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List of the 40+ Largest Family Offices in Africa [2026]

Every qualifying office in Africa, verified and ranked by size: named decision-makers with direct emails, phone numbers, AUM bands and investment focus.

47
Verified offices
447
Named contacts
8
Sectors covered
Last updated
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What you'll receive

A look at 9 of the 47 offices

Family office
HQ
Type
Focus
AUM
Status
Heirs Holdings
Lagos, Nigeria
SFO
Healthcare · Energy · Consumer
>5B
Verified
Oppenheimer Generations
Johannesburg, South Africa
SFO
Energy · Industrials · Business Services
>5B
Verified
Singularity Investments
Lagos, Nigeria
MFO
Technology
>5B
Verified
Stockdale Street
Rosebank, South Africa
SFO
Media Telecom · Technology · Education
500M-1B
Verified
Private Client Holdings
Cape Town, South Africa
SFO
Financial Services
100M-500M
Verified
Caleo Capital
Johannesburg, South Africa
MFO
Financial Services · Business Services · Healthcare
100M-500M
Verified
Cantilever Family (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg, South Africa
MFO
—
100M-500M
Verified
AlphaWealth (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg, South Africa
MFO
—
100M-500M
Verified
Creo Wealth Management
Gauteng, South Africa
MFO
—
100M-500M
Verified
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Contact-level fields (direct email, phone, LinkedIn) are included in the full dataset.

Featured offices

A few of the offices in the directory

Heirs Holdings

Lagos · SFO · >5B

Heirs Holdings is a single family office based in Lagos, Nigeria, founded in 2010. It manages the wealth of Tony Elumelu, whose fortune originates from the finance sector. The firm invests directly in private equity, venture capital, and real estate, with a focus on healthcare, energy, consumer, and hospitality and leisure sectors.

In the full dataset

Oppenheimer Generations

Johannesburg · SFO · >5B

Oppenheimer Generations is a single family office based in Johannesburg, South Africa, established in 2018. It manages the wealth of the Oppenheimer family, whose fortune stems from the diamond and mining sector. The firm invests directly in private equity, targeting sectors such as energy, industrials, business services, and consumer.

In the full dataset

Singularity Investments

Lagos · MFO · >5B

Singularity Investments is a multi-family office based in Lagos, Nigeria, founded in 2014 with assets under management exceeding $5 billion. The firm engages in direct venture capital, targeting early- and growth-stage technology companies in Africa and North America. Its investment activity includes backing disruptive startups like Paystac.

In the full dataset

Stockdale Street

Rosebank · SFO · 500M-1B

Founded in 2002, Stockdale Street is a single family office located in Rosebank, South Africa, dedicated to the private equity investments of the Oppenheimer family. The firm deploys capital through direct investments, co-investments, and fund commitments, targeting opportunities in media, telecommunications, technology, education, and consumer sectors.

In the full dataset

Private Client Holdings

Cape Town · SFO · 100M-500M

Private Client Holdings is a single family office based in Cape Town, South Africa, founded in 1990. The firm invests across real estate, private equity, fund of funds, and public equities, with a focus on the financial services sector, and manages assets between $100 million and $500 million.

In the full dataset

Caleo Capital

Johannesburg · MFO · 100M-500M

Caleo Capital is a multi-family office based in Johannesburg, South Africa, established in 2011. The firm manages wealth for multiple families from diversified sources, with assets under management between $100 million and $500 million, and focuses on direct private equity investments in fintech, B2B services, and healthcare.

In the full dataset
The landscape

What this list covers

This list contains all 47 family offices in Africa from our verified dataset, ranked from largest to smallest and carrying 447 named decision-maker contacts. It spans both structures: 34 multi-family and 12 single-family offices. Coverage is led by South Africa (70% of the list), followed by Nigeria and Morocco.

Sector exposure is broadest in Real Estate, Technology and Financial Services. The largest offices by assets include Heirs Holdings, Oppenheimer Generations and Singularity Investments.

100% of the offices on this list carry a direct channel: a firm email, phone or contact form, or a named decision-maker's email or LinkedIn. Field-level coverage is shown transparently on this page, and the dataset refreshes quarterly. A purchase includes 12 months of updates.

Read the full guide: Top Family Offices in Africa

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Every office profiled by location, AUM band and structure
Service providers

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Reach named people at the office, with titles and LinkedIn where available, instead of a generic firm inbox.

Named decision-makers with titles and LinkedIn where verified
Coverage

Where the 47 offices sit: by country and sector

By country
South Africa
33 offices
70%
Nigeria
8 offices
17%
Morocco
2 offices
4%
Mauritius
2 offices
4%
Ghana
1 office
2%
Zambia
1 office
2%
By office type
Multi-family
34 offices
72%
Single-family
12 offices
26%
Family Foundation
1 office
2%
Sector exposure
Real Estate42%
Technology38%
Financial Services35%
Consumer19%
Energy15%
Hospitality Leisure15%
Education15%
Healthcare12%
Share of the 26 offices carrying classified sector data. Many allocate across several sectors.
Data completeness

Exactly what's filled in, field by field

Coverage varies by office. This is the real fill rate for every field in the dataset, measured across all 47 offices, so you know what you're getting before you buy.

The download: a six-sheet Excel workbook — Summary · Offices (58 columns) · Contacts · Deals · CRM import — plus the same tables as CSV. Sample rows · all 58 columns

No dead ends — all 47 offices are reachable via a website or a direct channel. 100% (47) have a direct channel — a firm email, phone or contact form, or a named decision-maker's direct email or LinkedIn.

Per office · 47 offices
Identity & location
Company name100% · 47/47
Office type100% · 47/47
Description100% · 47/47
HQ city89% · 42/47
Firm profile
AUM band94% · 44/47
Year founded85% · 40/47
Geographic focus74% · 35/47
Sector focus55% · 26/47
Asset-class focus47% · 22/47
Contact & reachability
Website100% · 47/47
Company LinkedIn74% · 35/47
Firm email72% · 34/47
Phone70% · 33/47
Contact form53% · 25/47
Per named contact · 447 people
Person
Name100% · 447/447
Decision-maker flag100% · 447/447
Job title99% · 441/447
Reach
Direct email72% · 321/447
LinkedIn13% · 58/447

Emails and LinkedIn are provided where verified, not fabricated to hit a number.

How we built it

Compiled from public sources, reviewed before release

Each office is assembled from company sites, filings and public records, then reviewed and classified. The same dataset powers our research platform, where records update continuously. Field coverage is shown transparently above. Nothing is fabricated to fill a column.

Sources

Company sites, registries and public web sources, consolidated per office.

Inclusion

Entities operating as a single- or multi-family office in Africa.

Classification

Office type, AUM band and sector focus assigned where the evidence supports it.

Refresh

Reviewed and refreshed quarterly; each release supersedes the last.

License

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