Investors in Congo

XSML is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and funds of funds investments. Within the direct investments, it specializes in seed, start up, SMEs, early venture, emerging growth, growth capital, mid venture, later stage, buyout, and mezzanine investments in small and medium-sized companies. The firm also specializes in venture debt investments and offers loans. For fund of fund investments, it seeks to invest in mezzanine funds. It primarily invests in agribusiness, electronic/ electrical equipment, education, healthcare, financial services, information communications and technology (ICT), transportation, hospitality, warehousing, tourism, and retail & wholesale, manufacturing, business support service sector. The firm seeks to invest in emerging markets with a focus on Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central and East African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm invest between $0.3 million and $10 million. It prefers to make equity investment between $0.1 million and $7.5 million and debt investments between $0.2 million to $5 million with sales range between $1 million to $25 million. For fund of fund investments, it typically invests between $5 and $25 million. The firm prefer to take a majority stake. XSML was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in Kampala, Uganda; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Launda, Angola; and Nairobi, Kenya.

DRC Impact Angels is a foundation whose goal and mandate is to spur and support the development of SMEs, start-ups, and entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We commit to doing so by assisting the maturation of viable and efficient companies through upstream technical and practical expertise as well as business support.

Impact Fund Denmark is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing in the form of equity, mezzanine, loans, debt and guarantees. It makes socially conscious investments. It makes directly & indirectly investments. Under directly investing, it invests in early stage & growth capital investments. Under indirectly investments, it invests in venture capital funds. It specializes in establishing new companies, setting up joint ventures between Danish companies and local business partners and in acquiring existing companies. It provides financing to private-sector projects in the developing countries. The firm can only invest in countries whose 2008 GNI capita income is below $0.03 million with an exemption granted to South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. Also, the host countries of investments must be on the OECD’s DAC list of development aid recipients. It invests where private sector financing is unavailable or insufficient. It invests in sustainable growth and high-impact solutions in developing markets/countries. It does not invest in Forced labor or child labor, Ozone depleting substances, PCB's (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and other specific, hazardous pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides or chemicals, wildlife or products regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Unsustainable fishing methods, Cross-border trade in waste and waste products, unless compliant with the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations, Destruction of High Conservation Value areas, Radioactive materials and unbounded asbestos fibres, Pornography and/or prostitution, Racist and/or anti-democratic media, Alcoholic Beverages (except beer and wine), Tobacco, Weapons and munitions, Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises, Standalone fossil fuelled power plants, Drilling, exploration, extraction, refining and sale of crude oil, natural gas and thermal coal, Storage, supporting infrastructure (pipelines etc.), transportation and logistics, and services primarily related to fossil fuels, Any business using captive coal for power and/or heat generation, Electricity generation from peat and activities leading to deforestation, Investments and/or other projects that aim to produce or make use of agricultural or forestry products, Biomaterials and biofuel production, Export-oriented agribusiness mod, Meat and dairy industries. It prefers investing in commercial services and supplies, biofuels, electric power by solar and wind energy and irrigation systems sector. The firm seeks to invest in climate and Agribusiness. It focuses its investments in Green energy & infrastructure with focus on Clean, affordable renewable energy, Waste recycling and management, Energy efficiency, Water access and management; Financial Services with focus on Microfinance, MSME financing, Development banks and Insurance; Sustainable food systems with focus on Climate farming, Storage and distribution, Processing, Forest and land; Healthcare with focus on Hospitals and clinics, Pharmacy chains, Diagnostic services, Pharmaceuticals & medical equipment. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Africa focusing on North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Central America, Middle East and Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Jordan, Denmark, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep., Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, São Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Asia focusing on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey, Mexico, Kiribati, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Federal States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Western Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, East Timor, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen; Europe focusing on Albania, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Belarus, Balkans, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine; and Latin America with a focus on Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Ecuador, and Jamaica and North Asia, United States of America, Latin America and parts of Europe. It seeks to invest between from DKK15 million ($2.32 million) and DKK500 million ($77.52 million). The firm can invest up to DKK350 million ($51.34 million) per company. The firm seeks to co-invest with Danish businesses in projects based in developing countries. It prefers to take minority stake between 10% to 30% and up to 49 per cent in small projects. It prefers to take a board membership. The firm prefers to exit its investments within five to seven years when the loan has been repaid or the shares have been sold. The firm also offers special assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises which employs less than 300 employees, with an annual revenue of up to DKK 300 million ($53.16 million) and has a positive result in two out of three latest financial years. It also provides advisory services to business investments in developing countries. The firm makes two thirds of its investments in partnership and can also provide additional financing. Impact Fund Denmark was founded in 1967 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional offices across Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa.

