Open Capital Advisors: Driving Growth and Investment in Kenya and Beyond

Open Capital Advisors (OCA) is a management consulting and financial advisory firm that drives growth, enables investment, and builds markets across Africa.

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Open Capital Advisors (OCA) is a financial services and strategy consulting firm.

They support high potential companies, entrepreneurs, investors, value chains, and scalable approaches to economic growth & poverty reduction across East & Southern Africa.

Since Open Capital was founded in 2010, they have completed more than 250 engagements across industries spanning 20 countries in Africa.

As they move into their fifth year of operations, they have completed more than 100 client engagements across 9 East and Southern African countries.

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Services Offered

Open Capital is a consulting & financial advisory services firm based in Nairobi that supports high-impact SGBs and impact investors across East Africa.

We help businesses, investors, development partners, and the public sector identify opportunities and deliver unique, impactful solutions.

We have supported SGBs and impact investors in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.

For businesses: For highly scalable businesses, they provide intensive, operationally-focused advisory services to help plan and achieve growth. Practically, they help create month-to-month long-term growth plans, implement new systems and processes, perform analyses to appropriately price products and evaluate partnerships, plan new market entries, create marketing and distribution strategies, prioritize opportunities, and plan team structure and staff incentives, among others.

For investors: We also support impact investors in performing diligence, structuring transactions, and managing portfolio companies.

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Capital Raising: In many cases, their business clients require capital to achieve their growth targets. In these cases, they work with businesses to attract the right investors and structure capital raises.

We have helped our clients raise more than $250M and achieve sustainable growth and social impact.

Typical Project Involves

Our typical project involves pre-investment consulting work which includes analyzing business performance, developing growth strategy, measuring impact, and designing business controls, after which we support our clients through a capital raise.

During this stage, we introduce clients to investors and support financial structuring, due diligence, and negotiations.

By offering deep, operationally-focused management support and creative financial structuring, we help open markets and support sustainable businesses to transform industries.

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The Open Capital Team: Our East Africa-based team of over 50 offers experience from the world's top consultancies, private equity firms, investment banks, and development organizations including The Boston Consulting Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, IFC, McKinsey, and The World Bank.

Open Capital helps SGBs by:

  • Identifying high potential SGBs
  • Helping them design business strategies
  • Raising capital to finance their growth.
Open Capital Advisors: Key Metrics
Metric Value
Engagements Completed 250+
Countries Served 20 across Africa
Capital Raised for Clients $250M+

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