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Zephyr Funds

Zephyr Peacock India

Zephyr Peacock India Fund seeks to make private equity investments targeting India's fast growing small and medium market corporate segment. In addition to providing capital, Zephyr Peacock seeks to add value to the portfolio companies by leveraging its global relationships in the international corporate and financial markets. The Fund's management team, based in Bangalore and New York, combines local and international private equity expertise and has many years of investment and operating experience. Read More

Emerald Sri Lanka Fund

Emerald Sri Lanka Fund invests in high growth private businesses creating value-add products and services in Sri Lanka and overseas. NDB Zephyr Partners is an advisory affiliate of Zephyr Management. Read More

Zephyr Korea, L.P. (ZK)

Zephyr Korea, L.P. (ZK) was formed in December 1996 to participate in what Zephyr had identified as an increasing trend towards deregulation of the Korean capital markets and the adoption of Western-style corporate practices such as focused and profit-oriented management and transparent governance by Korean businesses. ZK sought to achieve significant capital gains by making privately negotiated equity investments in small and medium-sized Korean companies and by purchasing interests in existing Korean private equity funds at a discount to net asset value in the secondary market.

ZN Mexico Trust (ZNM) and ZN Mexico II, L.P. (ZNM II)

ZN Mexico Trust (ZNM) and ZN Mexico II, L.P. (ZNM II), collectively referred to as the 'Funds', were launched in 1998 and 2002, respectively, to make private equity investments in middle market companies in Mexico participating in the growth opportunities created by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The ZN Mexico Funds sought to achieve superior returns primarily by making privately negotiated equity and equity-related investments in middle market Mexican companies participating in the economic opportunities generated by the convergence of the US, Canadian and Mexican (NAFTA) economies.

Zephyr Acorn

Acorn Africa Fund I and II provide equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond. To learn more about Zephyr Acorn, click here. Read More

African Agricultural Capital Fund L.L.C. (AACF)

Zephyr Management was appointed successor manager of AACF in July 2018. Originally formed in 2011, AACF called approximately $20 million to invest in eight companies involved in various aspects of agriculture in Uganda, Kenya, and Malawi. Zephyr is providing active support to portfolio companies to address capital needs and working toward an orderly liquidation of AACF’s five remaining investments. Read More

Pan-African Investment Partners (PAIP)

Pan-African Investment Partners I, L.P. (PAIP I) and Pan-African Investment Partners II, L.P. (PAIP II) were launched in 2003 and 2008, respectively, to make private equity investments in Africa. The PAIP Funds invested in businesses that were expanding regionally in Africa through organic growth or acquisition. The Manager assisted these businesses in becoming leading African businesses in their industries, in order to be fully competitive in a global economy. Building critical mass in these businesses was crucial in order to achieve competitive size and adequate profitability.

South Africa Capital Growth Fund (SACGF) and South Africa Private Equity Fund (SAPEF)

SACGF and its sister Fund, SAPEF, were launched in August 1995 to make private equity investments in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa. The Funds, which invested in parallel and on the same terms, sought to capitalize on what the Manager viewed as a unique window of opportunity to invest in post-Apartheid South Africa. SACGF is in the process of divesting its remaining holdings.

ZM Africa Investment Fund (ZMAIF)

ZMAIF was launched in 1997 to make private equity investments in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa, also known as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Zephyr became the manager in 2000. ZMAIF sought to make diversified direct private equity investments in high growth business sectors in liberalized African markets in the SADC region. The Fund’s investments have been fully divested.

Zephyr Management Office

Zephyr Management, L.P. is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity funds.

Zephyr has provided patient capital along with operational support to 95 companies in the underserved markets.

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