Africa has always lived on its feet. Ever since man took his first faltering steps in the great Rift Valley, Africans have been renowned as the world's best walkers. Today Africans are still walking tall, but with one notable exception: the extra milage provided by their Umoja Shoes. Since its own first steps in the late 1970s, Umoja Rubber has helped to put affordable shoes on millions of feet across Africa. From kenya to Congo, Ethiopia to Madagascar, Umoja has become a household name- a name that stands fro strength, confort, value and reliability. Today's bustling Umoja Headquarters is a far cry from the small slipper factory that opened with 26 employees on Mombasa Island in 1978. The Company's Mtwapa headquarters today employs more than 1,600 people and produces a phenomenol 100,000 pairs of slippers and 30,000 pairs of canvas shoes eveyday.

Taranis Investment Limited is a venture capital arm of PERENCO S.A. specializing in series B and startup investments. It focuses on investing in breakthrough technologies that accelerate the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon future, innovative hardware companies with proven technologies, industrial assets, engineering capabilities and ecosystem connections. Taranis Investment Limited was founded in 2024 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Paris, France; Dakar, Senegal and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start up, early stage, mid venture, late venture, later stage, emerging growth, growth capital, bridge financing, PIPES, and buyouts in mature middle market small, medium-sized, and large companies. It does not invest in angel and seed stages and also in sectors such as tobacco, alcohol, gaming, fixed asset (property), defense, and select environmental categories. The firm also invests at an earlier stage in the process (pre-bankable stage) where warranted through access to complimentary seed capital facilities. It seeks to invest in green industries, cleantech investments across new energy and environment markets including clean energy generation; clean energy infrastructure; water purification; waste management; and efficient production technology, renewable energy power generation (primarily wind, solar, small hydro and Geothermal), resource efficiency (in the field of energy efficiency, water and water treatment, waste management and agricultural efficiency), energy efficiency, biofuel, manufacturing, pollution and waste management, green chemistry, transportation, and agribusiness. The firm also seeks to invest in sustainable agriculture, natural health, ecotourism, sustainable settlements, and green real estate. It prefers to invest in Southern African Development Community countries with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa with primary targets being Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, Southern and South Africa ; across the Southern African Development Community including nations such as Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Kingdom of Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Australia. The firm seeks to make equity investment between $1.4 million and $14 million in companies with enterprise values between $1.34 million and $15 million. It prefers to be a lead investor. The firm seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. It acquires significant minority or majority stakes. The firm also provides advisory services. Inspired Evolution Investment Management was founded in 2007 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa with additional offices in Grand Baie, Mauritius, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Nairobi, Kenya and London, United Kingdom.

