Our impact & insights 2021
Learn with Small Foundation and our partners as together we work towards a thriving business ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa.
Collaborative for Frontier Finance 2022 Annual Convening in Dar Es Salaam
Emerging Leaders: capacity building and resilience training at Sorwathe Tea Plantation, Rwanda (2019).
Introduction
The impact generated by our work and our partners’ efforts is often long-term and richly qualitative as well as quantitative. To support our current partners’ work, we have agreed funding of EUR 20 million + in grant, equity and debt financing. Our partners currently work in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and touch on other low-income countries around the world.
Spotlight stories
Highlights from a few of the partners we support, showing how their innovative solutions can improve livelihoods and offer a route to thriving, sustainable economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
AgDevCo
Backing commercially viable sustainable agri-business to grow and scale.
Converge
Developing impact networks to enable collaboration in a complex world.
Founders Factory Africa
Investing in agtech to catalyse improvements in the agriculture sector.
Investisseurs & Partenaires
Incubating local SME funds across Africa through IPDEV2.
Open Capital
Enabling investment, building markets, and fostering the talented leaders of tomorrow.
Palladium
Research to enable new geomapping technology use in support of smallholder farmers.
Warc SDU Manager and Courage from WATIH: field visit of smallholder field.
Our partners
Our partners are innovators in their fields, with deep understanding of the contexts they work in, each driving forward a change agenda that will create stronger business ecosystems to support sustainable, scalable MSMEs.
Our partners
AFRACA
African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association
Capria
Investment firm supporting early-stage fund managers and start-ups
The Good Summit
Global event–based platform
Invest In Africa Kenya
Connecting multinationals to local suppliers
Rent to Own
Facilitating access to equipment by smallholder farmers
UEEI
Uganda Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Initiative
AMEA
Agribusiness Market Ecosystem Alliance
CFF
Collaborative for Frontier Finance
EFAfrica Group
Serving MSMEs and farmers with equipment loans
I&P
Incubating local SME funds across Africa through IPDEV2
Root Capital
Providing credit to small and growing agricultural businesses
Village Capital
Supports impact-driven, seed-stage start-ups
ALA
Developing and connecting a new generation of young leaders
Converge
Developing Impact Networks to enable collaboration in a complex world
Emerging Leaders
Empowering people in vulnerable communities
MMFM
MatchMaker Fund Management – SME Impact Fund
SAFIN
The Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network
WAI
Women in African Investments is an influential collective of women investment professionals
Aunnie Patton Power
Founder of Intelligent Impact
CSAF
Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance
Endeavor Insight
Studying high-impact entrepreneurs
Open Capital
Management consulting and financial advisory firm in Africa
SOIF
School of International Futures
WARC Africa
Unlocking the potential of farmers by removing barriers
Bobab
Event streaming and peer-to-peer networking platform
Creative Metier
Bringing impact networks together
Founders Factory Africa
Investing in agtech
Palladium
Enabling geomapping technology in support of smallholder farmers
UAA
Uganda Agribusiness Alliance
Our approach
Using a systems lens and our strategic vantage, we support the sub-Saharan African business ecosystem by collaborating with mission-aligned partners. Our practice areas of investment, impact networks, and research are more interwoven than distinct, with each integral to achieving our goal.