Open Capital Advisors (OCA) is a financial services and strategy consulting firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. They support high potential companies, entrepreneurs, investors, value chains, and scalable approaches to economic growth & poverty reduction across East & Southern Africa. They work with their clients to lay a strong foundation for growth, prepare adequate financial structures, and raise capital from a range of local and international investors.
Their team of East Africans, Europeans, and Americans bring experience in private equity, management consulting, SME senior management, law, and accounting at major firms including Bain & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, IFC, Hogan Lovells, McKinsey & Company and The World Bank.
As they move into their fifth year of operations, they have completed more than 100 client engagements across 9 East and Southern African countries. They have a wide investor network that includes nearly 120 private equity funds, family offices, angel investors, and institutions headquartered in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
What They Do
For highly scalable businesses, they provide intensive, operationally-focused advisory services to help plan and achieve growth. Practically, they help create month-to-month long-term growth plans, implement new systems and processes, perform analyses to appropriately price products and evaluate partnerships, plan new market entries, create marketing and distribution strategies, prioritize opportunities, and plan team structure and staff incentives, among others. In many cases, their business clients require capital to achieve their growth targets. In these cases, they work with businesses to attract the right investors and structure capital raises. They never seek to manage or invest their own capital – they work closely with a large and growing investor network to channel funds available to deserving opportunities.
For investors, multinationals, donors, and large organizations, they leverage their knowledge of African operations to create innovative structures and strategies, manage existing portfolios, analyse value chain opportunities, perform in-depth market assessments, and help answer difficult strategic questions, with their focus on actionable, tangible recommendations.