PME’s investment objective was to achieve significant total return to investors through investing in infrastructure projects and related opportunities across a range of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The main investment focus lay within existing or greenfield projects in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries SA/NV-BIO is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. It focuses on debt, expansion, growth capital, middle market, emerging growth, mezzanine, start-up, early stage, private sector projects; private enterprises with a focus on small and medium enterprises and large companies with local base, financial sector with a focus on financial institutions or intermediary organizations who aim to finance small and medium sized enterprises including commercial banks, microfinance institutions, non-bank financial institutions, factoring, leasing, investment companies, microfinance investment funds, and private equity funds and infrastructure projects with a focus on private projects or public-private partnerships aiming at servicing local populations and businesses and new projects or rehabilitation of existing equipment, subsidies and grants to co-finance for feasibility studies and technical assistance programmes for training, technology transfer; and guarantees. It does not invest in production, trade, or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor or harmful child labor, any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements, weapons and munitions, alcoholic beverages excluding beer and wine, tobacco, gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises, wildlife or wildlife products regulated under CITES, radioactive materials, unbonded asbestos fibers, commercial logging operations or the purchase of logging equipment for use in primary tropical moist forest, products containing PCBs, pharmaceuticals subject to international phase outs or bans, pesticides and herbicides subject to international phase outs or bans, ozone depleting substances subject to international phase out, and drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5 km in length. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on agriculture and agro-industry, information technology and telecommunications, productive sectors for private enterprises; renewable energy, water access, irrigation and agriculture, telecommunications, and transport infrastructure for infrastructure projects. It also invests in manufacturing and ICT. The firm primarily seeks to invest in countries that fall under the following categories: least developed countries, low income countries, and middle income countries. For private enterprises and financial sector, it seeks to invest in Africa, Central and Latin America, and Asia/South-East Asia with particular emphasis on Africa for infrastructure projects. Within Africa it invests in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe; for Asia it invests in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam; for Latin America it invests in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru; it also invests in Palestine. The firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises and larger corporations and for investment companies and funds with a maximum amount of respectively €1 million ($1.10 million) and €15 million ($16.50 million) per project and minimum amount of €3 million ($4.14 million) to €15 million ($16.50 million) for infrastructure projects and less than €1 million ($1.38 million) in the financial sector. It also provides subsidiaries and grants up to a maximum of 50% of their total cost with maximum €0.1 million ($0.14 million) and usually makes early stage investments of €5 million ($6.88 million). The firm seeks a minority and majority stake in its portfolio companies and usually does not hold more than 35%. It seeks a seat on the board of its portfolio companies and may co-invest in infrastructure projects. The firm seeks to invest in equity, quasi-equity including mezzanine, subordinated loans, convertible loans and medium and long-term loans. Loan maturity for private enterprises and financial sector may vary between 3 to 10 years, with a maximum grace period of 3 years and up to 15 years, with a maximum grace period of 3 years for infrastructure projects. Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries SA/NV-BIO was founded in 2001 and is based in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden NV, Investment Arm is a private equity and venture capital of Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. Within direct investments, it invests in middle market, mature, later stage, seed/startup, early venture, emerging growth, recapitalization, buyout, and growth capital investments. Within fund of fund investments, it invests in private equity funds, venture capital funds, and mezzanine funds. It does not invest production or activities involving forced labour or child labour; production or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements; production or trade in a weapons and munitions, tobacco, hard liquor, gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises; any business relating to pornography or prostitution; coal or coal mining; trade in wildlife or wildlife products regulated under CITES; production or use of or trade in hazardous materials such as radioactive materials, unbounded asbestos fibres and products containing PCBs; cross-border trade in waste and waste products unless compliant to the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations; drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5 km in length; production, use of or trade in pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides, chemicals, ozone depleting substances and other hazardous substances subject to international phase-outs or bans; significant conversion or degradation of critical habitat; production and distribution of racist and anti-democratic media; significant alteration, damage, or removal of any critical cultural heritage; relocation of indigenous peoples from traditional or customary lands. The firm seeks to invest in agriculture and fisheries, mining, agribusiness, manufacturing industry, service sector, banking and insurance industry, housing, finance, energy, trade industry, Information technology, consumer staples, environment and infrastructure sectors. Within the housing sector, the firm seeks to invest in companies primarily operating in the land acquisition, infrastructure and construction, mortgage finance, leasing, building-related sustainability and housing-microfinance activities. Within the energy domain, it seeks to invest in developing energy-efficient technologies to distributing renewable energy. In case of its finance sector investments, the firm focuses on financial institutions, including banks, and microfinance institutions. In case of Infrastructure, the firm invests in infrastructure projects that contribute to development or improvement of socio-economic infrastructure such as the power, telecom, water, transport, environmental, and social infrastructure sectors. It seeks to invest in developing companies and emerging markets. It invests in Africa with a focus on Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Botswana Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, Nigeria Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It also invests in Turkey, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Mexico, Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Malta, Poland ,Romania, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay and Russia with a focus on Slovakia. It prefers to invests between €3 million ($4.28 million) and €5 million ($7.14 million) per company. The firm makes seed capital investments of minimum €1 million ($1.43 million) per company or fund. The firm takes minority equity stakes between 10% and 35% in private companies. It prefers to exit its direct equity investments in five years. The fund provides loans of up to €15.5 million ($20.92 million). It also co-invests. Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden NV, Investment Arm was founded in 1970 and is based in The Hague, Netherlands with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg, South Africa and San Jose, Costa Rica.