Ensō Equity - Investment, Private Equity, Venture Capital

Investment philosophy

As a principal investor, Ensō Equity invests in both early-stage and later-stage businesses. These businesses should benefit from "rising tides" in global trends and businesses that fundamentally enhance the world around us. Ensō takes a long term view of its investments and is not constrained by typical private equity time horizons.

Ensō Equity is not a passive investor and attempts to actively add value in order to grow its companies. The ability to add strategic value and guide companies to reach their potential is borne out of our experience, networks and extensive operational track record across many sectors and investments.

Please reach out if your business can benefit from this investment philosophy.

The Team

Team

Managing Director

Anton Newbury

Anton's career in investing has spanned 27 years, predominantly in private equity and venture capital. Anton's track record includes Director of Brait Private Equity, CEO of Kathea Communications, Co-Founder of DNI 4PL contracts, Commercial Director of Premier Foods, Co-Managing Partner of Athena Capital (a Sub-Saharan private equity fund), IC Member of Family Legacy Capital LLC (US-based credit fund), as well as IC Member on 1K1V (a Sub-Saharan private equity fund).

In 2019, Anton founded Enso Equity, where he invests his own balance sheet.

Investment Associate

Riaan Schmulian CA(SA), CFA

Riaan completed his CA(SA) articles at the FirstRand Group. He spent a year of his articles in RMB’s Leverage Finance Division as an analyst working on acquisition funding proposals. He was then seconded to RMIH and RMH for a 6 month period where he worked in the investment team on various corporate actions. Returning to RMB Riaan spent close to 2 years in Large Corporate Credit focusing on a variety of sectors and working on noteworthy investment banking transactions across the African Continent. Riaan joined Enso in 2023 as an Associate.