The case
In high income countries small and medium-sized enterprises supply 60% of the jobs. In low income countries they supply 30%. The companies exist. The demand exists. What is missing is capital and management capacity at the same time.
We select companies that are economically viable and that operate responsibly. We finance them, and we work inside them. The employment that follows is a result of the business working, not a target we set separately.
The compounding
The companies we finance employ 224 people between them. AMFRI alone employs up to 300 across six farms, most of them young people and about 40% of them women.
AMFRI buys from 560 certified out-grower farms, and those smallholders supply 80% of its export volume. EPL buys maize from female smallholders nearby. When the buyer grows, they grow.
An ESG review is part of every deal. Sakami runs the whole estate on drip irrigation with solar pumps, and is re-establishing indigenous forest along the riparian reserve.
Our measure
Every number on this page is downstream of one thing: companies that make money and can keep making it, long after our capital and our team have moved on.
How we are funded
Investment capital
Pays for growth. It is priced commercially and it expects a return.
Grant funding
Pays for the capacity building that a loan on its own cannot buy.
Why apart
Keeping the two sources distinct is what lets us price the services honestly.
Who we work with
Investors, institutional donors, NGOs and the private sector.