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Venture building

You pay for this work. That is the point.

There is no free advice here. We agree the fee before we start, and we agree what we must deliver for it. That keeps the incentives straight on both sides.

An MMOF operating team working with a portfolio company
Before investment
6 to 12 months
Getting the company ready
After investment
Up to 4 years
Holding the growth
How we are paid
An agreed fee
Set before the work starts
Services
Four, scalable
Take one or take all of them

The services

Four things a growing company usually cannot hire for yet.

01

Financial management and accounting

We build reliable, transparent financial management and control. That covers system design, budgeting, bookkeeping and accounting, on proper digital tools. Your people learn to run it, because capacity building is part of the service.

02

ESG management

We build the governance structure and the policies that go with it, then strengthen compliance. The work usually includes a materiality assessment, an action plan, capacity building and guidance while the company implements the plan.

03

Marketing and sales

We define the go-to-market plan. We identify the customer and product segments that carry the most profit, so the sales effort goes where it pays. We also work on the value chain and on partnerships that are worth having.

04

Market research

We help you understand what your customers actually need from your offer. New markets and new customers need evidence before the money goes in. We use qualitative and quantitative studies, chosen by the question you want answered.

How the engagement works

Buy the function. Do not hire it yet.

A growing company does not need every management function in-house. Some are cheaper to buy than to hire, and easier to stop when the company outgrows them.

Scope
Agreed in writing before the work starts. You take one service or all four.
How long
6 to 12 months before an investment. Up to four years after one.
How we are paid
An agreed fee for the service. No success fee hidden in the terms.
Who does the work
Our own specialists, working with your staff, not a subcontractor.
With finance
The service-backed loan bundles the services with the money in one agreement.

What it looked like in practice.

All companies
EPService-backed loanEgg Production Uganda

Egg Production Uganda Ltd

Poultry and eggs · Uganda

Production planning, financial management and go-to-market planning came bundled with the loan. The turnaround worked.

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SRDirect investmentSakami Ranches

Sakami Ranches Ltd

Coffee and tree crops · Kenya

Financial and operational services let the farm read its own data, then plan a three crop mix on the evidence.

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Building a business worth backing? Let us look at the numbers.

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