Acorn does not currently offer any LLP funds. Instead, the team focuses all its energy on managing and growing our current funds. Looking to the future, Acorn may very well offer an LLP Fund or Funds again.

The Acorn LLP Funds are structured as en commandite limited partnerships. Acorn therefore accepts unlimited liability on the investments made by the partnership whilst the other partners (the Limited Partner investors) assume limited liability. This ensures exclusivity and a close relationship with our investors.

Action Hero Ventures is a private investment holding company that makes early stage investments into real businesses run by strong entrepreneurs.
The company was founded in 2013 by Ernst Hertzog (M.Eng, MBA), an industrial engineer with professional experience in telecommunications, healthcare and financial services.
We look for scalable businesses in various industries that require relatively small amounts of capital to grow. We prefer to invest alongside other investors for a minority equity stake. Funding in itself is not sufficient to grow a business, therefore we add value by assisting in strategy formulation and execution and by giving access to valuable networks.
The company is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

<p>Baylis is a private equity firm investing growth equity in small to mid-market companies across African markets, in the Manufacturing and Industrials sectors (including agricultural processing).</p>

African Capital Alliance (ACA) is an investment firm sponsoring funds and managing investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. ACA manages a private equity fund, a real estate fund and provides investment management and advisory services to institutional investors.

The Africa Management Services Company (AMSCO) tackles the scarcity of human capital in Africa by providing human capital solutions to African industries. It works with a wide variety of clients, ranging from private and public investors, small and medium enterprises and large companies through to industry associations and governmental organisations with a vision to grow African businesses, assisting them to become globally competitive, profitable and sustainable. AMSCO grew out of the African Training and Management Services Project (ATMS), a joint initiative of International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and African Development Bank (AfDB).

Business Partners Limited (BUSINESS/PARTNERS) is a risk finance company that provides financial solutions, sectoral knowledge, mentorship, and other services for small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa. Business Partners focuses on enterprises operating in manufacturing, commercial property, retail, motor trade, travel and tourism, leisure and services industries.

ENVenture is an incubator that empowers rural organisations to learn business skills to launch sustainable clean energy enterprises, starting in Uganda. Incubatees receive a revolving loan and a business coach that mentor them in launching the business, and undertaking the packaged business concept from idea to execution.

Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) is a government agency providing financial and non-financial support to small, medium and micro enterprises and co-operatives. It's mandate is to focus on the region of Guateng. In case of financial support, it runs various programmes such as start-up finance, contract finance, franchise finance, and growth and expansion finance among others.

Managed by Stitching SPARK in the Netherlands, IGNITE Fund provides small and growing businesses (SGBs) in fragile and conflict-affected states with up to USD250,000 (over 3-7 years) of equity finance and leverages SPARK's locally-based technical assistance for entrepreneurs. For each investee, IGNITE Fund develops a tailored technical assistance package to build capacity required to achieve their financial, operational and impact targets.

Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) is an arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development proving equity investment with partners from the public and private sectors. IPS provides venture capital, technical assistance and management support to encourage and expand private enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.