Adiwale Fund I, managed by Adiwale Companions, the non-public fairness agency co-founded by Togolese businessman and financier Jean-Marc Savi de Tové, has acquired a minority stake in Clinique Ambroise Paré, considered one of Guinea’s largest non-public healthcare suppliers.
Based in 2000, Clinique Ambroise Paré in Conakry serves native sufferers and worldwide mining firms. The clinic gives normal and specialist care in a market with restricted entry to high quality medical providers. The funding is Adiwale Fund I’s newest enlargement into important providers in West Africa, focusing on the healthcare sector.
Africa-based fund backs healthcare development
Adiwale Fund I mentioned it should assist the clinic’s modernization, together with upgrading medical gear, increasing service traces and recruiting further skilled medical workers.
“Bettering entry to high quality healthcare for our populations issues,” Gnassounou, managing accomplice at Adiwale Companions, mentioned. “This funding will assist strengthen native capability and cut back the necessity for sufferers to journey overseas for routine therapies.”
Jean-Marc Savi de Tové, co-managing accomplice at Adiwale Companions, mentioned the fund’s position will transcend capital. “We wish to reinforce governance, environmental and social practices, and supply hands-on operational assist so the clinic can set a nationwide normal,” he mentioned.
Nabil Saad, majority shareholder and CEO of Clinique Ambroise Paré, mentioned the deal comes at an vital level. “Adiwale’s expertise will assist us increase service high quality to worldwide requirements and enhance how the clinic is run,” he mentioned. “We’re proud to accomplice with an Africa-based fund to construct a stronger healthcare system that delivers high quality care at dwelling.”
Adiwale Companions boosts West African companies
Adiwale Partners was based in 2016 by Gnassounou and Savi de Tové. The agency, based mostly in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, gives development capital and operational assist to mid-sized firms throughout Francophone West Africa. It boasts 20 transactions and over 30 fund investments.
It manages Adiwale Fund I, a €60 million ($70 million) non-public fairness fund centered on shopper items and providers, enterprise providers and manufacturing. In September 2025, the fund backed Codex, a Senegal-based lifting and logistics firm and invested $5.8 million in Enko Education in 2022.
In depth Africa-focused fund oversight
Jean-Marc Savi de Tové has 20 years of funding expertise throughout Europe, the U.S., and Africa. Earlier than co-founding Adiwale Companions, he was a accomplice at a personal fairness agency, main governance, funding structuring, and operational enhancements.
He beforehand labored at CDC Group in London, the place over six years he invested greater than $600 million in African funds together with Helios, ECP, AfricInvest, African Capital Alliance, AFIG, Aureos, and Catalyst, and served on their supervisory boards.
