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Aureos Background
Aureos Capital Ltd, established in July 2001, is a private equity fund management company, domiciled in Mauritius, which specialises in providing expansion and buy-out capital to unlisted mid-cap businesses across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Since 2001, Aureos has increased its funds under management to approximately US$ 1.2 billion and extended its geographical footprint to over 50 emerging markets, by establishing 16 regional private equity funds. Investors in the Aureos funds are CDC, Norfund, FMO and more than 70 other institutional investors including international finance institutions, commercial banks, (local) pension funds, fund of funds, HNWI, family offices and foundations.
Since the beginning of 2001 we have launched:
- Aureos Central America Fund (US$36.3m committed capital)
- Aureos East Africa Fund (US$40m committed capital)
- Aureos West Africa Fund (US$50m committed capital)
- Aureos Southern Africa Fund (US$50m committed capital)
- Aureos South Asia Fund I (US$10m committed capital)
- Aureos South Asia Fund (US$122.4m committed capital)
- Aureos South-East Asia Fund (US$91m committed capital)
- Aureos China Fund (US$36.5m committed capital)
- Kula Fund II (Pacific Islands) (US$22m committed capital)
- Emerge Central America Growth Fund (US$21m committed capital)
- Aureos Malaysia Fund (US$25m committed capital)
- Aureos Brunei Fund (US$25m committed capital)
- Aureos Central Asia Fund (US$70m committed capital)
- Aureos Latin America Fund (US$181.8m committed capital)
- Aureos Africa Fund (US$381m committed capital)
- Africa Health Fund (US$57m committed capital)
(See Our Vision in the What We Do section for details of our expansion plans)