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The business you manage
Management buyouts and buy-ins, backed by a partner who stays on the board for the life of the hold.
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Established 2020 · London · Africa
Realise the potential of your business.
Stone Private Equity Group backs growing businesses across infrastructure, industrial and agricultural sectors — providing the control capital and operating expertise to unlock potential and hold companies through cycles.
- Buyouts
- |Private Equity
- |Growth Capital
Investing in growth
We provide flexible equity funding solutions for entrepreneurial and established businesses, taking control positions in companies we intend to own for the long term.
Sell
Your business
A discreet control sale to a long-term owner, with continuity for your team and your customers.
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Your business
Growth and buy-and-build capital for profitable companies ready to add capacity, sites or product lines.
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Industrial & property development
Development capital for mills, plants, farms and commercial property that underpin our platforms.
Find out moreWhy Stone?
We work alongside management teams to shape and deliver growth.
Management buyouts, growth capital, buy-and-build projects and equity value release — delivered by partners who sit on the board and operating colleagues who spend their weeks on site.
Read our story- £10.2m
- capital under management
- 8
- platform investments since 2020
- 2020
- year the firm was founded
- 3
- core sectors: infrastructure, industrial, agricultural
- 3
- offices — London, Buea and Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- 3
- African regions covered by operating partners
Our story
Stone Private Equity Group was founded by Sheron Alobwede, whose career spans financial services and technology. Her early work in both sectors shaped a discipline in underwriting, capital structure and operating systems — and her African roots drew her to deploy that expertise across the continent's most durable investment sectors.
Based in London, we invest from committed investment vehicles across Africa and Europe. While our firm is rooted in the UK, the majority of our capital is deployed in Africa, where we partner with founders and management teams building infrastructure, industrial and agricultural platforms.
Every investment is led by a partner who remains on the board for the life of the hold, supported by operating colleagues who spend their weeks on site rather than in the deal room. We do not run auctions against ourselves, and we do not buy businesses we cannot explain in a paragraph. That discipline has produced a portfolio of unglamorous, durable, cash-generative companies.
Leadership
Sheron Alobwede
Founder
Sheron's background in financial services and technology gave her a view of capital and operations that she wanted to apply in sectors with long-term structural demand. Her African roots directed that focus to infrastructure, industrial and agricultural platforms across the continent — the foundation on which Stone Private Equity Group was built.
Three commitments we have never revised.
Control positions
We acquire majority stakes in profitable companies, partnering with founders and management who stay invested alongside us.
Operator-led value creation
Our operating partners have run the businesses they now advise. Value comes from commercial discipline and capability building, not financial engineering.
Strategic ownership
We underwrite for sustainable growth, not an exit window. Disciplined ownership lets compounding, not leverage, do the work.
Helping grow infrastructure, industrial and agricultural businesses
A representative selection of current platform investments. Realised investments are available on request.
Nile Basin Infrastructure
Power & transport infrastructure
Meridian Industrial
Precision components
Lekki Freeport Logistics
Industrial & logistics infrastructure
Sahel Agriholdings
Agricultural processing
Continental Grid Partners
Energy infrastructure
East African Agro-Processing
Crop & food processing
Rift Valley Dairy
Dairy & livestock platform
Highland Croplands
Agricultural platforms
On the ground
The assets we own are physical, unglamorous and productive — poultry farms, egg tray manufacturing plants, palm oil mills, pig rearing operations, catfish farms, tourism services, crop processing facilities and commercial real estate across the continent.
Poultry farms
Commercial broiler and layer houses supplying protein to fast-growing urban markets.
Egg tray manufacturing
Moulded pulp packaging plants that keep regional egg producers supplied locally.
Palm oil processing
Mills and refineries taking fresh fruit bunches through to food-grade oil.
Pig rearing
Modern piggeries producing pork for regional food chains, with strict biosecurity and feed traceability.
Crop & grain processing
Storage, drying and milling capacity built alongside the farms that feed it.
Real estate
Mixed-use commercial and industrial properties that house the businesses and logistics we invest in.
Catfish farming
Pond and recirculating aquaculture systems producing protein for growing urban and regional markets.
Tourism services
Hospitality, lodges and destination services that capture rising intra-African and international travel.
Looking to invest?
Three ways to invest alongside the firm.
Deal-by-deal
Co-invest alongside the firm in individual control transactions across infrastructure, industrial and agricultural platforms.
Find out morePlatform partnerships
Back a single platform through its build-out, with direct visibility of the assets, management and operating plan.
Find out moreCommitted vehicles
Participate in the committed investment vehicles from which we deploy capital across Africa and Europe.
Find out moreInvestor brochure
A six-page overview of the firm, our strategy, leadership and selected platform investments — the same material we share in a first meeting.
“Capital with a longer memory than the market.”
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- 01Firm overview and capital under management
- 02Leadership — Sheron Alobwede, Founder
- 03Strategy: control, operators, discipline
- 04Selected platform investments across Africa
- 05Sector focus: infrastructure, industrial, agricultural
- 06Offices and enquiries
Founders, intermediaries and investors.
We read every approach ourselves. If your business fits our mandate, you will hear from a partner within a week.
United Kingdom
Station Road
Bromley BR2
London
Cameroon
Stone Private Equity Group
Great Soppo
Buea - Cameroon
Ivory Coast
07 Boulevard Plein Ciel
Marcory
Abidjan - Ivory Coast
African offices
Operating partners across East, West and Southern Africa