Details

Last Funding Type

Series Unknown

Last Funding Money Raised

$7M

Industries

Education,Finance,Higher Education

Founded date

Jan 1, 2014

Number Of Employee

1 - 10

Operating Status

Active

Maarifa is a private tertiary education holding company founded by its management team with capital from ECP. Together, ECP and Maarifa management own 100% of Maarifa. Maarifa’s vision is to build a world-class, Pan-African education company that provides high-quality, market-relevant tertiary education to more than one million Africans over the course of the next 30 years. As of 2016, Maarifa had invested in two universities in Africa (in Uganda and Zambia), with total enrollments of around 6,000 students.

Maarifa is led by a management team with deep experience in and passion for tertiary education. Collectively, Maarifa’s senior management team and operating partners have decades of education experience with global education institutions such as Latimer Education, Strayer University, Alliant University, and Laureate Education, where they have worked in various roles in strategy, operations, enrollment management, business development, marketing, and real estate development.