Investors in Mali

Vertical is one of the first and largest vertically integrated companies in the legal cannabis industry. We have operations in CA and KY, combined with strategic partnerships in OH, and additional plans for expansion to other states, which position us to take advantage of the legalization and normalization of cannabis globally.Vertical is led by an executive team of entrepreneurs and business leaders from the alcohol beverage, agriculture, CPG, distribution, entertainment, food, healthcare and medical industries. Vertical’s operations include planning, permitting, development and operation of cultivation, extraction, manufacturing and distribution. We have world class capabilities in product development, co-packing, branding, marketing, distribution and legal compliance.

Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups. With more than $2 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in today’s fastest growing markets. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the firm offers programs that inspire both professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 250 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 10,000 jobs worldwide.True is led by partners Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, Puneet Agarwal, Tony Conrad, Toni Schneider, Om Malik, Adam D'Augelli, Rohit Sharma, Amy Errett, Ann Crady Weiss, Kevin Rose, and Design Partner Jeff Veen. Across the team, True partners have founded more than 25 companies.The firm’s notable realizations include: Fitbit, IPO (NYSE:FIT); Duo Security, acquired by Cisco; Ring, acquired by Amazon; Blue Bottle Coffee, acquired by Nestlé; BrightRoll, acquired by Yahoo; Connectifier, acquired by LinkedIn/Microsoft; Evident.io, acquired by Palo Alto Networks; ScreenHero, acquired by Slack; and Caspida, acquired by Splunk.

Abler Nordic AS is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct, and fund of funds investments in emerging, early stage, mature, and startup companies. The firm also prefers to invest in Debt, Sub-Debt and Equity instruments of microfinance institutions. It prefers to invest in young & emerging MFIs that have a clearly stated social mission and that have reached financial sustainability or have good prospects for attaining financial sustainability within the next few years. The firm also invests in other institutions providing financial inclusion to the poor in developing countries. It may in special cases invest in MIVs that focus on such institutions. The firm typically invests in companies based in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa with focus on Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Madagaskar, Zambia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Asia focusing on South and Southeast Asia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan. It may also consider investments outside of these focus countries. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $8 million in companies with minimum total assets of $1 million. It prefers to take both minority positions in its investments and be an active investor. For equity investments, it prefers to take a stake of 10-30% in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to take up governance positions in the board of the MFI or committees under the board. Abler Nordic AS was established in October 2008 and is based in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; Nairobi, Kenya, Tangerang, Indonesia & Bengaluru, India.

J3A Partners AM is a venture capital firm specializing in startups and early-stage, series A and B investments. It prefers to invest in Fintech, Insurtech and Healthtech sectors. It seeks to invest in European union, West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) area across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Guinea-Bissau, and Niger. It seeks to invest between €0.075 million ($0.08 million) and €5 million ($5.61 million) per transaction in equity investment. It prefers to take majority and minority stakes. It holds its investment between two and four years and for more than 6 years. J3A Partners AM was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional office in Paris, France.

Brightmore Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early stages, growth capital, turn around, buyouts, restructuring, leverage buyouts and management buyouts. The firm considers investments in small and medium enterprises, agriculture and food processing, construction and real estate, health and medicine, technology, consumer and B2B services. The firm typically invest in francophone West African countries with focus in Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, cape verde, chad, gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, and sierra leone. The firm considers investments between $0.05 million to $3.26 million as per target investments. The firm prefers to exit its investments through IPO within four to six years. Brightmore Capital is based in Dakar, Senegal with an additional office in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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.

