Private equity : XSML goes back to investors for fourth fund
With its third vehicle about to be fully invested, the impact fund manager is preparing the next step and targeting a new country.
20/12/2022 at 19h13, by Africa Business+
The latest Africa Rivers Fund launched by XSML reflects the rising ambitions of the Dutch private equity firm, which is targeting $150 million. According to Africa Business+ sources, the trio of managers, Marcel Posthuma, Jarl Heijstee and Barthout van Singlelandt, are hoping to raise even more and have set a hard cap of $200 million.
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