Our Firm
Our Firm
54 Capital is an Africa-focused asset manager established in 2013 by Saad Aouad, its current Chief Investment Officer.
From inception, 54 Capital has set itself apart with an agile and adaptive deal-by-deal execution and fundraising strategy. This strategy ensures a better alignment with the interests of each of its investors, as well as provides greater accountability and increased value to all stakeholders. 54 Capital has no pressure to deploy, before the end of a given investment period, a blind pool of capital already committed to a fund. Instead, 54 Capital thrives to only source investments that will best fit its investors’ risk appetite and return expectations.
Today, the team has grown to 9 investment professionals, spread across offices in Morocco, Dubai and Addis Ababa.
The team currently manages six portfolio companies with a total deployed amount of US $150 million, making 54 Capital the largest private financial investor in Ethiopia.
In 2018, the firm successfully exited its first investment, concluded in 2015, in the Moroccan private education sector.
About
Our Firm
54 Capital is an Africa-focused asset manager established in 2013 by Saad Aouad, its current Chief Investment Officer.
From inception, 54 Capital has set itself apart with an agile and adaptive deal-by-deal execution and fundraising strategy. This strategy ensures a better alignment with the interests of each of its investors, as well as provides greater accountability and increased value to all stakeholders. 54 Capital has no pressure to deploy, before the end of a given investment period, a blind pool of capital already committed to a fund. Instead, 54 Capital thrives to only source investments that will best fit its investors’ risk appetite and return expectations.
Today, our team has grown with investment professional spread across our offices in Morocco, Dubai, Mauritius and Addis Ababa. The team currently manages six portfolio companies with a total deployed amount of US $150 million, making 54 Capital the largest private financial investor in Ethiopia. In 2018, the firm successfully exited its first investment, concluded in 2015, in the Moroccan private education sector.
