Gola Capital Partners finances and supports high-potential Guinean start-ups and SMEs. We hold the national component of international financing programmes in Guinea, and we stay alongside the companies long after the money is disbursed.
Financing alone does not grow a company. We combine four levers, because it is the way they work together that turns a solid project into a bankable business.
Minority equity and quasi-equity investments and seed financing, sized to the company's scale and maturity.
Regular, hands-on follow-up, governance structuring and preparation for the next rounds. We take a seat, and we keep it.
Skills development, knowledge transfer and training. It represents on average close to 50 per cent of each ticket invested.
Access to banks, guarantee funds, development institutions and industrial players, in Guinea and across the sub-region.
Gola Capital Partners is the Guinean counterpart of two international financing programmes, executing their national component. In both, it runs operations in Guinea on its own responsibility, under the reporting and control standards of the institutions that fund it.
Circular economy, clean energy, agri-food, cosmetics, education technology and aquaculture. Guinean companies that process locally, employ locally and export.
Collection, sorting and recycling of plastic waste into pellets, and treatment of used oils. An 8 tonne per day unit. Targeting 99 jobs and close to 5,800 tonnes of CO₂ avoided by 2028.
Manufacturing of improved clean cookstoves, a low-carbon alternative to traditional wood and charcoal. Targeting 2,000 cookstoves sold and 37,600 tonnes of CO₂ avoided by 2028.
Zeïna Cacao brand. Local processing of Guinean cocoa beans into chocolate, butter, powder and roasted beans. The first structured cocoa processing unit in Guinea.
Star Parfum brand. Local production of fragrances, body care products and hand sanitisers. A pioneer of the Guinean cosmetics industry, with a production chain mastered locally.
Online education platform and mobile application. Ranked first digital education platform in francophone Africa by the African Union. More than 70 institutions equipped and close to 2,500 courses online.
Production and distribution of Guinean dried fruit and fruit juices. Local produce, female entrepreneurship and a presence outside the capital.
Local production and processing of paddy rice into parboiled rice. An industrial rice mill rooted in Upper Guinea, with structured partnerships with local producers.
Production of fingerlings, sale of feed and fish farming equipment, and training. Spreading aquaculture to reduce dependence on imports.
We work with local entrepreneurs and local suppliers. Alongside the founder, we build a growth strategy, then we execute it with them.
The relationship we look for is a long one. It starts with a demanding appraisal, and continues with a seat at the table, regular reporting and operational support on the areas where the company is weakest: financial structuring, governance, compliance and market access.
That is what it takes for a Guinean SME to become financeable by conventional banking channels, which remains our exit objective.
Gola Capital Partners carries the group's institutional investment programmes and the private equity dedicated to Guinean SMEs.
MBM Capital, the parent company, carries the group's financial engineering and real asset structuring: instruments and vehicles backed by property, agricultural products and companies.
Both entities share the same execution discipline and the same network of institutions. What is originated on one side is structured on the other.
A financial engineering and real asset house based in Conakry. It designs, structures and manages the group's investment vehicles.
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