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Vital Capital

Limmatquai 16, Zürich, Zurich, 8001, Switzerland

Overview

Vital Capital Fund is a $350 million private equity fund that invests in opportunities which simultaneously enhance the quality of life of communities in rapidly developing nations, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, while also delivering attractive financial returns for investors. Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth over the past decade has been extensively chronicled. A litany of reports, articles and studies tout the impressive developments enabled by a significantly more stable political and economic landscape and an increasingly successful conversion of natural resources into important national assets and critical infrastructure. Vital’s seasoned team has over 30 years of successful ‘on-the-ground’ experience in Africa across a wide range of industries. Having successfully deployed billions of dollars in hundreds of large-scale infrastructure ventures, the Vital team brings a vast network of key relationships to the Fund. Vital’s primary investment interest is the development of infrastructure. Vital broadens its investment prospects by focusing on urban, large-scale, community-integrated housing concepts and initiating fully integrated agro-industrial solutions, as well as giving particular emphasis to education and healthcare. In addition to these important sectors, the fund also seeks to invest in other large-scale infrastructure projects of national importance. This intersection of need, opportunity and experience creates enormous potential for Vital to ‘Invest for Impact’: simultaneously providing tangible improvements in the quality of life of local populations while providing investors with attractive financial returns.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • Water Health International

    Led · Equity · Sep 2014

    WaterHealth International provides decentralized, low-cost, easy-to-maintain water purification facilities (WaterHealth Centers or WHCs) that supply communities with affordable, purified drinking water under the "Dr. Water" brand. When WHCs are purchased by governments, municipalities, corporations, communities or NGOs, ownership is awarded to the local community and WHI enters into long-term concessions to operate and maintain the WHC. WHI has deployed over 500 WHCs in India and sub-Saharan Africa, providing clean drinking water access to over 5 million underserved people. The company sets local prices in consultation with communities to cover embedded services (labor, laboratory tests, pumping, electricity, equipment, and chemicals) while remaining affordable and commercially viable. WHI also invests in health and hygiene education programs to combat waterborne diseases in the communities it serves. The company aims to achieve significant scale in Africa, India and other emerging markets by leveraging its disciplined operations and maintenance infrastructure.

Team

No current team members are available.