{"id":9147,"date":"2021-05-12T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:19:47","slug":"convergence-partners-best-tmt-impact-investment-strategy-africa-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/africa\/2021\/convergence-partners-best-tmt-impact-investment-strategy-africa-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Partners: Best TMT Impact Investment Strategy Africa 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9148\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Convergence-Partners.jpg\" alt=\"Convergence Partners\" width=\"400\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Convergence-Partners.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Convergence-Partners-300x50.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Convergence Partners is a private equity investor with a strong impact objective and a record of identifying, developing and adding value to investment opportunities in Africa\u2019s Technology Media and Telecom (TMT) sector. The private equity fund manager invests across all of sub-Saharan Africa with a current portfolio spanning 18 countries. It has invested in major projects in every major region of sub-Saharan Africa and the firm is always looking for opportunities to expand the reach and operations of these businesses and further its contribution to the entire continent\u2019s socio-economic development.\u00a0 Convergence Partners is headquartered in Johannesburg with offices in Lagos and Mauritius. It spurs financial and social growth with strategic investments in ICT infrastructure and digital innovation. Convergence Partners was founded in 2006 by a tight-knit team of founders who had worked together before and remain active in the business, together with a stable, experienced team that has been built over the years since. The firm values diversity and its talented team is a balance of races, genders and countries of origin. Convergence recently launched its third private equity fund; it aims to raise $250m by close and has attracted the attention of a number of DFIs and commercial investors. Convergence\u2019s first two funds, the second of which has reached full deployment, have invested in 29 companies and exited half of those deals. Convergence Partners is chipping away at the SDG challenges facing the Continent with an investment portfolio that strengthens continental connectivity as well as educational and financial inclusivity. The firm has recently taken the step of launching Sira, its self-developed bespoke impact measurement toolkit, that tracks impact achievements across its portfolios against SDG objectives. The CFI.co judging panel declares <a href=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/menu\/corporate\/2021\/04\/convergence-partners-impact-investing-and-the-metrics-needed-to-ascertain-the-benefits\/\">Convergence Partners<\/a> winner of the 2021 award for best TMT Impact Investing Strategy (Africa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convergence Partners is a private equity investor with a strong impact objective and a record of identifying, developing and adding value to investment opportunities in Africa\u2019s Technology Media and Telecom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,53,14,27,26],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-front","category-industries","category-technology","category-telecom","tag-tmt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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