WHAT IS A SOC? Lets create one big SOC.It is already more than clear that a company cannot do without digital security planning, something that involves people, processes and technologies. However, it is not always. Feasible to set up an internal digital security team, dedicated to monitoring the structure,Both for budgetary reasons and demand priorities. A viable solution in this case is to. Seek a partnership with a SOC, which stands for Security Operations Center. SOC is a team – which may or may not be outsourced – wholly dedicated to analyzing. Traffic flow and monitoring threats and attacks. Thus, it is responsible for monitoring the company's security posture and any. Cybersecurity threats. The SOC helps protect all areas of an organization's IT. Infrastructure, including networks, software, and stored data. For that, it works non-stop, 24x7, to track events registered in the company's system and. Decide how such occurrences will be treated. They are usually supported by a team of. Security analysts, engineers and managers who work to respond immediately to security. Threats. The security operations center is also continually looking for ways to improve the. Organization's defense posture as well as prevent future cyber attacks.Millions of malicious Hackers, every day do pentest, when they are not. Awake, use they use artificial intelligence to track and monitor. Hackers invade systems, penetrate security cameras watching the daily. Steps of public and private officials. The networks where the cameras are connected do not have specific cyber security, most of the time the. Cameras are connected to a wifi network, login systems, passwords, emails, documents. Is an error the configurations of network of cameras. In union with the network of systems, logins, users, wifi, and others. Various hackers websites sell database with video of department of governments in various countries. Security camera systems have to be on a separate network, and via satellite. We at ShivaTec always use Starlink, the safest network in the world. Thus, the security camera systems are assured, a single direct connection only with the cameras, and a 100% secure network.SOC | BENEFITS.Safeguards national defense by. Sending digital threat reports, auditories, database to armed forces, schools, hospitals, governments. Deparment, companies of finances, groups, associations, ong's, and banks. In +16 countries.01.Eradicate the data leakage in 16.Countries (names, phones, emails,Documents, links, passwords and.Logins).02.Increase cyber strength in +16.Countries.03.Counter-hacker capacitation for law.Enforcement, teachers, health workers,Politicians teams, technology. Departments, finances departments, groups of investments, advocates, organizations public or private, associations of technology, constructories and imobiliaries, engineers companies, startups, universities, armed forces.PROFILE FOUNDER | Michel Silva.Specialist in DLP intranet, and SOC extranet.Specialist in scanners hacker for servers, logs, web, persons, emails, contacts.Specialist in implementations of softwares hackers for companies or partners.Specialist in trainning hackers using OSINT for teams or unity.Specialist in Web-intelligence, Unity-intelligence, Politics-intelligence, Threat-intelligence.Specialist in criteria and maturity per unit of employees (SALES/HR/ADMIN) relatory in levels: green, red, yellow.Specialist in risks and prevention using SAP.Specialist in simulations with sales/marketing/customer/teams/departments.Pioneering creator of the Cyberjuridic method and Google 0.Dr Michel Silva.Linkedin: https: //www. linkedin. com/in/michel-silva-52356953Instagram: @michel.bsbWhatsapp business: +5561999726043Email: michel1728@live.com

The Anderson Group LLC is a private equity firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, later stage, mature, emerging growth, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, turnarounds and special situations, private recapitalization, industry consolidation, and growth capital transactions in the lower end of middle market companies. The firm is industry agnostic; however, there are some industries it tend to avoid and It does not invest in startups and venture capital transactions or in companies engaged in technology, biotech, natural resources, restaurants or retail businesses, companies that perform heavy construction projects requiring bonding, financial services and healthcare. The firm also considers investments in companies that are at least operating since five years. The firm prefers to invest in niche manufacturing, distributors, commercial services, other business products and services, consumer durables, food products, other consumer products and services, non-financial services, materials, agriculture, other information technology, environmental remediation, distribution and service-based businesses. It targets investments in companies based in the United States. The firm typically invests in companies with sales between $10 million and $100 million, revenues between $10 million and $100 million, and EBITDA between $1 million and $8 million for platform acquisitions and $1 million to $5 million for normalized platforms and no limitations for add-ons. Within special situation investments, it invests in corporate orphans, Companies with Customer Concentration, Out-of-Favor Industries and Companies with Unique Environmental, Union or Other Problems. For Performing Businesses, the firm seeks to invests in generational sales, cash flow transactions, and leveraged recapitalizations. For turnaround investments, the firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States with minimum revenues of $15million. It seeks to acquire a voting control in its portfolio companies. The firm also makes investments in an out of court restructuring, a 363 sale, the sponsorship of a reorganization plan for debtor-in-possession Chapter 11 companies, or an investment in an underperforming company. The firm invests through its personal capital. The Anderson Group LLC was founded in 1985 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

