere industry.

Maximizing Your Financial Potential

/ Investment Strategy

Achieving superior financial and social returns by investing in a diversified portfolio of women-owned, women-led, or women-serving SMEs

Investment Thesis

Central to Alitheia IDF’s investment strategy is the development of well-run, well-positioned, attractive businesses where value is realized through gender diversity, good governance, and operational improvements.

We are the first private equity fund manager in Africa prioritizing growth stage companies that have gender diversified management teams with the vision and potential to scale regionally and drive economic and social transformation. We invest to create superior returns by leveraging on women as successful business leaders.

/ Impact

Impact is achieved by inclusion of women as economic participants contributing to wealth creation and social development

Access

More Women & Girls with access to essential services

Jobs

More Jobs for
Women

Diversity

Gender diverse teams – increase perfomance of businesses

Inclusive

Increased women in the business
Supply chains small scales farmers, providers of goods and services

Empowerment

More women
entrepreneurs

Outperforming

Gender diverse Investors achieving better results

/Team

Meet our expert team to help you secure your funding

'Tokunboh Ishmael

Co-Founder and Principal Partner - Nigeria

Polo Mohau Leteka

Co-Founder and Principal Partner - South Africa

/ News

Management and Investment News

Investing in Women in Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Nutrition (WOMAN)

Investing in Women in Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Nutrition…

Investing in Women in Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Nutrition (WOMAN) Request…

Seamfix secures $4.5 million funding from Alitheia IDF to expand digital ID and credential services across Africa

Seamfix secures $4.5 million funding from Alitheia IDF…

Seamfix secures $4.5 million funding from Alitheia IDF to expand…

Alitheia IDF Shortlisted for the Impact Fund of the Year at the 2024 Krutham Africa Impact Investment Awards

Alitheia IDF Shortlisted for the Impact Fund of…

Alitheia IDF Shortlisted for theImpact Fund of the Year at…