Vertis Capital

Vertis Capital

Vertis Capital is a $30M private equity fund headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, focused on capturing value in the foundational economic backbone of West Africa. The fund targets five core sectors: food & agtech, financial inclusion, energy, trade & logistics, and healthcare. Its strategy centers on secondary and growth equity investments in businesses that form the essential backbone of West African economies, including food systems, financial rails, and energy networks. Vertis Capital integrates gender-lens investing as a primary source of alpha, actively targeting women-led and women-serving businesses it identifies as systematically undervalued. The firm deploys a flexible toolkit of instruments including equity, mezzanine, revenue-based financing, leasing, and Islamic finance structures. Climate resilience scoring is embedded in its investment process, with priority given to portfolio companies with climate-smart operations. Vertis Capital operates on Numa AI, a proprietary investment orchestration platform providing real-time intelligence and automated LP reporting for African private equity.