High response. Aligned partnerships. Sustainable and transformative value creation.
Overview
At Vuna Partners we are driven to create superior long-term value to the benefit of our investors, management and employees of our investees, strategic partners and the wider society.
To this end Vuna Partners is selective in its investment approach, partnering with high-quality privately-owned companies strategically positioned to contribute and benefit from the growth opportunities presented by our country’s nuanced economic and social landscape.
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Vuna Partners' strategic execution is supported by
Empowered Capital
We are positioned as a 100% black owned investment manager with Level 1 Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (“B-BBEE”) accreditation. We provide empowered equity risk capital to our investees that is so critical to unlocking growth and value within the SA context.
Diverse and collective private equity experience
Our high response investment team is drawn from diverse backgrounds, yielding depth of expertise, a wealth of intellectual capital, a deep understanding of the risks and opportunities inherent within our economy, and experience of successfully investing through diverse economic cycles.
Selective investment approach
Astute and well-informed investment selection, with a specific emphasis on businesses that talk to sector sustainability and transformation and demonstrate high growth and market leadership potential, strong cash flow generation, and well-balanced management teams.
Bespoke partnership model
Strong long-term partnership model focused on highly competent, passionate and visionary management teams aligned to Vuna Partners’ spirit of sustainable and transformative growth, and a network of carefully selected high impact strategic operational partners aligned with Vuna Partners’ value creation principles
Culture
The Vuna Partners' way is one of driving a strong ethos even within our own organisation.
We understand that strong seamless partnerships are built on each doing their part to drive our critical high response approach, with the goal of effecting positive shifts in patterns within our investment field and ultimately our economic and social environment. We are individually and collectively passionate and ambitious in executing on our brand essence through a culture of distinct professionalism, entrepreneurial flair and creativity, respect, integrity, teamwork and determination.
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Mission
High Response. Aligned partnerships. Sustainable and transformative value creation.
We create sustainable and transformative growth in our investments through a high response approach and bespoke partnership principles.
Our core mission is unlocking sustainable value in the mid-market space through strategic and enduring partnerships between our highly responsive team and effective management teams and strategic operational partners. Our specific underpin to transformative and sustainable investing is the recognition of a broad spectrum of stakeholders within the environments our businesses operate in.
Vision
Superior long-term value creation enshrined in investment principles that are part of the solution to the changing patterns of South Africa’s economic, social and governance landscape.
Our name, Vuna, symbolises the spirit of harvesting the fruits of partnerships after building businesses of the future that are fit for the purpose of our nuanced and evolving South African landscape.
100%
Black owned
Empowerment credentials
Vuna Partners understands that broad demographic representation within the South African business landscape is a key pillar to sustainable and transformative growth.
Through our investment, we provide empowered ownership credentials, and seek to support our businesses in furthering transformation with an emphasis on skills development, management representation and preferential procurement.
Vuna Partners is 100% black owned and controlled in line with paragraph 3.10 of Statement 100 of the B-BBEE Codes.