The company behind the platform

Velltant Limited

A fully indigenous investment and management firm, with deep expertise in deal-sourcing, research, due diligence and the financing of a diverse portfolio of asset classes for its clients and stakeholders.

Lagos + UK

Operating footprint, including a country director in the UK

Big Five

Consulting and due-diligence network the team works through

Europe + SSA

Central bank relationships across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa

Three

Funding doorways used, deliberately, to keep liabilities sustainable

Vision

Velltant exists as a synergy between people, ideas and capital.

Mission

To guarantee companies which are built to endure.


Core values

Integrity

Commitment

Excellence

Trust

Diligence

Accountability

Our areas of service

Five disciplines, one investment process.

An investment team reviewing financial models around a table in a Lagos office
Strategy

People and capital, held to the same standard.

Velltant combines human resources management with sound economic and financial principles, using technology. The central aim is to invest in ideas and companies led by good managers, whose production models sustain innovative goods and services.

Professionals engaged for the investment process

Fund managers and risk managers

Accountants and auditors

Researchers, analysts and IT

Settlement agents and dealers

Sales and marketing agents

Analysts at workstations working through portfolio dashboards
Operations

An investment management model with holdings in key sectors.

The company runs an investment management model with holdings in key target sectors, and employs a full-time analyst, a risk manager, a chief operating officer, a chief marketing officer and a UK country director.

Operating disciplines

Operations management strategies

Due diligence, research and planning techniques

Portfolio management systems

Staff recruitment and requirement planning

Short-term scheduling and project management

An executive and an investor shaking hands at the close of a boardroom meeting
Capital raising

A lasting relationship with lenders and investors, through trust.

This is a traditional culture at Velltant, for which all directors and management are fully responsible. Capital is a core component of investment management, and deepening the pool lets the firm meet obligations and generate high returns for clients.

Although fund-raising channels keep widening, the firm deliberately uses only three main funding doorways. That restraint is what keeps its liabilities sustainable.

What the capital base funds

Operations and portfolio holdings

Due-diligence research

Acquisitions

Obligations as they fall due

Returns for clients and stakeholders

Consultants working through due diligence binders in a glass-walled meeting room
Consultants
Due-diligence partners

A network of researchers and Big Five professionals.

They work alongside the team at Velltant across the investment process, from the first pitch through to tracking how a portfolio performs.

Industry consultants and experts assist with research and fundraising, and their connections with institutional lenders, high-net-worth individuals and angel investors are leveraged on a one-time fee or profit-sharing arrangement.

What the network does

Pitch potential investors

Carry out due diligence

Develop market information material

Track performance across the portfolios

The lobby of a modern commercial bank headquarters
Banks

Book-building and standing relationships with bankers.

Velltant works with banks, non-bank lenders and other financial institutions, and keeps constant contact with central banks in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, commercial and investment banks, finance companies and corporate finance firms, negotiating mutually reasonable loan and credit agreements.

What those relationships are for

Accomplishing the central mandate as a holdings company

Improving liquidity, operating income and cash flow for portfolios

Structuring viable business and trade deals for clients and stakeholders

Raising capital for proprietary deals, especially bids and auctions

Structuring moderate single interest rate credit and debt instruments

Registered office

Lagos, Nigeria.

Velltant operates Vellx, the institutional marketplace for Nigerian non-performing loan portfolios. Institutions interested in the pilot can reach the team directly.

4 Oye Balogun Street, Ikate, Lekki, Lagos

+234 01 8770159info@velltant.com

Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm