Warren Merwe
Chief Operating Officer @ Vantage Capital
Johannesburg, South Africa
Warren Merwe is a private equity investor at Vantage Capital in Johannesburg focused on Banking and Finance. Warren van der Merwe is the Chief Operating Officer at Vantage Capital Group. Warren van der Merwe is the Chief Operating Officer of the group as well as of Vantage Capital Investments, Vantage Capital Fund Management, and Vantage Mezzanine (PTY) Ltd. He was formerly the Chief Financial Officer. He focuses on mezzanine investments. He wasresponsible for its reporting. He joined the firm as its Chief Financial Officer in 2007 and is responsible for the financial management of the firm’s proprietary management activities at Vantage Capital Investments and is also responsible for risk management and portfolio monitoring and plays a significant role in the assessment of all new investments. He served a year of academic articles at the University of Witwatersrand and completed remaining of his articles at Arthur Anderson before starting his banking career with Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. Warren van der Merwe’s first position was an Accounts Executive in the Corporate Banking Division, managing bank’s relationships with its certain banking and mining clients. He then assumed a new business development role and led a team of transactors in this new business team. During this time, Warren van der Merwe conducted various bank funding deals including several leveraged finance transactions. His last position was in the bank’s acquisition finance team, where he successfully concluded a number of leveraged finance transactions, before joining Vantage Capital. He represents Vantage on the board of Landmark. Warren van der Merwe served a year of academic articles at the University of Witwatersrand. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Master of Commerce, B.Comm, and Bachelors in Accounting, with honors, from Wits.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Warren Merwe invests in
Stages Warren Merwe invests in
Countries Warren Merwe invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 1 (50%)
- Finance 1 (50%)
- Service Industry 1 (50%)
- Financial Services 1 (50%)
Stage
- Private Equity 1 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (50%)
Country
- Nigeria 1 (50%)
- South Africa 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Procera Group
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Procera is a debt recovery solution provider. Procera has evolved into an integrated BPO services business that provides support to its clients through multiple various brands across the customer life cycle. | $18.6M / Private Equity / Apr 08, 2024 | |
| Purple Capital Partners Limited is a specialist investment firm with business areas in Principal Investment, Private Equity and Real Estate. Purple seeks to offer a range of alternative investment opportunities for itself, institutional and private investors. Purple provides thought – through, risk calculated opportunities with positive alphareturns using an investor – manager interest aligned structure. | $12.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 21, 2017 |
About Vantage Capital
Vantage Capital commenced business in 2001 as a black owned and managed private equity fund manager. Vantage Capital remains primarily focused on private equity investment activities for its own account and for third-party funds and is one of the only remaining black controlled, independent private equity firms in SA.
Vantage Capital Contacts
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Elliot Hayes
Special Partner
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Warren Merwe
Chief Operating Officer
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Yaw Keteku
Associate Partner
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What does Warren Merwe invest in?
Warren Merwe invests primarily in Banking, Finance and Service Industry startups, most often at Private Equity and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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