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.

I — The record

Investors in South African business. Property first, then more.

  • Property

    Every part of the market: residential, retail, office and industrial.

  • Private Equity

    Investors where we could add value together with start-ups incubated along the way.

  • Hospitality

    A growing network of hotels, restaurants and other leisure investments.

II — Representative deals

A sample of deals we have been involved in

Property07

  1. Bedfordview Diamond Centre
  2. Sandton View
  3. 288 Kent Avenue
  4. Rainbow Corner
  5. OK Centre Vanderbijlpark
  6. Spark Schools Property Fund
  7. Student Lakes Vanderbijlpark

Private equity05

  1. Inspire Rentals
  2. Vault Prive
  3. Blutide
  4. Sigfox South Africa
  5. Neronite

III — The partners

Four Partners

  • 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.

  • Sam Isaacson

    Partner

    Actuary, and a founder of MiWay. Works across finance, structuring, tax and legal, through to technology and machine learning.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Fund II is open. Bring us the deal.