Fund vehicle

Spearhead Africa Infrastructure Fund (SAIF)

Compiled from public sources

The Spearhead Africa Infrastructure Fund is a pioneering, Kenya-domiciled infrastructure debt vehicle designed to bridge the severe infrastructure financing gap across East Africa by mobilising domestic institutional and international catalytic capital. Registered as a special collective investment scheme, SAIF is uniquely structured to provide local-currency, long-term debt financing for private-sector-led, commercially viable infrastructure projects. Unlike traditional 10- to 15-year private-market infrastructure funds that lock up investor capital, SAIF introduces a structural evolution by listing its units on a public exchange, thereby transforming infrastructure debt into a liquid, tradable asset class. By raising capital and extending loans exclusively in Kenyan shillings, the vehicle completely insulates both domestic investors (such as local pension funds) and private project owners from foreign-exchange mismatch risks and volatile currency fluctuations.

Manager

Spearhead Africa Asset Management Limited (SAAM)

Vintage

2026

Strategy

Infrastructure

Target size

$115.9m

Size

$26.3m

Status

Active