The West African Development Bank - WADB is an international Multilateral Development Bank established in 1973 to serve the nations of Francophone and Lusophone West Africa.The West African Development Bank (BOAD) is the common development finance institution of the member countries of the West African Monetary Union (WAMU). It was established by an Agreement signed on 14 November 1973, and became operational in 1976. Member countries include Benin, Burkina, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. By Treaty of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) signed on 10 January 1994 and entered into force on 1st August 1994, BOAD is a specialized and autonomous institution. It contributes “in full independence to the attainment of the objectives of the WAEMU without prejudice to the objectives assigned to it under the WAMU Treaty”. BOAD is an international public institution whose purpose, as provided under Article 2 of its Articles of Association, is to promote the balanced development of its member countries and foster economic integration within West Africa by financing priority development projects.

Shanghai Pan-Lin Asset Management Co., Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in angel, A-round to B-round growth stage, Pre-A round start-ups, early, C-round mature stage, and pre-IPO investments. The firm seeks investments in technology, media, telecommunication, to B, consumer TMT, energy-saving, environmental protection, healthcare, enterprise-level services and data intelligent equipment enterprise, data intelligence application, consumer upgrade, new consumer model industry, modern agriculture, marine transport, modern logistic, training, education, city greenery, new energy, new material sectors. It typically invests in innovative technology in emerging industries, technology transformation in traditional industries, to B (software, intelligent equipment, industrial aggregation platform) that satisfies B-end cost reduction and quality improvement, and domestic replacement on hard and core technologies (key components, equipment). For healthcare, the firm seeks to invest in high-end medical equipment, biotechnology, biomedicine, innovative biopharmaceutical research and development of major diseases, import substitution of high-end medical devices, major disease diagnosis and treatment covering the following: precise medical care for major malignant diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; and third party inspection in professional medical services focused on genetic testing, gene therapy, drug development including antibody drugs such as small RNA interference, cell therapy and natural products; and other innovative technology. For enterprise-level services and data intelligent equipment enterprise, it prefers to invest based on the digital and intelligent transformation of the consumer supply side. For new consumer model, it prefers to invest in life services covering the following: goods and service upgrade driven by data and internet of things technology; and technology transformation in an industry chain as a result of artificial intelligence technology applications. The firm prefers to invest in China. Shanghai Pan-Lin Asset Management Co., Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in Shanghai, China.

The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The firm directly invests in mezzanine, middle markets, buyouts, mid to late venture, emerging growth, growth capital and in financial institutions with a small and medium enterprise or microfinance lending focus. It makes fund of fund investments in private equity fund, mezzanine funds and venture capital fund. The firm primarily invests in Healthcare, Education, Energy, water and resource, Business Activities and services including wholesale and retail trade, Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Generalist, Financial service, Agribusiness, Aquaculture, Forestry, SME Development, Communication Services, manufacturing industry, transport & storage, Information & Communication Technology and consumer goods. The firm typically invests in countries whose GNI per capita is below the World Bank's IBRD graduation threshold. It seeks to invest in Latin America with a focus on Bolivia, Columbia, Central America, Cuba, and Haiti Peru; Sub Saharan Africa with a focus on Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Greater Klakes Region, Horn of Africa, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, South Africa, SADC Region, and Tanzania; Middle East and Africa with a focus on Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Tunisia; Southern and Eastern Europe, and CIS with a focus on Albania, Armenia, Azarbaijan, Bosnia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine; and Asia with a focus on South-East Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao DPR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The firm invests at least 60 percent of its investment volume in any year to these priority countries. In cases of regional or global funds, the geographical criteria is fulfilled if at least 50 percent of fund or financial institution investment is made in the priority countries. Its primary focus is on institutions investing in the small and medium enterprise sector along with selective investments in microfinance and infrastructure projects. The firm seeks to invest between $2 million and $40 million in funds. It sources its capital through institutional investors. The firm prefers majority stakes. The firm invests in the form of loans and other debt instruments including secured or unsecured, subordinated, convertible or equity linked; direct equity or quasi-equity investments; and guarantees. It may also act as co-investor in the underlying portfolio companies of its private equity funds. The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets was founded in 2005 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Bern, Switzerland.

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.