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Synergos Master Funds are multi-asset investment fund vehicles that offer investors access to a diversified portfolio of high-growth opportunities across multiple sectors through a single Master Fund structure. This approach mitigates traditional investment risk through diversification while maximizing exposure to Africa’s most promising early-stage ventures.

Synergos has recently launched fundraising efforts for our $25M Seed VC Fund, a forthcoming $50M Growth PE Fund, and a $25M Real Estate Fund, and is actively engaging with prospective Limited Partners.  

Through investment in any of the Master Funds, LPs gain access to a high-conviction pipeline, robust co-investment rights, and the potential for superior returns from Africa’s next generation of scalable ventures.

In parallel to its Master Funds, Synergos also curates a set of direct investment opportunities via Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for investors seeking targeted exposure. Single-asset Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) offer a simple fund structure for investors who wish to invest in "deal-by-deal" investment opportunities, on their own or together with other investors, but where each investor has the discretion to choose which opportunity to invest in and is not bound by a multi portfolio fund structure where fund managers make investment decisions on behalf of LP investors in the Fund.

We have a number of dedicated investment opportunities in specific investment vehicles that are aimed at investors who are looking for specific, focused investment opportunities on a deal-by-deal basis.

For smaller investments from US$10K and upwards, Syndicate Investors are offered the opportunity to co-invest on a deal-by-deal basis in some of the best venture capital investment opportunities which Silicon Valley has to offer. Investors get access to VU’s large deal flow funnel, investment team for due diligence, and investment evaluation. Syndicate investors are offered the ability to co-invest with each other, all while having 100% control over what investments they wish to make.

Corporations are faced with disruption risk from competitors in their industries that they do not even know about. Corporate Venture Capital offers corporations the opportunity to look around the corner and see the future, but it’s not easy for corporations to establish their own internal innovation/venture teams. 

Synergos supports Corporate clients across the full innovation spectrum by providing corporations with a highly flexible, affordable, and easy approach to their innovation needs, as well as identifying new opportunities for innovation and uncovering blind spots. Synergos and Corporate Venture as a Service (CVaaS) become your external innovation partner & venture capital team. Corporation defines vertical areas of interest and which tools in the innovation toolbox to focus on.

CVaaS provides all the strategic benefits of a large, experienced, and incentivised venture team with none of the cost or administrative complexity. Synergos identifies early-stage disruptors and innovators in/near your sector and partners with you to do continuous sourcing and diligence of strategic opportunities in your key sectors, giving you a substantial advantage over your competitors.

The African continent desperately needs more investors and investments to be made on the continent. An increase in investment funds will, however, only start to flow to the continent if the VC/PE ecosystem is grown and expanded. The VU Investor Accelerator Program is the only program of its kind due to its scalability and global reach, and supports the growth and expansion of the investment ecosystem in Africa in tangible ways.

Synergos is in partnership with VU, establishing a dedicated Africa desk at VU’s Investor Accelerator for candidates from the African continent. The program aims to further develop and expand the African venture capital ecosystem and to increase the investor focus and flow of investment funds to the continent.

The Africa team will consist of ~5 Students per quarter, which will form part of VU’s Accelerator programs per cohort. The impact of this will be that if 5 students per quarter are supported, then 20 new African fund managers will be graduating from the program each year.