AHL Africa Credit Fund raises further $15m
With the latest facility, the fund has raised $45.5 million towards its $70 million target.
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AHL Venture Partners has closed a further $15 million debt facility for its AHL Venture Partners Africa Credit Fund (ACF).
The new facility brings ACF to $45.5 million raised from family offices and family foundations. The fund is targeting $70 million.
The fund is designed to attract private capital from high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and foundations seeking impact-aligned exposure to African credit markets.
“There are brilliant, high-growth businesses across the continent solving real problems. And there is genuine capital sitting with family offices, local asset managers and global allocators who want exposure to African private markets. The two sides just rarely find each other in a structure that works for both. When that fails to happen, it ends up being a poor experience, and the whole continent, or impact investing and alternatives as an asset class, gets written off. This is exactly what AHL was built to address,” commented Rosanne Whalley, CEO of AHL Venture Partners.
“We started as a single-family office, deploying patient capital into first-time fund managers and equity on the continent. That gave us over a decade of scar tissue and relationships — the kind you can’t shortcut. Today, with ACF, we’ve turned that into a bottom-up built product that meets the needs of the capital out there: liquid, risk-adjusted returns, with durable impact, backed by an experienced team in market. Our aim is to bridge this expectation and reality gap, to get more capital consistently flowing into African private markets.”
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