Building Tomorrow's Economy

investing in the future of Egypt and North Africa

We Take the Long View

Growth, Impact, Empowerment. We are conviction-led investors who believe that sustainable success stems from long-term growth — and that growth demands more than just capital. It requires time, operational engagement, and a deep alignment with our partners. As catalytic investors, we partner with visionary entrepreneurs, experienced management teams, and family-owned businesses to build and scale distinctive small and middle-market companies with purpose-driven missions, creating sector important companies in the process. Our objective is to deliver to our investors strong, risk-adjusted returns while driving sustainable job creation and expanding access to essential goods and services for low- to middle-income consumers across Egypt and North Africa. We focus on high-impact sectors — including consumer goods & services, education, healthcare, and financial services — where we see enduring potential for long-term value creation. MORE

Building Better Businesses

Building a company is hard. We are a strategic partner to entrepreneurs and management teams who have turned their visions into reality. Our role is to support these teams to achieve more together than they could alone. We use a consistent value-creation model, working alongside management teams to boost efficiency and reinvest in growth, so companies thrive and scale — including strategic development, leadership and talent cultivation, brand transformation, data analytics, and supply chain optimization—while integrating AI-driven insights across sourcing, diligence, and value creation.

Investing with Purpose

Returns with Responsibility. We believe the most durable way to raise incomes across North Africa is to create good jobs at scale and move people into higher-productivity work, and we build the companies that do exactly that. Our portfolio today supports more than 13,000 jobs and has trained thousands of employees while advancing gender balance across the workforce. By scaling sector-defining businesses in healthcare, education, consumer goods, and financial services, we widen access to quality employment. For us, job creation is not a by-product of returns but how we generate them, and how we measure our impact.

Partner with Us

Reach out to us. We back business owners, management teams, and the advisors who represent them. Whether you are weighing a partial liquidity event, a full sale with continued involvement, or a growth recapitalization, we bring patient capital, sector depth, and a hands-on team that has worked together for over a decade. We tailor each transaction to the owner's objectives and underwrite to the growth plan we help management build, not financial engineering. Every inquiry is treated confidentially and answered by a senior member of the team with a clear yes, no, or what we would need to get to yes. MORE

Market Solutions

Providing innovative capital. We leverage our experience to create differentiated structures that bridge the gap between private growth and public capital markets, while supporting the scaling of the local financial services ecosystem. We are sponsoring Spark, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company to be listed on the Egyptian Exchange to create local champions across the consumer goods, healthcare, education, and financial services sectors. Our aim is to provide target companies with an accelerated path to public liquidity, enhanced governance, and the operational expertise required to scale within Egypt’s evolving economic landscape. MORE

Our People

Experienced, Entrepreneurial, Passionate. We are an entrepreneurial, passionate team that has worked together for over a decade, building a unique track record with a long-term vision to position North Africa on the global stage. What defines us is a clear commitment to the highest standards of integrity, a constant drive for excellence, and a focus on attracting and retaining exceptional people to deliver strong results. We pride ourselves on maintaining a true meritocracy—a workplace where we are genuinely kind and respectful to one another, while consistently challenging ourselves to deliver strong, risk-adjusted returns and measurable impact. Even as we grow, we remain dedicated to the mindset of a small, values-driven organization, because we believe that consistency is what makes us genuinely special.

Youssef

Afifi

Ahmed

Badreldin

Ayoub

Benlazreg

Maha

Bensouda

Chris

Coles

Samia

ElBaroudy

Soliman

ElAasser

Omar

Elimam

Enas

Gouda

Adel

Goucha

Hamza

Khenissi

Karl

MacKenzie

Marina

Morcos

Khedija

Tnani

Ahmed

Yasser

Helping Businesses Grow

We don’t buy companies, we invest in partnerships. Nothing explains what we do better than the partner companies we back. Over the past decade, we’ve had the privilege of partnering with leading companies across a range of sectors, geographies, and transaction types—generating meaningful impact alongside attractive returns for our investors and partners. Our track record reflects a disciplined investment approach, deep local insight, and close collaboration with exceptional founders and management teams. RMBV has helped scale businesses in core sectors including healthcare services and manufacturing, K–12 and higher education, consumer goods and services, and financial services. Many of these companies are today's market leaders. To date, we have returned over $1.5 billion from 13 realizations in North Africa, and more than $1.8 billion across the broader Middle East.

