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Beyond corporate: Zoaib Hoosen continues to shape SA’s tech future
From IT graduate at IBM to Managing Director of Microsoft SA and Executive in Residence at Sanari Capital, Zoaib Hoosen has always cut his own path.
Article   |   5 min read   |   18 March 2025
Sanari Sunset Session: Insights on the Future of Work and Workplace Disruption
Sanari Sunset Session co-hosted with Jack Hammer at our offices was a great success – a gathering filled with meaningful connections and thought-provoking discussio...
Article   |   2 min read   |   10 March 2025
Sanari Capital at B20 South Africa Launch
The launch of the G20 and the parallel B20 took place on African soil for the first time. The B20 is a crucial forum where business leaders from G20 nations convene and w...
Article   |   3 min read   |   25 February 2025
2025 Insights Series: A Consequential Year – the Global View
Looking ahead at 2025, Sanari's CEO shares some views on big ticket moves, starting with the shifting global landscape.
Article   |   3 min read   |   30 January 2025
Scaling alternative solutions to cut through the darkness and solve a problem bigger than loadshedding
Sihle Gumede, partner at Sanari Capital who led the investment in Energenic, speaks about the continent's energy security challenges and increasing energy costs.
Article   |   3 min read   |   24 January 2025
Demystifying ESG: From global origins to South Africa’s leadership in sustainability
Sanari Impact and ESG Officer, Patricia Umeche, walks us through key moments in the evolution of ESG, highlighting some of South Africa's front-running governance, disclo...
Article   |   4 min read   |   13 January 2025
From the Desk of the CEO: Optimism and opportunity in a time of internal fragility and external volatility
2024 will be remembered as the year when half of humanity went to the polls, while the world of machines and artificial intelligence took "one giant leap for mankind," re...
Article   |   6 min read   |   17 December 2024
HLONI THANKGE AND TREVASHAN PILLAY: Private equity and SA’s ‘family business’, the Springboks
With SA Rugby's commercial rights in the spotlight, this Business Day article, written by Sanari investment analysts, explores the impact of private equity on sports inve...
Article   |   6 December 2024
Moushmi Patel’s interview with Advancing Women in Investment (AWI)
Sanari Partner and Co-Founder, Moushmi Patel, shares advice on how to overcome the classic catch-22 situation in building out a private equity firm – the need for a tra...
Article   |   2 min read   |   6 October 2024
From the Desk of the CEO: Who GNU? The shifting investment landscape in South Africa
What is a GNU? Well, most South Africans will tell you that it's both a large South African antelope and now a much-overused play on words following South Africa's nation...
Article   |   5 min read   |   31 August 2024
Sanari CEO as Shapeshifter featured on The Money Show
What’s luck got to do with it? Hear Sanari CEO, Samantha Pokroy’s views on this and more in a recent interview by Motheo Khoaripe on The Money Show. Samantha shared h...
Article   |   1 min read   |   6 August 2024
Why family-owned businesses are important for the African continent
Private Equity, with its evolving business model incorporating experience across industries and new age technologies, can have a transformative impact on family-owned bus...
Article   |   3 min read   |   8 July 2024
Samantha Pokroy joins AVCA podcast to discuss Sanari’s 3S Approach
In this episode of the AVCA – The African Private Capital Association Private Equity Talks Africa podcast, Samantha Pokroy discusses the Sanari 3S (Sustainable, Sca...
Article   |   1 min read   |   6 June 2024
Sanari Celebrates 10 Years: The Road Less Travelled by Moushmi Patel
It all started with a Facebook message back in 2014. That is how Sam and I met, which is a rather unconventional way to meet your business partner, but then again, it was...
Article   |   2 min read   |   10 December 2023
Sanari Celebrates 10 Years: A Leap of Faith from Chicago’s Skies by Samantha Pokroy
On November 5, 2013, I found myself on the top floor of a Chicago skyscraper, ready to pitch to one of the city's financial powerhouses—the Pritzker family's PSP Capita...
Article   |   2 min read   |   1 December 2023
Sanari Celebrates 10 Years: Looking back to look forward
As we mark our 10th birthday, it’s not just a milestone; it’s a sum of moments, relationships, struggles, and laughter—where the journey itself is the rewar...
Article   |   1 min read   |   30 November 2023
Sihle talks exit: Start with the end in mind
In this Let’s Get Funded interview, Sihle Gumede, Partner at Sanari Capital, shared her views on how and when businesses should think about exit. She clarified what is...
Video   |   5 mins   |   26 October 2023
Sanari’s investment focus: growth-stage private equity investment
We cover the role of growth-stage private equity in a fast-changing world where digital is pervasive and the lines between VC and PE are blurring.  
Video   |   4 mins   |   1 March 2022