We coordinate the introduction between investors and financing seekers, and stay involved through diligence and negotiation.
We are deliberately a firm of few deals done properly: every opportunity is read, screened and prepared by the people who will stay with it until the parties are introduced and beyond.
— Our approach
Our coordination process covers the full arc from initial introduction through diligence and negotiation, with a small, senior team that has worked on transactions across the continent's power, transport, water, and energy sectors.
Footage: the sectors we work in, for illustration
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We confirm receipt and log the submission for review.
Our team reviews the submission against our fit criteria.
We carry out our due diligence process on the opportunity and the parties involved.
We identify a suitable counterparty from our network.
We make the introduction, open a private deal room for the parties, and keep a record of it.
The opportunity reaches a transaction, or the process ends.
Every opportunity moves through the same six stages. Until our pipeline is large enough to publish without identifying anyone, this panel shows a labelled sample of its shape.
Pipeline
Illustrative sample
| Stage | Deals |
|---|---|
| Received | 9 |
| Screening | 7 |
| Diligence | 5 |
| Matched | 3 |
| Introduced | 2 |
| Closed | 1 |
An illustrative sample of the pipeline shape we work with — not Krestline Group's figures. Live aggregate figures replace it automatically once the pipeline is large enough to publish without identifying any deal.
Each sector has its own route to financial close. These are the questions we work through with sponsors before an investor ever sees the file.
Utility-scale solar, wind and hydro IPPs; commercial and industrial solar; mini-grids; transmission.
What we check first
Ports and terminals, toll roads, rail, inland container depots, cold chain and warehousing.
What we check first
Bulk water supply, desalination, treatment plants and non-revenue water programmes.
What we check first
Irrigation schemes, processing plants, storage, and export-oriented value chains.
What we check first
Most infrastructure is financed off the project’s own cash flows, not the sponsor’s balance sheet. A typical structure has three layers.
How development finance shapes the stackIllustrative ranges only. The right structure depends on the sector, the offtaker, the currency and the lenders involved.
The safeguards are part of the system, not a promise in a brochure. Each one below is how the platform works today.
Identity verification and sanctions and PEP screening before anyone is introduced, with the check and its outcome recorded.
Investors see an anonymous profile first. Names, documents and the deal room open only after confidentiality terms are signed.
Every download is watermarked to the person who opened it and logged, and links to files expire within minutes.
Introductions, agreements and deal-room messages sit in an append-only log with a hash chain, checked daily for tampering.
Accounts are by invitation only, protected by two-factor sign-in, and every sign-in and privileged read is logged.
Safekeeping receipts carry a QR code that confirms, live, whether the assets are still held.
Seven questions lenders ask first. Answer honestly — it takes a minute, and nothing you choose is sent anywhere.
We introduce investors to project owners and financing seekers, and coordinate the process between submission and introduction. We hold assets in safekeeping only when a party asks us to, we do not give investment advice, and we do not guarantee any outcome.
We do not move funds between investors and project owners. Assets deposited with us for safekeeping are returned only to the depositor.
We do not provide investment advice or a recommendation to invest.
We do not guarantee that any introduction results in a transaction, or any particular return.
Decision-making authority always rests with the parties, not with us.
Krestline Group connects capital with infrastructure and energy projects across Africa. We work with institutional and private capital providers evaluating mid-to-large scale project finance opportunities, and with project sponsors seeking equity and debt for bankable infrastructure and energy assets. Our team has worked on cross-border transactions across the continent's power, transport, water, and energy sectors, and we bring the local knowledge and sector relationships that turn introductions into signed term sheets.
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Our team reviews every submission. Nothing about a counterparty is shared with the other side before an introduction is made and confidentiality terms are agreed.
It varies by opportunity and cannot be guaranteed. See Our Process for what happens at each stage.
We'll let you know. We don't disclose our internal reasoning for a decision not to proceed.
— Start here
Investors register a mandate; project owners submit an opportunity. Every submission is reviewed by a person before anything moves forward.
