Investors in Rwanda

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.

Fanisi Venture Capital Fund S.C.A., SICAV-SIF is a US50M fund which makes direct investments (private equity and venture capital) in businesses with potential for substantial growth. Fanisi Capital was founded in 2009 by the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund) and Amani Capital Limited. The Fund focuses on a segment of the market that has to date been outside the ambit of most venture capital funds in the East African market (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda). Fanisi makes direct investments in high growth businesses across diverse industry sectors with emphasis on: Agri-Business Healthcare Retail & Consumer Education We focus principally on companies that are post revenue with profits or clear path towards profits.

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.

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.

Optimizer Foundation is a venture capital firm specializing in Pre-seed, seed and early-stage. It makes socially conscious investments and focuses on Series A and Series B investments. The firm invests in companies where the final product is aimed at end-users. It primarily focuses on the following sectors: Education, Health, Information Technology, Youth Employment, Climate Change. It typically to invest in companies based in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. It seeks to invest between $0.05 million and $0.15 million in equity and debt. It prefers to invest through its balance sheet investments. Optimizer Foundation was founded in April 2017 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya and London, United Kingdom.

Admaius Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in startups. It seeks to invest in sectors driving Africa’s economic and social transformation, with a focus on projects that will expand access to essential services like education, healthcare, digital infrastructure, FMCG and financial services. The firm prefer to invest in the companies based in Africa region. Admaius Capital Partners is based in Kigali, Rwanda with an additional office in Tunis, Tunisia; London, United Kingdom and Nairobi, Kenya.

GroFin Capital (Pty) Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing debt, equity, growth capital and mezzanine. It invest in all stages of business development, from start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late venture, through growth to expansions. The firm invests in outright purchases, management buy-outs, buying of businesses, management buy-ins, self-liquidating debt and franchises. It does not invest in primary agriculture (agricultural pursuits outside of a ‘controlled’ environment), not-for-profit organizations (NGO’s), informal or micro-enterprise, on-lending (fund-of-fund) activities, self-help groups, co-operatives, proof-of-concept or R&D programs. It also do not support any businesses which do not comply with applicable environmental, legal and social requirements as detailed in our ESG (environmental, social and governance policy). It does not consider seed capital, grants, soft loans, or short-term bridging finance. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on specialized finance, consumer services, consumer goods, air freight and logistics, agricultural services, agricultural machinery and equipment, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, including franchises, education, healthcare, manufacturing, labour intensive businesses and key services (water, energy and sanitation). The firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses in South Africa, Iraq, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Jordan, Zambia, Oman, Egypt, and Tanzania. It also prefers to invest in the Middle East and North Africa region. It prefers to invest in companies with an annual turnover not exceeding $5 million and gross assets not exceeding $3 million. The firm's deal size ranges between $0.01 million and $3 million per investment. It seeks to invest for a period of three years with the maximum being eight years. The fund prefers to take majority or minority stakes between 10 percent and 49 percent. GroFin Capital (Pty) Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Bambous, Mauritius with additional offices in East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa and Middle East & North Africa.

Thousand Hills Venture Fund is a private equity firm specializing in middle-market investments. It seeks to invest in mobile phone companies. The firm typically invests in select African countries with a focus on Rwanda. It seeks to invest between $50,000 and $500,000 in its portfolio companies. Thousand Hills Venture Fund was founded in 2004 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office at Kigali, Rwanda.

