# Mike Brooks

> Mike Brooks is a startup investor at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Inspired Evolution Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inspired-evolution-investment-management)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-brooks/18/90a/5a7

Mike Brooks is a startup investor at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Mike is a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Mike is also an Investment Committee member of the Evolution One Fund. Mike’s 25 years of broad and deep expertise in many aspects of the financial markets, structured risk management products and integrated financial abilities will be applied tothe core investment process of the fund. Mike was an executive director, co-founder and shareholder of Coronation Capital Limited, whose core operations included structured finance, equity arbitrage, private equity, treasury and risk management and property finance.

## About Inspired Evolution Investment Management

VC Fund · Cape Town, South Africa

Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa.

4 contacts available at Inspired Evolution Investment Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mike Brooks | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-brooks-2 |
| Anthony Ngugi | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-ngugi |
| Christopher Clarke | Managing Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-clarke-4938 |
| Wayne Keast | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayne-keast |

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