A real response
Within two days of your first message you are talking to a decision maker. Not a form, not a funnel, not a junior analyst.
An African acquisition partnership
We buy exceptional African businesses.
A fair offer in seven days. A close in a month.
Paid in the currency of your choice.
48hrfirst response
7 daysto a firm offer
1 monthto close
Our thesis
Africa's best companies deserve world-class exits.
Afriquire exists to make it simple for the continent's best companies to achieve the exit of their dreams. Most founders never get a real offer. The ones who do are made to wait a year, drip-fed through data rooms, and squeezed on price at the finish line.
We built the opposite. We move at the speed founders build: an honest conversation, a fair valuation, and a fast, funded close. And when the deal is done, what you built keeps growing, with your people still in the building.
0+years of combined deal experience
0countries and counting
0businesses backed and built
The pace
Speed is respect.
Your time is the one asset we cannot buy back for you. So we do not waste it.
A firm offer
We underwrite fast and we stand behind our number. No fishing expeditions, no offers designed to be renegotiated later.
A funded close
Signed, funded, done. Money lands in the currency you choose, in the account you choose, while your competitors' lawyers are still scheduling calls.
Johannesburg, South Africa
What we look for
Good to great.
Never bad to good.
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Revenue traction
Real customers paying real money, with a curve that points the right way. We take strong businesses further. Turnarounds are not our trade.
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Product-market fit
Customers who would genuinely miss you if you disappeared tomorrow. If your market pulls you forward, we will fund the pace.
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Teams that move fast
We are part of the QTA Group. QTA stands for Quick To Act, and we mean it. We back teams who build and iterate at our speed.
Sector agnostic. Conviction led. Active across the continent.
Ways to sell
Your exit, your terms.
There is no single right way to sell a company. We structure around what you want your life to look like afterwards.
The clean exit
100% buyout
You hand over the keys and walk away proud, paid and free. We protect your legacy, keep your team, and carry the name forward.
- Full payment at close
- Your team keeps their jobs
- Handover on your schedule
Stay at the helm
We buy, you keep running it
Take money off the table and keep doing what you love, without the personal risk. Your name stays on the door and you share in the upside you keep creating.
- Liquidity now, salary and upside after
- Full operational independence
- Our capital and network behind you
The partnership
Majority stake plus growth capital
We take the majority, invest in growth, and agree the path to your full exit up front. You choose the timeline. We build the value together.
- Growth capital from day one
- Earn-out that rewards performance
- Exit path agreed in writing
Paid your way. Dollars, pounds, euros, naira, shillings, rand, or a blend. Your money, your call.
The process
One month,
five steps.
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01
Day 1
Say hello
Tell us about your business through the form below. A decision maker replies within 48 hours.
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Days 2 to 5
A real conversation
Your numbers, your story, and what you want from a sale. We align on valuation before anyone drafts a document.
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Day 7
The offer
A firm written offer within seven days of our first conversation. The number we say is the number we pay.
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Weeks 2 to 3
Light-touch diligence
Weeks, not months. We verify what matters and skip the death-by-data-room routine.
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Day 30
Close and celebrate
Funds land in about a month from hello, in the currency of your choice. Then we get to work on the next chapter.
Lagos, Nigeria
The scout programme
Know a business
we should look at?
Scout a deal for us and we will make it worth your while. We pay healthy finders fees on every completed acquisition. All you have to do is make the intro.
Refer a deal
Start the conversation
Tell us what you built.
Four short steps, two minutes of your time, and a reply from a decision maker within 48 hours. Nothing here commits you to anything.