AfricInvest Group is wrapping up an eight-year bet on Ivorian logistics. The pan-African investment platform has started its exit from SIPO Holding, the company that controls Groupe Centaures, a transport and logistics group based in CĂ´te d'Ivoire. AfricInvest first backed Centaures in 2018, putting in 12.2 million euros through its AfricInvest III fund, and it has now reached an agreement with the founding Delsuc family to fully exit by the end of 2026.
The financial details are slim. AfricInvest and Centaures have not disclosed the valuation, the stake size, or the full terms of the exit. What is visible is a 16 million dollar facility that Centaures secured from BluePeak Private Capital in June 2025, part of which has already been used to partially buy out AfricInvest's position.
This exit is not a one-off. In February, AfricInvest wrapped up its stake in Zambia's Entrepreneurs Financial Centre after it was acquired by another financial institution. In June 2025, it exited AFG Holding, an Ivorian banking group it had helped expand into a multi-country operation. That same month, its European affiliate exited Mathevon, a French industrial company it had held for roughly eight years.
The pattern is hard to ignore. AfricInvest is clearly moving out of several long-held positions at once. What investors are quietly waiting to find out is whether those exits are actually delivering the returns they were promised.
Originally published by TechCabal.