Investment Summary

Satya Capital and TPG Invest In Wilderness Holdings

On July 12, 2018, private equity firms Satya Capital and TPG invested in leisure company Wilderness Holdings

Investment Highlights
  • This is Satya Capital’s 1st and TPG’s 3rd transaction in the Leisure sector.
  • This is Satya Capital’s 1st and TPG’s 1st transaction in Botswana.

Investment Summary

Date 2018-07-12
Target Wilderness Holdings
Sector Leisure
Investor(s) Satya Capital
TPG
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Wilderness Holdings

Gaborone, Botswana
Wilderness Holdings is an ecotourism group with operations in seven African countries and a mission to conserve and restore African wilderness and wildlife. Wilderness Safaris and the Governors’ Camp Collection operate camps and safaris in some of Africa’s best wildlife and wilderness areas across seven different countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Wilderness Holdings was founded in 1983 and is based in Gaborone, Botswana.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor
DESCRIPTION

Satya Capital is a private investment firm focused on providing long-term growth capital to companies throughout Africa. The Firm targets investments from $20 to $100 million dollars and invests in a broad range of sectors including consumer, retail, healthcare, technology, media, telecommunications, and financial services. Satya works in partnership with TPG Growth, the middle-market and growth equity investment platform of TPG Capital. Satya Capital is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 8
Sector: Leisure M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 4 of 4
Country: Botswana M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-05-14 Cellulant

Nairobi, Kenya

Cellulant is a Pan African payments company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional and local merchants. Cellulant was founded in 2004 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-26 Ison Xperiences

Nairobi, Kenya

iSON Xperiences provides a flexible enablement platform for businesses that need help scaling up their workforce, daily business operations, or debt collection solutions, or that want to expand their footprint in Africa. The company's expertise spans telecoms, BFSi, energy, media, government, retail, aviation, and e-commerce, partnering with brands and startups. Ison Xperiences was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Investor

TPG

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 296.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TPG Capital is a global, mega-sized private investment firm that manages a family of funds focused on private equity, real estate, venture capital, public equity and debt investing. TPG invests in opportunities across a broad range of industries and geographies. TPG generally seeks to invest in established businesses that can benefit from the Firm's operational experience and connections. Industries of interest include consumer, retail, healthcare, industrials, digital media, natural resources, energy, real estate, technology, and software. TPG was formerly known as Texas Pacific Group and was originally established in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price. The Firm is based in Forth Worth, Texas with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 333 of 451
Sector: Leisure M&A 3 of 5
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 48 of 74
Country: Botswana M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 23 of 34
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-07-01 Crunch

New York, New York, United States

Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of 'No Judgments.' Crunch serves a fitness community for all types of people, with all types of goals, exercising all different ways; working out at the same place together. Crunch was founded in 1989 and is based in New York City.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-07-13 Greenhouse

New York, New York, United States

Greenhouse is a best-of-breed provider of next-gen talent acquisition software enabling companies to plan, source, assess, hire, and onboard candidates. Greenhouse was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

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