Vantage Capital

AUM : $500 million

In early 2005, with the investment period on the technology fund coming to an end, VCFM started to explore the possibility of raising a second fund. With the help of the Dutch Development Bank FMO, it was decided that the low interest rate environment then prevailing in SA – which represented a significant departure from the high interest rates that characterised the eighties and nineties in the country – supported the establishment of a mezzanine fund. The fund raising process culminated in the final closing of the Vantage Mezzanine Fund in November 2007, with commitments of R1,003 million ($150 million).

Vantage Capital Fund Managers (“VCFM”) has funds under management and investments of over R8.0 billion (over $500 million). VCFM was launched in 2001 with the Vantage Technology Fund which has invested R130 million ($19 million) in ten investments ranging from small start-ups, to larger established listed entities. The fund is now in the last phases of divestiture.

Areas of Expertise

Waste management

Information technology

Real estate

Mining

Construction

Chemicals

Forestry

Catering

Media

Steel recycling