Vantage Capital
Business Investment in Cape Town

Vantage Risk Capital, a subsidiary of Vantage Capital Group, has successfully raised a R1 billion Mezzanine Fund from local and international investors.
Vantage Capital commenced business in 2001 as a black owned and managed private equity fund manager.

The objective of Vantage Capital Investments is to identify and structure opportunities for Vantage Capital and other BEE entities to participate in genuine broad-based empowerment. Vantage Capital executives take a hands-on role to identify and canvas potential BEE participants and structure optimum arrangements for all transaction participants with emphasis on realistic pricing, and optimum levels of debt and equity funding to ensure effective transfer of economic ownership to BEE entities. Vantage Capital Investments applies the group philosophy of hands-on involvement that adds real value (contributions going deep rather than spread thin). Therefore, it targets key strategic transactions that enable the group to play a meaningful role. Areas of focus are: Financial Services, Resources, Construction, Manufacturing and Services. Comcorp was established in 1993 and began trading as a financial services business focused on bridging finance in the residential property market. Kwikspace is the largest and most diverse manufacturer of factory-built accommodation in Africa. The company has been building and exporting a wide variety of units for more than 30 years to many parts of Africa, South America and the Middle East, supplying customers in the private, industrial, commercial and government sectors. Kwikspace has factories in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban with sales offices situated in most major cities throughout South Africa. Kwikspace has been very active in the education sector, having delivered circa 2000 units to be utilised as classrooms to the department of education and the department of public works. Over the past year, Kwikspace has also enjoyed success in the mining sector having delivered on large projects in the form of mining camps for some of the largest mining companies in the world. Kwikspace has exported its products to over 30 countries in Africa. Diana is a senior associate at Vantage and her primary focus is the origination, assessment, structuring, execution and post-transaction monitoring of the mezzanine fund investments. He assists David Kornik with originating and assessing transactions in South Africa with a specific focus on the Cape region. He assists Johnny Jones with originating and assessing transactions in both the South African and Nigerian markets. He assists with originating and assessing transactions in both West African and Maghreb francophone markets. With its ubiquitous pink vans driving around middle-class suburbs, Vumatel is a distinctive brand in the two cities where it operates, Johannesburg and Cape Town.