Tabono is an owner-managed investment business focused on profitable businesses in highly specialised sectors. We are attracted to difficult, risky and specialised concerns that we can support to grow into significantly sized businesses within three years.

Built by entrepreneurs from the ground up, Tabono Investments is excited by mining, industrial, services and logistics businesses which are highly specialised and hands-on.

Tough businesses with high barriers to entry may be daunting to other investors, but Tabono embraces difficulty.

We work with you as a team to make your growth happen fast.

Sectors
Tabono has deep roots in these sectors:
- specialised engineering
- construction
- industrial products
- industrial services
- junior mining
- commodity trading
- logistics and services.

Ideal investments 
Tabono’s ideal investments are
- profitable
- highly specialised
- strong management team
- has expansion plans to build the business to a R200-R300m enterprise
- in the mining, industrial, services, logistics or associated sectors.

Tabono has investments in 
- Botswana, 
- Mozambique, 
- Tanzania and 
- South Africa. 

Tabono provides funding, leadership and expertise for remarkable business opportunities. We do not provide debt funding, nor do we invest in startups. 

Founders
As highly rated entrepreneurs, Tabono founders Liran Assness and Reon Barnard bring so much more to deals than funding and their substantial expertise in exceptional mining, industrial, services and logistics businesses. 

They’re on your team to develop strategic partnerships that create extraordinary stakeholder value. And they have a deep appreciation for the challenges of growing a business that can only be acquired by having done it yourself.

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