Phatisa Fund Managers L.L.C. is a private equity and venture capital arm of The Phatisa Group specializing investments in management buy-outs and buy-ins, expansions, acquisitions, refinancings, and start-up new ventures in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). It also seeks to invest in real estate projects with a focus on affordable and middle income residential developments and mixed use developments comprising of housing and aligned commercial developments and in urban areas. The firm does not invest in bio-fuels, timber, alcoholic beverages, seed capital, short-term bridging, or debt finance and it does not provide grants or soft loans. The firm also does not invest in informal, micro enterprises or SME companies looking for an investment less than $5 million. For its private equity investments, it seeks to invest in agribusiness companies operating in food production, processing, packaging, primary agriculture, FMCG food, cold storage, distribution in cereals, livestock farming, dairy, fruit and vegetables, crop protection, logistics, fertilizers, seeds, edible oils, smallholders, aquaculture, marketing services, paper and forest product distribution, agri services, and mid-sized companies in the food security and food-related sectors operating across the food value chain. The firm will also follow a series of agri-business investments in palm plantations, edible oil refinery, and commodity trade finance. The firm prefers to make investments in Africa with a focus on sub Saharan Africa. It typically focuses to invest in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, Kenya, and Botswana. The firm seeks to invest between $5 million and $24 million in its investee companies. For SME investments, the firm seeks to invest upto $4 million in companies that require financing between $0.015 million and $4 million. It takes majority or significant minority stakes between 5 percent to 100 percent in its portfolio companies. It takes board representation and other meaningful shareholder rights in its portfolio companies. It seeks to exit its investments through the sale to trade players, majority shareholders, local communities, secondary management buyouts, and listing on local exchanges. It seeks to exit its investments between four to seven years through the sale to trade players, majority shareholders, local communities, secondary management buyouts, and listing on local exchanges. Phatisa Fund Managers L.L.C. was founded in 2005 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with additional offices in Lusaka, Zambia; Bambou, Mauritius; London, United Kingdom; and Nairobi, Kenya.

1000 Alternatives (Kenya) LTD is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, startup, growth, pilot, scale up and early stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in education, health, housing, technology, agribusiness and trade sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. 1000 Alternatives (Kenya) LTD is based in Nirobi, Kenya with additional offices in Singapore; Kigali, Rwanda; Lekki, Nigeria; Jakarta, Indonesia and Mombasa, Kenya.

Voxtra Foundation, Investment Arm is a private equity firm specializing in providing later-stage growth capital. The firm provides debt, equity, quasi-equity, and mezzanine. The firm will invest in agribusinesses in East Africa. The firm typically invests in companies based in Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The firm invests between $0.5 million and $2 million per investment. The firm focuses on taking a minority stake in its investee companies. The firm prefers to invest between five to seven years. Voxtra Foundation, Investment Arm is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with an additional office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early venture, middle market and later stage investments. The firm prefers to invest through growth capital. The firm also provides strategic add-on acquisitions to its portfolio companies. The firm targets established small to mid-market companies and also focuses encompass small and middle-market buyout transactions. It seeks to invest in the information technology core education segment including kindergarten to class XII, colleges, universities, and vocational training institutes and companies with h3 fundamentals. It targets investing in India, South & South-East Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa especially Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The firm typically invests between $5 million and $15 million. It prefers majority stakes. Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd was founded in 2009 and is based in Singapore, Singapore with additional offices in Mumbai, India; Johannesburg, South Africa, Kigali, Rwanda and Washington, D.C.

Zebu Investment Partners GP Limited is a private equity firm specializing in equity or quasi equity and expansion capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in small and medium enterprises operating in the food and agriculture value chains across sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Ghana and Mauritius, Senegal, Mail and Rwanda. It prefers to invest an average ticket size of US$ 6 million. Zebu Investment Partners GP Limited is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Advanced Finance & Investment Group LLC is a private equity firm specializing in emerging growth, middle market and mature companies. It specializes in buyouts and growth capital investments. The firm does not invest in start-ups, turnarounds, and later stage buyouts. The firm is sector agnostic. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Central and West Africa, preferably with a regional scope with a focus on Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, DRC, and Angola. It prefers to invest in companies based in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), as well as Morocco, Mauritania, Uganda and Rwanda, all of which are economically integrated to ECOWAS and ECCAS and also fragile states and low-income countries in West, Central and East Africa. The firm prefers to invest between $5 million and $20 million, with the sweet sport being around $10 million, in companies with revenues of between $50 million and $75 million and enterprise value of between $50 million and $75 million. It prefers to have active Board representation in its portfolio companies. It takes minority stake in companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments through a liquidity event within three to seven years. Advanced Finance & Investment Group LLC was founded in 2006 and is based in Dakar, Senegal with additional offices in Port Louis, Mauritius; Washington, District of Columbia, Johannesburg, South Africa and Maryland.

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.