Helios Investment Partners

Helios Investment Partners is a private investment firm that focuses on Africa and manages a family of funds targeting growth and impact opportunities across the continent. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and maintains additional offices in cities such as Lagos and Nairobi, reflecting its pan African presence. Within Africa, Helios Investment Partners invests across a range of stages, including growth equity and later stage rounds. Based on disclosed transactions, the firm has participated in Seed and Series A funding for Conduit, a Nigerian fintech company that provides cross border business payments using fiat and stablecoins, as well as a venture round. It has also backed Interswitch, a Nigerian provider of digital payment infrastructure. In the energy and utilities sector, Helios has invested across multiple rounds in ZOLAi, a Tanzanian company that offers AI tools to run and optimize distributed clean energy, including Series D and other venture financings. These transactions indicate a particular focus on fintech and energy, with a geographic concentration in Nigeria and Tanzania. Helios Investment Partners frequently invests alongside other specialist and institutional investors. Co investors in its African portfolio have included DBL Partners, Electron Capital Partners, Sound Ventures and several other venture and impact oriented firms and development finance institutions, reflecting Helios’s role in larger syndicated financings for scale up companies in Africa.