Aquifon Investments Aims To Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses
Aquifon Investments Aims To Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses. Aquifon Investments invests in privately held South African companies at most stages of the development cycle, from early stage through to pre-listing, including management buy-outs.
Being entrepreneurial by nature, Aquifon is opportunistic and provides more than just money. Aquifon acts as consultants and business developers, business strategists, corporate advisors and confidants, giving support to the Investee company’s management team as well as its strategic partners. When it is occupying a position on the board, Aquifon plays an active role in each of its investments providing the experience and unique network of contacts to help take the Investee company to the next stage of their development.
Crucial to Aquifon’s relationship is a culture fit. Each investment is viewed as a partnership and as such all parties involved must be comfortable and able to operate together. Specifically, it looks for entrepreneurs who show extraordinary determination and passion for their vision, entrepreneurs who possess drive and energy to realise their goals, the resolute, the creative spirits, the underdogs, the determined, the outsiders, the defiant, the independent thinkers, the fighters and the true believers who have proven that they can make it happen.
Sylvester Dzenga Sylvester is the co-founder and CEO of Aquifon investments. He is responsible for the effective running of all facets of the business. Sylvester has a proven executive management track record and over 10 years of experience driving sales growth in all acquisitions made. Sylvester has earned a Bcom degree with Honours in Corporate Finance and Investments from the University of Witwatersrand.
Aquifon focuses on the Investment rather than the specific market sectors, investing in companies with strong management, companies that can scale, companies that have a sales efficiency, proven teams and track records and showing revenues in excess of R1 million. The company is comfortable with the rough imperfection of a new venture. It helps founders from day zero, when the DNA of their businesses first takes shape.
