Criterion Africa Partners
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Criterion Africa Partners is a private equity firm that invests in the forestry value chain in Sub-Saharan Africa, including plantation rehabilitation, downstream manufacturing, and biomass energy. It typically invests between $5 million and $30 million in companies with proven management teams.
Criterion Africa Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, in forestry, downstream manufacturing and biomass energy. Its stated cheque size is $5 million to $30 million.
“Criterion Africa Partners is a private equity firm that partners with proven management teams at growing companies to enhance productivity and create value for the benefit of all stakeholders in its key focus areas: Rehabilitation of existing plantations; downstream manufacturing and wood-based energy generation.”
— Criterion Africa Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Invests in
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Sectors
- forestry, downstream manufacturing, biomass energy
- Cheque size
- $5 million to $30 million
- Founded
- 2017
Team, as Criterion Africa Partners publishes it
- Ole C. Sand Managing Partner
- Jim Heyes Managing Partner
- Gordon Carrihill Managing Director
- Anneliese Kapp Principal
- Schalk Kapp Operating Partner
- Sarah Napier Senior Associate
- Emma Leigh Operations Manager
- David Hathorn Investment Committee Chairman
Names and roles exactly as listed on criterionafrica.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Criterion Africa Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://criterionafrica.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://criterionafrica.com/team/people
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