Inspired Evolution is a progressive, purpose-built investment holding company positioned to lead cleantech investing in emerging markets in southern Africa. Inspired Evolution's investment focus is on advancing the development and use of clean technologies across new energy and environment markets. Through shaping capital deployment to investments in this new generation asset class, exceptional returns can be achieved at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainability.

Inspired Evolution's view is that sustainability is not only everybody's business as citizens of a rapidly globalizing world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.

Inspired Evolution's core values: sustainability; leadership; and innovation.

Inspired Evolution's value creation through its experience across the emerging clean technology and environment sectors, its deep network leverage combined with cutting-edge sustainability research, ensures a net positive benefit to the environment and overall quality of life.

Inspired Evolution has successfully raised its first ZAR700 million fund - Evolution One. This fund makes early stage, expansion or development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses and projects located principally in South and southern Africa.

Inspired Evolution aims to shape patterns of capital deployment within the venture capital and private equity alternate asset class towards cleantech investing. This responsible deployment of capital will catalyse the development and use of clean technologies into energy and environment markets. In doing so, investors are provided with an innovative and ethical investment instrument that transcends mainstream investment conventions as the new generation asset class with high-growth prospects.

Importantly, Inspired Evolution and its investment partners specialise in innovative broad-based black economic empowerment deal structuring as a philosophy across its portfolio of investments, to improve equity participation in the ongoing transformation of the South and southern African economy.