Mandate & appetite
- Preferred strategies
- CoreValue AddOpportunisticPrivate EquityReal Estate
- Target geographies
- —
- Typical ticket
- —
- AUM
- —
- Real-asset allocation
- RE 100%
- Appetite
- —
Investor profile
Heirs Holdings is a family-owned pan-African investment group based in Lagos, Nigeria, founded to drive Africa's economic transformation. It invests across sectors including financial services, power, energy, real estate and hospitality, healthcare, and technology, emphasizing long-term value creation and philanthropy.
Similar investors
Comparable allocators
Family Office · $7.5bn AUM
Heirs Holdings (Tony Elumelu Family Office)
Lagos, Africa
Heirs Holdings (Tony Elumelu Family Office) is a Lagos, Nigeria-based single-family office. The firm was established in 2010 to manage the wealth, investments, and long-term strategic interests of the Elemelu family. Founded and chaired by Tony O. Elumelu, one of Africa's most influential investors and philanthropists, the firm serves as the central investment and governance platform for the family's assets derived from financial services, banking, energy, hospitality, real estate, insurance, and diversified holdings. Heirs Holdings integrates direct investment, capital allocation, and entrepreneurial development across Africa, leveraging a sophisticated executive team with deep experience. Its services range from multi-sector investment management and portfolio oversight to large-scale corporate governance, platform building, and operational leadership across energy, power, insurance, and financial services. With a Pan-African mandate, Heirs Holdings functions as an active operator-investor rather than a passive allocator, pursuing transformational opportunities in growth markets. Heirs Holdings primarily invests in private equity, emphasizing direct transactions and strategic control positions across Africa's most essential sectors. The sectors that Heirs Holdings focuses on include power and energy infrastructure, financial services, real estate, technology, insurance, hospitality, and healthcare. Its investment strategy is built on a long-term, impact-oriented philosophy centered on economic transformation, entrepreneurship, and value creation, often through sizable equity stakes in both listed and private companies. Heirs Holdings deploys capital across Nigeria and across the majority of African countries. Investment allocations prioritize emerging market growth, operational leadership, and cross-border scalability, supported by extensive market research, due diligence, and a multidisciplinary investment team. The family office meaningfully participates in emerging manager ecosystems when aligned with impact mandates, allocates to emerging markets by definition, and frequently participates in co-investment structures with institutional partners across Africa. Its investment philosophy remains rooted in "Africapitalism," emphasizing private sector-driven development, long-horizon strategic ownership, and catalytic capital deployment.
Other
HYE Holdings
Forest Hills, United States
Other
Saudi Family Holdings
Jersey City, United States
Saudi Family Holdings is a family office based in New York and Riyadh, focusing on bespoke wealth management and strategic investment solutions in a fast-changing global economy. The firm blends tradition with innovation, emphasizing sustainable growth and long-term value creation.
Family Office
Mission Holdings (Saurabh Mittal Family Office)
Miami, United States
Institutional investor. based in Miami. LP type: Family Office. Asset class focus: Fixed Income, Hedge Funds, Private Debt, Private Equity. Sectors: office. Active real asset investor
Family Office
Royal Holdings
Singapore
H101 Fund target list (Singapore ). Original tag: Family Office.
Other
Havenshare Financial
Dallas, United States