Stears is the data partner for the 2026 SuperReturn Africa Awards
The partnership brings Stears' private capital data and intelligence to one of Africa's largest gatherings of global investors and fund managers.
Africa's private capital market is becoming more sophisticated. As more capital flows into the continent, understanding the market requires more than tracking individual deals. Investors need to know who is deploying capital, where it is going, which managers are raising funds, who is realising investments and how activity is changing across markets.
This is where Stears comes in.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with SuperReturn Africa, the continent's biggest and most senior private capital conference, as a data partner for the 2026 SuperReturn Africa Awards.
Stears will provide the data and analysis used to identify the top three nominees across the conference's fund manager award categories.
Data behind the people shaping Africa's private capital market
SuperReturn Africa brings together the people behind the capital flows that Stears tracks. Its 2026 conference, taking place from 1–3 December at The Westin, Cape Town, will host more than 700 senior private market professionals, including 200+ LPs and 350+ GPs.
The programme spans fundraising, private credit, infrastructure, and tech, AI and venture capital, creating a meeting point for investors, fund managers and other professionals active across the continent's private markets.
From tracking the market to helping the market assess itself
Stears has built its private capital offering around a simple problem: African investment information is often fragmented across company announcements, regulatory filings, fund disclosures, news reports and other sources. We bring those records together into structured datasets that can be searched, analysed and used to understand how capital is moving across the continent.
The SuperReturn Africa Awards partnership puts that same data to work differently: moving beyond simply tracking activity to helping assess the managers shaping the market.
Meet us in Cape Town
SuperReturn Africa 2026 takes place from 1–3 December at The Westin, Cape Town.
Stears customers and subscribers can also access 10% off SuperReturn Africa tickets using the VIP code: FKR3577STEARS
Offer ends 25 September 2026.
We look forward to bringing the data, research and people shaping Africa's private capital market closer together in Cape Town.
