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Three African women fund managers receive grant funding from Visa Foundation

11 May 2023

Three African women fund managers receive grant funding from Visa

Three women fund managers SME.NG (Nigeria), Altree Capital (Kenya), and Maia Capital (South Africa) are the selected recipients of Visa’s grant funding from the African Women Impact Fund Initiative (AWIF).

The fund is a collaboration between Standard Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) announced last year.

Visa announced a grant to the AWIF as an extension of the She’s Next program, a global advocacy program for women-owned businesses that has been expanded to Sub-Saharan Africa. The grant seeks to champion and strengthen African women business owners as they build, sustain, and advance their businesses.

“We are proud to extend our efforts to empower women entrepreneurs to the fund management space. Women fund managers in Africa continue to face numerous challenges in building sustainable businesses. Their progress continues to be slow due to systematic barriers and investor bias. Our collaboration with AWIF will accelerate the multiplier effect of funding across the entire value chain where women owned businesses exist” said Aida Diarra, Senior Vice President & Head of Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa.

Women fund managers in Africa continue to face numerous challenges in building sustainable businesses. Research shows slow-moving progress in the visibility and inclusion of women fund managers due to systematic barriers and investor bias. With African women accounting for just 7.6% of private equity and women-led businesses receiving only 7% of Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) in emerging markets, this highlights the opportunities that exist to reduce the current gender gaps.

“When you invest in women, you also invest in their communities. Investments that go into the hands of women fund managers not only go towards the growth and sustainability of the companies they invest in, but the women who are part of the value chain of these companies. We are proud to have selected managers who have demonstrated their ability to support the growth and development of their communities, and through the grant these managers will now be in a better position to scale up their efforts and impact the lives of many more women-led businesses,” said Lindeka Dzedze. Global Markets Head of Strategic Partnership at Standard Bank Group.

The selection of the grant recipients was through a due diligence process managed by the appointed investment manager of the AWIF Initiative, Riscura. The rigorous selection criteria were in alignment with the objectives of Visa’s She’s Next programme and AWIF which are to help women-owned businesses thrive, and to support and develop women fund managers, respectively.

Jenni Chamberlain, CEO of Altree Capital Kenya, is the Investment Manager of the Altree Kadzi Gender Climate Fund is one of the selected fund managers. The Fund invests with a gender-lens and climate-smart approach in sub-Saharan Africa, with a strong East African presence.

She explains: “We have four investment pillars that we focus on when we look at an investment, namely, women entrepreneurs, women in leadership (the business must have 30% or more of women in management or on the board), employers of women (over 30% women in employment) and/or products & services that will improve the lives of women.

The Altree Kadzi Gender Climate Fund will utilise the funding to invest in women-led and women-oriented companies, also driving sustainability and climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. By intentionally focusing on women and climate, Altree will provide support not only to the investee companies but also to companies in the greater investment value chain, ensuring gender-equity mainstreaming and sustainability.

“There are numerous barriers to African women accessing finance for their businesses; women-led businesses are an important yet overlooked sector of the economy. These companies are growing rapidly and access to finance will improve their growth trajectory exponentially. Altree will prove the ability of these companies to produce strong returns for the female entrepreneurs and investors alike. Not only are women most affected by climate change but women are early adopters of climate mitigation and adaptation technologies and solutions, as well as strong benefit multipliers. Supporting women-led and oriented firms, empowers women, ensures climate action, and will transform economies and societies” Ms Chamberlain adds.

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