Yieldex Fund I — Closed
Fund I. Fully deployed.
Yieldex began with property investments and broadened into hospitality, asset rentals, mining and technology. Fund I is fully deployed. This is a summary.
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350
Properties, across residential, retail, office and industrial.
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700,000m²
Of gross lettable area.
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20
Private equity deals, from incubation to scale.
I — The record
Investors in South African business. Property first, then more.
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Property
Every part of the market: residential, retail, office and industrial.
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Private Equity
Investors where we could add value together with start-ups incubated along the way.
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Hospitality
A growing network of hotels, restaurants and other leisure investments.
II — Representative deals
A sample of deals we have been involved in
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- Bedfordview Diamond Centre
- Sandton View
- 288 Kent Avenue
- Rainbow Corner
- OK Centre Vanderbijlpark
- Spark Schools Property Fund
- Student Lakes Vanderbijlpark
Private equity05
- Inspire Rentals
- Vault Prive
- Blutide
- Sigfox South Africa
- Neronite
III — The partners
Four Partners
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Dani Machet
Partner
Founded DIY Depot in his twenties and later sold it. More than two decades of building and backing South African businesses since, and thousands of homes and apartments developed along the way.
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Sam Isaacson
Partner
Actuary, and a founder of MiWay. Works across finance, structuring, tax and legal, through to technology and machine learning.
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Ryan Machet
Partner
Over 300 projects across Sub-Saharan Africa: thousands of homes, several hotels, retail redevelopments and a high-security precinct for the country’s diamond industry. Most recently, Africa’s first 6-star green-rated renovation.
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Daniel Treisman
Partner
Started in Chicago on an $18.6bn leveraged buyout, then developed a shopping centre there and ran a residential fund in South America. Now leads acquisitions, disposals, leasing and the day-to-day running of the portfolio.