VPB News

By: Martin Abbugao, 12 April 2009 03:36 GMT, Agence France Presse
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2009 All reproduction and presentation rights reserved.

Once every six weeks, fund manager Anthony Siwawa hops on a plane from Botswana for a 10-hour flight to Singapore, where ...

We have posted two new CEDA newsletters -- First Hand Biz Information. Issue 13 provides profiles of some of VPB's portfolio companies. Click here  to download it. Issue 14 provides a snapshot of VPB's strategic relationship wit...

Market Africa is a regular segment on CNBC Africa a financial channel running on MultiChoice's DSTV television network. VPB has become a regular commentator on Botswana's commercial developments through appearences by Associate Lesego Selotate and Chief Investment Officer Ndaba Mpofu.

Botswana is not likely to face milk shortages this year, an investor in the dairy industry has said.

In a statement released on yesterday the investment partners of Delta Dairies, VPB said that after the acute shortages of last year will not be experienced again. The private equity and ve...

Anthony Siwawa, the managing director of VPB - a local private equity and venture capital firm - has been appointed to the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) board.

In a st...

Effective 1st April this year, PG Timbers and Builders Merchants Botswana (BMB) will join the market as the second largest building materials suppliers – after Builders World Botswana.
 
This was confirmed by equity partners in both companies – Venture Partners Botswana (VPB), this past we...

The country’s largest private equity firm – Venture Partners Botswana (VPB) – is optimistic of netting a more lucrative fund. This follows the depletion of the first US$40 million fund, which they managed on behalf of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency Venture Capital Fund (CVCF). The fu...