Transformative West African Businesses
Business in Africa is flourishing. Demeter generates robust financial returns and transformative social impact by creating, operating and investing in businesses that are leaders in their fields.
About Demeter Holdings
We are a venture builder, scaler, and operator across West Africa. We build businesses that become top tier players in their sectors. These create prosperity inclusively, delivering profitability and transforming sectors at scale.
Demeter Holdings is a Holdings company headquartered in London with companies in the UK, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Sierra Leone. Our commercial roots go back to 2008.
Our Approach
We seek to drive social and environmental impact through profitable, growing businesses. We operate in high-impact, high growth sectors that have the capacity to generate significant financial returns and deliver impact at scale. We believe profitability drives growth, and impact drives longevity.
Our focus is on the agricultural and technology sectors in West Africa. We unite global and local talent, capital and resources to bring best practice into a localised setting, and solve hard challenges. Any business we build will be or become a top tier player in its space.
Each business is different, and more information about our specific businesses can be found below or on its website.
Portfolio
Demeter Holdings invests in extraordinary businesses in West Africa.
Our Team
Demeter’s team is made up of industry professionals with a deep knowledge of local markets, and backgrounds in Trading, Operations and Management Consulting. Demeter is Headquartered in London and has offices in Ghana and Sierra Leone.
Industries we invest in
Demeter Holdings group companies supply both goods and services to clients in West Africa and worldwide. Whilst we would look at anything that fits our mission and our mantra, we focus on sectors where we have an advantage.
Agricultural Sector
Our current portfolio includes holdings across the value chain, in primary agriculture, processing, agricultural inputs and agricultural trade. We will look at any investment in any part of the agricultural space.
Carbon Credits
Carbon credits represent an exciting opportunity to rebalance the financial inequity between rich, polluting countries, and poor, greener countries. Our flagship company in this sector is Oko Environmental Ltd, where we manage a world-class asset in Sierra Leone for its carbon credits by being early pioneers of assisted natural regeneration.
Services & Technology
We are particularly excited by the rapid growth of the technology sector internationally our flagship company in this industry is Aya Data Ltd (ADL), West Africa's pre-eminent Artificial Intelligence company, driving growth through AI across the region and the world.