Cygnum Capital
cygnumcapital.com Direct investor
Cygnum Capital is an investment banking and asset management firm specializing in frontier and emerging markets, with headquarters in London and offices in Dubai, Amsterdam, Nairobi, and Lagos. It manages funds focused on sectors such as renewable energy, critical minerals, and infrastructure, and provides financial advisory services.
Cygnum Capital is an asset manager headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, in renewable energy, critical minerals, infrastructure and power. Over US$ 1.4 billion under management, as it reports.
“We provide a broad product offering across corporate finance, asset management and financial advisory services, providing our clients with “first-of-their-kind” transactions across frontier and emerging markets.”
— Cygnum Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Asset manager
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Africa, Asia, Middle East, frontier and emerging markets
- Sectors
- renewable energy, critical minerals, infrastructure, power, real estate, financial services, healthcare
- Founded
- 2008
- Assets under management
- over US$ 1.4 billion
Team, as Cygnum Capital publishes it
- Clemens Calice Managing Director
- Alix Graham Managing Director
- Aziz Ndiaye Managing Director
- Brock Hoback Managing Director
- Carmen De Castro Managing Director
- Chris Kandie Managing Director
- Cora Zeeman Managing Director
- Dan Hughes Managing Director
- Emil Huseynov Managing Director
- Enrico Nora Managing Director
- Felix Brand Managing Director
- Geoffrey Wahome Managing Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on cygnumcapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 24 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 7 shared companies: eib.org, afdb.org, kfw.de, usaid.gov…
- AfricaGoGreen Fund 4 shared companies: ifc.org, afdb.org, kfw.de, bii.co.uk
- Circulate Capital 4 shared companies: ifc.org, eib.org, usaid.gov, dfc.gov
- Trade and Development Bank 3 shared companies: ifc.org, eib.org, worldbank.org
- Agaciro Development Fund 2 shared companies: brd.rw, ifc.org
- AIMS of Bangladesh Limited 2 shared companies: ifc.org, worldbank.org
- Venturewave Group 2 shared companies: ifc.org, thegiin.org
- Blue Haven Initiative 2 shared companies: thegiin.org, act.is
- Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Berenberg 1 shared company: eib.org
and 14 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cygnum Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.cygnumcapital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, status
- https://www.cygnumcapital.com/aboutfounded
- https://www.cygnumcapital.com/peoplepeople
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