AfricInvest

Venture Capital

AfricInvest is a leading pan-African private equity firm operating across multiple offices in Africa and Europe. Founded twenty-four years ago, the firm manages over 1bn euros and invests in enterprises with regional growth aspirations.

Website

Portfolio

companies

AUM

£1000M

under management

Portfolio companies

InstaDeep

InstaDeep develops advanced decision making artificial intelligence systems for industrial applications.

Team

Khaled Ben Jilani

Senior Partner

Khaled serves as senior partner at AfricInvest. He brings extensive investment and governance experience from roles including non-executive director at Aquila Capital and board member at the Tunisian American Chamber of Commerce.

Recent investments

Series A3 May 2019

£5.5M

InstaDeep secures £5.5m in Series A funding led by AfricInvest to advance its artificial intelligence platform.

AI/ML SaaS

AfricInvest led the Series A round with participation from Endeavor Catalyst to support platform development.

"Through our own cutting-edge research, we have developed a platform that goes beyond what we have seen in AI applications in the past. It can tackle challenging optimisation and automation challenges in dynamic and complex environments such as, but not limited to, mobility, logistics, manufacturing and energy. We already see that our product is providing real value and ROI for our clients"

— Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO

InstaDeep—London, UK

AfricInvest + 1 other