27four Investment Managers
South African asset manager with over $5bn AUM making direct venture and co-investments through its Nebula strategy, alongside ETFs, fund hosting and fiduciary services.
27four Investment Managers makes direct venture investments in technology-driven companies through its Nebula strategy, alongside co-investments and broader private-market activity. Its private-market arm also runs funds supporting black-owned businesses, part of the group's transformation mandate. The firm does not publicly disclose investment stage, cheque size or portfolio composition.
The venture activities sit within a South African financial services group offering sustainable investment management and fiduciary solutions, exchange-traded funds, fund-hosting services for third-party managers and funds, and in-house investment research. The group reports more than $5 billion in assets under management and serves retirement funds, medical aid funds, government and public-sector institutions, insurers, advisers and individual and family wealth.
Investment practice is described as integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into due diligence, with active stewardship and engagement with investee companies and the pursuit of measurable social and environmental outcomes alongside financial returns. The name references 27 April 1994, the date of South Africa's first democratic elections; the stated emphasis is on local market knowledge, long-term partnerships and an inclusive, sustainable economic future.