Driven by sustainable investment and innovation to uplift communities across Africa and beyond.
Arifund is a next-generation pan-African investment platform designed to mobilize capital at scale and direct it toward Africa’s most urgent development priorities. We specialize in unlocking opportunity at the intersection of infrastructure, energy, technology, and natural resource value chains.
Africa’s Infrastructure Gap: Africa needs over $100 billion annually in infrastructure investment. ARIF exists to fill this gap through capital mobilization, structured finance, and blended investment partnerships.
Our Mission: To mobilize and deploy strategic capital across Africa in ways that drive inclusive development, expand access to clean energy, unlock value from natural resources, and build resilient infrastructure—delivering measurable impact and strong returns for our partners and the communities we serve.
Flexible Financial Innovation: We blend equity, bonds, guarantees, and concessional capital to create tailored financing structures that match local development needs with institutional requirements.
Africa’s Infrastructure Gap: Africa needs over $100 billion annually in infrastructure investment. ARIF exists to fill this gap through capital mobilization, structured finance, and blended investment partnerships.
Our Mission: To mobilize and deploy strategic capital across Africa in ways that drive inclusive development, expand access to clean energy, unlock value from natural resources, and build resilient infrastructure—delivering measurable impact and strong returns for our partners and the communities we serve.
Flexible Financial Innovation: We blend equity, bonds, guarantees, and concessional capital to create tailored financing structures that match local development needs with institutional requirements. .
Ortus Africa Capital (OAC) is the fund manager and strategic advisor to the Africa Renaissance Infrastructure Fund (ARIF). OAC is a specialist investment firm based in Uganda and with offices in the UK, with deep roots across African financial markets and a strong track record of deploying private capital into high-impact opportunities across private credit, venture capital, and infrastructure.
Ortus Africa Capital is fully integrated into ARIF’s operations. The firm manages all aspects of the Fund’s activities including capital mobilization, origination of infrastructure opportunities, investment screening and structuring, due diligence and execution, and ongoing portfolio and impact monitoring. OAC also supports the Fund’s regulatory compliance across its Pan-African footprint, and leads engagement with anchor investors, government partners, and development finance institutions.
Since its founding, Ortus Africa Capital has originated, structured, or advised on over $200 million worth of investments across the region, including first-time fund formation, infrastructure PPP structuring, and blended finance advisory. Its senior leadership team brings decades of experience across African public and private capital markets, project finance, and investment management.
OAC also spearheads ARIF’s fundraising strategy, with a goal to raise over $500 million in blended capital from domestic and international institutional investors, DFIs, diaspora investors, and sovereign wealth funds. The firm has forged strong relationships with key stakeholders such as East African Development Bank, UNDP, AfDB, and Africa50.
Ortus Africa Capital is committed to innovation, localization, and alignment with national development priorities and the SDGs. The firm combines technical infrastructure expertise with investment discipline to unlock Africa’s infrastructure renaissance.
Find out more at www.ortusafricacapital.com
ARIF operates through national-level funds like HIF–Uganda, enabling on-the-ground alignment with policy goals while unlocking regional economies of scale.
ARIFund is structured as a Master Fund with a network of country-level Sub-Funds, each tailored to local contexts and regulated under national law. This design enables seamless capital deployment into impactful infrastructure
ARIFund is
structured as a Master Fund with a network of country-level Sub-Funds,
each tailored to local contexts and regulated under national law. This design
enables seamless capital deployment into impactful infrastructure projects
while ensuring alignment with local priorities, regulatory compliance, and risk
management.
Each investment vehicle is:
· Governed
by strong fiduciary frameworks at both the Master and Country Fund levels
· Backed
by regional insight and local partnerships to enhance origination,
execution, and monitoring
· Structured
to accommodate multiple capital types, including equity, debt, blended
finance, and Islamic instruments
· Accessible
to diverse investor classes, including institutional LPs, DFIs, diaspora
investors, and philanthropic capital
Through thisplatform approach, ARIFund channels global capital directly into shovel-read high-impact projects – bridging the gap between opportunity and execution
across Africa’s infrastructure landscape.
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