IDF Capital

Website: https://idf.co.za/ IDF Capital is a specialist entrepreneurial financing institution and private equity firm based in Illovo, Sandton, South Africa. It focuses on financing high growth small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurial businesses and manages and administers funds on behalf of institutional and corporate investors. IDF Capital is black women owned and applies a gender lens strategy that prioritises black owned, black women owned and black youth owned businesses. In Africa, IDF Capital provides capital through short and long term debt, quasi equity and equity instruments, with a focus on commercially viable and scalable SMEs. The firm invests across stages from early stage and seed through expansion and growth, which aligns with activity in seed and venture rounds for companies such as TooMuchWifi, Alma Clinics, Carscan, MortgageMarket and Droppa in South Africa. Its portfolio activity includes investments in sectors such as AI and analytics, telecom and connectivity, health tech, fintech and logistics and supply chain, with a clear geographic concentration in South Africa. IDF Capital combines funding with non financial business support and access to markets to help portfolio companies achieve both commercial returns and socio economic development outcomes. It has been active since 2008 as a fund manager and administrator, and its team is involved in broader African investment initiatives, including gender lens investing platforms that back women owned and women led businesses across sub Saharan Africa.