Investing in green economy and asset driven businesses in Southern Africa
We are fast and efficient providers of non-dilutive capital to help scale post-revenue, pre-Series A businesses in Southern Africa.
Flexible financing
Our innovative financing model promotes better investor, entrepreneur stakeholder alignment. Our success is your success.
Quick deployments
Our Data-driven approach to underwriting enables us to meet the financing needs of green economy and asset heavy businesses in a quick and efficient manner.
Value beyond capital
With our vast network, we provide business development support to our portfolio companies to scale throughout Africa and globally.
Our Smart Asset Financing™ approach
A data-driven model which finances revenue-generating assets. We use IoT to track the usage and revenue data streams coming off of the asset in real time, to better assess the health and scalability of the business. This provides a transparent and commercial solution to investing for impact in Southern Africa.
How Smart Asset Financing™ works
Faster investment process than traditional financiers
We integrate with business information systems to collect and analyze operational and transactional asset data, enabling faster and continuous real-time due diligence of portfolio businesses.
We share the risks and rewards
Our financing options promotes better stakeholder alignment with the businesses we finance.
Eliminate manual repayment schedules
We integrate with payment solutions, automating repayment from the businesses we finance thus streamlining the processes for founders.
We invest in asset backed and green economy businesses.
We invest in sustainable and environmentally conscious tech-enabled businesses, focusing onpost-revenue, pre-series A enterprises in Southern Africa. Sub sectors where our model works well include...
The Team
Built for Africans by Africans, we are a female-led fund unlocking asset-backed and green economy capital for the everyday entrepreneur.
What founders are saying
"South Africa is very much an outlier on the African continent. We have the structural economics of a developed market, so a lot of solutions built here work in the developed world. We also have a massive developing portion of our market. The solutions we're building out here have the ability to scale quickly, be really impactful, extremely profitable and change a lot of lives."
Thandwefika Radebe, Co-Founder at Qwili
"South Africa is very much an outlier on the African continent. We have the structural economics of a developed market, so a lot of solutions built here work in the developed world. We also have a massive developing portion of our market. The solutions we're building out here have the ability to scale quickly, be really impactful, extremely profitable and change a lot of lives."
Thandwefika Radebe, Co-Founder at Qwili
"South Africa is very much an outlier on the African continent. We have the structural economics of a developed market, so a lot of solutions built here work in the developed world. We also have a massive developing portion of our market. The solutions we're building out here have the ability to scale quickly, be really impactful, extremely profitable and change a lot of lives."
Thandwefika Radebe, Co-Founder at Qwili