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Private Markets · Global Perspectives · Emerging Opportunity

Rama Sycamore brings a global perspective to private markets across East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

We connect fund managers, family offices, development finance institutions and other institutional investors in New York, London and the Gulf with emerging opportunities in private credit, private equity, venture capital and special situations. And we help the companies behind those opportunities raise capital on terms that work.

We don't publish generic country reports. We find the deals, check them on the ground, and give you the judgment calls a spreadsheet can't make.

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Why we exist

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African private markets have grown faster than the infrastructure built to serve them. The capital is there: DFI mandates, blended-finance vehicles, diaspora funds, regional private equity, and a maturing venture scene in Nairobi, Lagos and Cairo.

What's missing are the tools investors take for granted elsewhere. Reliable comparables. Verified management teams. Good local counsel. An honest view of political and currency risk. Where these exist at all, they rarely come in a form a New York investment committee can use.

We built Rama Sycamore to close that gap. Not with another research subscription, but with a team on the ground that combines a global macro view with deep local knowledge, and that has sat down with the founders, sponsors, lenders and restructuring specialists who make these deals happen.

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About

Who we are

Rama Sycamore is an investment strategy and transaction firm focused on African private markets. We act for investors and companies. We do not invest our own capital, so our only interest is getting the deal right.

  1. We source.
  2. We translate, in more than one sense.
  3. We cover the whole capital stack.
  4. We're paid for results.
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What We Do

We work across five areas:

  • Private credit and structured finance.
  • Private equity.
  • Venture capital.
  • Distressed assets.
  • Special situations.
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  1. Deal sourcing and structuring
  2. Market intelligence
  3. Due diligence and on-the-ground support
  4. Deal-flow subscriptions

Coverage

East Africa is our core market. We work there every day, through our team in Nairobi and our partners across the region. Beyond it, partner relationships give our clients access to the continent's other major private markets.

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Insights

Note from the founder

I spent most of my career in New York, in investment banking, hedge fund management, wealth management and private capital markets. Over those years I watched the same pattern repeat.

Parfait MutimuraFounder, Rama Sycamore

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Questions and Answers

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Whether you are considering an African allocation for the first time or already have exposure and want better information from the ground, we would rather have a direct conversation than send you a brochure.

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