Novastar Ventures

Overview

Third fund (Africa People + Planet Fund, US$200M+ target) was raising in 2023. Anchor commitments reported: DFC US$25M, SBI US$40M. No close confirmed. AUM figure dates from 2020.

Funds

LPs on the record

2 private foundations list on their latest IRS Form 990-PF, and 2 other LPs report holding Novastar Ventures’s funds.

• Norfund (Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries) Development finance institution · 3 funds
• Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) Private foundation · 1 fund
• US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Development finance institution · 1 fund

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Firms whose LPs overlap

The firms sharing the most LPs on record with Novastar Ventures, relative to how many LPs each has. A peer set like this is what Find LPs ranks LPs from.

• Openspace Ventures 2 LPs in common
• Norrsken22 2 LPs in common

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Reported fund performance

As reported by public LPs that invested in these funds, net of fees. “Versus vintage” ranks each fund against every other fund of the same vintage in that LP’s report, mostly private equity and venture funds. Open a fund for its cash flows and full peer ranking.

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC): DFC Annual Project Data: active Investment Funds and fund equity investments, as of September 30, 2024. DFC publishes every active project once a year in a workbook, each with a department, a support type, a sector, a description and the amount committed in US dollars ("the original principal/investment value that DFC has committed to provide or guaranty"); this is its snapshot of active transactions on the as-of date. This list keeps 70 funds: every project of the department "Investment Funds" (which DFC defines as "Debt and equity invested into emerging market private equity funds") and the projects of the department "Equity Investments" whose sector is "Finance and Insurance" (the department's other projects are direct stakes in operating companies). 22 of the 70 are loans DFC or its predecessor OPIC made to the fund (support type Direct Lending), not limited-partner interests; the rest are equity. Commitments are the workbook's Committed column in whole dollars; nothing is converted or estimated. The workbook has no vintage year, paid-in amount, distributions, value, multiple or IRR, so those are blank; its Exposure column (the commitment less cancellations and repayments) is not a market value and is not shown. Left out: 15 direct equity investments in companies, 31 funds whose name or DFC description says credit, debt, lending, loans, infrastructure, real estate or housing, 1 fund project that DFC lists as "Redacted", and all 1196 loans, guaranties, insurance, technical assistance and legacy projects. The 70 commitments add up to $2908980902; the workbook prints no total. View source

Norfund (Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries): Norfund Investment Overview: active fund commitments, as of June 30, 2026. Norfund publishes every investment in a workbook, each with a status, sector, sub-sector, mandate, instrument (Loans, Equity or Funds) and its commitment in Norwegian kroner and in US dollars. This list keeps the active commitments whose instrument is "Funds" in the sectors SME Funds, Scalable enterprises and Financial Inclusion: 78 rows for 75 funds (a fund held under two mandates has two rows, added together here). Dollar amounts are Norfund's own: the workbook's "Commitment (USD)" column, which is the krone commitment multiplied by 0.100698 US dollars per Norwegian krone, the one rate the workbook gives as "CURR -> USD FX rate on Rep Date" for its reporting date of 2026-06-30; each row was checked against that product and rounded to the dollar. Nothing else is derived or estimated. The workbook has no vintage year, paid-in amount, distributions, value, multiple or IRR, so those are blank; the date a commitment was made is not a vintage year and is not used. Left out: 13 active fund rows in the sectors Renewable Energy and Green Infrastructure or with the sub-sector "Infrastructure fund", 2 filed under Funds whose sub-sector names an operating industry rather than a fund, 1 whose name says credit, debt, lending, loan, infrastructure or real estate, 38 fund rows with the status Exit, and all loans and direct equity investments. Norfund does not say which funds are private equity, venture or microfinance funds beyond these labels, so microfinance and mezzanine funds remain. The 75 commitments add up to $843206301; the workbook prints no total. View source