Adding Value

Partners in value creation. Once an investment is made, we work to help management add value to our partner companies in order to create sector important and more profitable businesses in their own industries. We have supported management teams in a range of ways, including providing growth and acquisition funding, increasing management ownership stake, strengthening boards and management teams, leading AI adoption and digital transformations, supporting new growth strategies, and sourcing new markets and add-on acquisitions. We contribute the capital, governance, and relationships needed to compound value over the long term.

CXO in Residence

Operators inside. We believe the right leader, in the right company, at the right moment is one of the most powerful levers in private equity. We aim to place exceptional senior operators at the heart of the firm — working alongside our team and portfolio companies to drive real operational change from day one. When a new acquisition calls for transformational leadership, our CXO in Residence (CIR) moves into the business, arriving with full context, a validated playbook, and the trust of our team already in place. No standing start. No learning curve. Just the decisive, experienced leadership that turns a good investment into a great one. MORE

Shared Ownership

Ownership works. We are committed to offering our portfolio company employees the chance to accumulate wealth within the workplace through shared ownership. Our experience shows that widespread employee ownership not only enhanced alignment and facilitates significant wealth accumulation for staff but also elevates family well-being, revitalizes company cultures, boosts employee involvement, and enhances business outcomes, leading to more robust organizations. We hold ourselves to the same standard in our funds - we invest our capital alongside our limited partners to ensure complete alignment.

Our Partnerships

Building sector important companies. Below are the current companies in our private equity portfolio, a result of buy-and-build strategies and geographic expansion. These companies benefit from large addressable markets, defensible business models, and high-quality, capable management teams. Together they reflect our focus on building sector leaders positioned for sustained, long-term value creation.

Taaleem is Egypt's leading higher education platform, our buy and build strategy since 2015 to deliver quality affordable higher education.

Taoufik Hospitals is accelerating the transformation of healthcare in Tunisia through its network of four hospital facilities.

CHI subsidiaries produce a broad range of products from skin and hair care to anti-scar creams, topical muscle relaxants, and antiseptics.

Spinneys Egypt is dedicated to providing the Egyptian consumer with convenient access to high quality groceries through its 35 stores.

Cleopatra Hospitals is accelerating the transformation of healthcare in Egypt through its network of over 14 hospital and clinic facitlies.

Cepro is Algeria's leading independent diapers producer delivering quality affordable hygiene products across the country.

Our Impact

Returns with Responsibility. Our commitment is to deliver superior returns while driving substantial improvements for underserved businesses and customers in North Africa and beyond. At the core of our mission is creating meaningful impact, with ESG principles guiding us to ensure responsible outcomes. Our strategy emphasizes three main areas: i) expanding access to goods and services for consumers and businesses, ii) enhancing quality through affordability, diverse offerings, convenience, and efficiency, and iii) fostering positive changes in our markets to support inclusive growth, job creation and gender balance. We use a blend of financial, operational KPIs, and governance indices to effectively measure and report performance across our partner companies. We are committed to Paris Alignment and will make commercially reasonable efforts to identify and fund green investments in portfolio projects that contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and environmental objectives through energy and resource efficiency.

Increasing Health Equity

Closing the gap. We aim to dismantle the barriers of cost, distance, and fragmented provision that keep quality care and medicines out of reach for low- to middle-income households. We back businesses that widen access to diagnostics, treatment, pharmacology, and everyday care, and that compete on affordability, convenience, and efficiency. Health equity, for us, is a measurable outcome we underwrite from the outset, not a by-product of growth. By scaling these platforms responsibly, we help shift care from a privilege of the few to a service available to the many.

Improving Jobs Quality

Better work, not just more of it. Job creation is how we generate returns, but the quality of those jobs is how we measure them. We build companies that move people into formal, skilled, and higher-productivity roles, raising incomes and stability for households across the region. We invest in training and progression so employees grow as the business does, and we extend shared ownership so the people who create value can accumulate wealth alongside it. Good work, fairly rewarded, is among the most durable forms of impact a business can deliver.

Advancing Gender Balance

Balance by design. Broadening women's participation in the workforce is not left to chance in the companies we back; it is a deliberate part of how we build them. We work with management teams to widen access at every level, from the front line into management and the most senior roles, and to remove the barriers that hold progression back. We see gender balance as both a development outcome and a commercial strength, strengthening the businesses we own, the families they support, and the markets in which they compete.