Helios Investment Partners is the largest Africa-focused private investment firm, with a record that spans creating start-ups to providing established companies with growth capital and expertise.

Led and predominantly staffed by African professionals with the language skills and cultural affinity to engage with local entrepreneurs, managers and intermediaries on the continent, Helios leverages its local and global networks, identifying businesses opportunities and structuring proprietary transactions around them. The firm's unique combination of a deep knowledge of the Africa operating environment, a singular commitment to the region and a proven capability to manage complexity, is reflected in the firm's diverse portfolio of growing market leading businesses and its position as the partner of choice for multinational corporations.

Helios was founded in 2004 to focus exclusively on private investment in Africa. Since its establishment, Helios has raised three private equity funds. Helios also took over the Modern Africa Fund in 2004, rationalizing and fully exiting the portfolio by 2007.

In 2015, Helios established Helios Credit, a dedicated credit platform which also invests and manages the TriLinc Global Impact Fund's sub-Saharan term loan portfolio.