SAAD Investment Holdings
saad.co.za Direct investor
SAAD Investment Holdings is a South African private equity firm that buys, builds and grows businesses in key industries. It provides expansion and replacement capital, and mezzanine debt alongside equity, to profitable, capital-light companies.
SAAD Investment Holdings is a private equity firm headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, founded in 2006. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in financial services, retail, technology and agri-processing. Its stated cheque size is R30m – R60m+ equity cheque.
“We primarily focus on providing expansion and replacement capital for businesses with a proven business concept and real growth opportunities and therefore do not look to provide angel funding and/or seed capital to start-up ventures.”
— SAAD Investment Holdings, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Invests in
- South Africa
- Sectors
- financial services, retail, technology, agri-processing, waste management, logistics, contact centre technology, healthcare risk waste
- Cheque size
- R30m – R60m+ equity cheque
- Founded
- 2006
Team, as SAAD Investment Holdings publishes it
- Peter Doyle Chairman
- Omri Thomas Chairman: Investment Committee
- Johan du Preez Director
- Emile Wessels Director
- Johann Snyman CEO
- Jurgen Badenhorst Private Equity Analyst
- Faure Heymans Investment Manager
- Lindie Keller Head of Finance
- Carla Swiegelaar Finance & Admin Support
Names and roles exactly as listed on saad.co.za. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page SAAD Investment Holdings publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://saad.co.za/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, description, people, status, confidence
- https://saad.co.za/investment-thesis/layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote
- https://saad.co.za/who-we-are/type, founded
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