# Helios Investment Partners

> Helios Investment Partners is a VC fund backing Financial Services and Energy. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last fund: Jul 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helios-investment-partners
- Website: http://heliosinvestment.com

Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of going concerns, recapitalization, mezzanine, growth capital for private enterprises, restructurings joint ventures, startups; either green-field or brownfield; and the majority or blocking-minority structured investments in listed entities. It seeksto invest in the telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, and Agro-allied sectors. The firm prefers to invest in Africa with a focus on Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $200 million in an individual transaction. The firm prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Helios Investment Partners LLP was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$39M |
| Series B | $22M–$65M |
| Private Equity | $45M–$179M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 12 | 22% |
| Energy | 8 | 15% |
| Banking | 8 | 15% |
| Payments | 8 | 15% |
| FinTech | 6 | 11% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 20 | 36% |
| Series A | 5 | 9% |
| Series B | 5 | 9% |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 9% |
| Seed | 4 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 13 | 24% |
| United States | 6 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 9% |
| Egypt | 3 | 5% |
| Kenya | 3 | 5% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fope Adelowo | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fope-adelowo |
| Babatunde Soyoye | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/babatunde-soyoye |
| Christina Drews | Partner, Chief Operating Officer, Member of Executive Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-drews |
| Dennis Aluanga | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-aluanga |
| Evelina Olago | Investor Relations Senior Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evelina-olago |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SolarAfrica | SolarAfrica provides solar finance solutions through a power purchase agreement. The CAPEX-free solution encourages businesses to go green with the advantage of reducing electricity costs. Their strive to make saving with solar simple and accessible. The solar solution enables business owners to reduce monthly electricity costs and become moresustainable organizations. Offer a finance solution that delivers savings to businesses. solar service provides peace of mind that the system on the roof is always maintained, monitored, insured, and performing at its optimum to provide customer savings. Benefits of no CAPEX investment, maintenance, and operations included, insurance included, reduced electricity bills, performance monitoring, and renewable energy. | $91.6M | Private Equity | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| HPVideo | HPVideo.io is a decentralized, wallet-driven AI video generation platform on the BNB Chain, allowing users to create videos using multiple AI models without submitting personal data. | $3M | Seed | Dec 22, 2025 |  |
| Pave Bank | The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank | $39M | Series A | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| SUN Mobility | Sun Mobility is a leading provider of universal energy infrastructure and services to accelerate mass electric vehicle usage. | $60M |  | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Galatea Bio | Galatea Bio, a US-based biotechnology company was founder by Carlos Bustamante, Nicholas Katsanis and Alexander Ioannidis. Our mission is to drive groundbreaking discoveries in healthcare by pairing genetic diversity with cutting-edge data analytics. Our passion is fueled by a focus on populations historically underrepresented in genetics research.We achieve this by leveraging our world-class clinical network and biobank, cutting-edge algorithms, and innovative analyses to discover and validate new tests, treatments, and cures that will improve the lives of all. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Conduit | Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps than traditional payment rails.Why choose Conduit? With the Conduit payments platform, your entire team has the tools they need to move money between USD and multiple local Latam currencies. Our dashboard issimple to use, with better transparency and faster, more exact quotes than alternatives. | $30M | Series A | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Raya Foods | They supply you frozen vegetables and fruits with a superior quality in both local and international markets. Their large supply of raw materials enable us to be flexible and agile in processing orders.They offer customized specifications: cut size, mixes, degree of blanching and many other. | $40M | Private Equity | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| M2P Fintech | M2P Fintech specializes in building financial infrastructure and offers a wide range of solutions across payments, lending, and banking. | $31.8M | Secondary Market | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| M2P Fintech | M2P Fintech specializes in building financial infrastructure and offers a wide range of solutions across payments, lending, and banking. | $70M | Series D | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Paymob | Paymob is a regional digital payments enabler that builds payments infrastructue technologies empowering the underserved with access to financial services. Paymob is bridging the financial inclusion gap in MEA region by enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from the power of digital payments and what it unlocks. Paymob was founded in 2015and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. | $22M | Series B | Sep 11, 2024 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Checkout.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/checkout-com) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Helios Investment Partners invest in?

Helios Investment Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, Energy and Banking startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Helios Investment Partners's check size?

Helios Investment Partners typically joins rounds of $4M–$39M at Series A, $22M–$65M at Series B and $45M–$179M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Helios Investment Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Helios Investment Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Helios Investment Partners?

The team at Helios Investment Partners includes Fope Adelowo (Principal), Babatunde Soyoye (Managing Partner) and Christina Drews (Partner, Chief Operating Officer, Member of Executive Committee), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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