Making a company financeable.
Our business is not to hand out capital. It is to turn a promising company into one that conventional financing channels are willing to follow. That takes time, method and presence.
Real companies, in Guinea.
We work with companies incorporated in Guinea that produce, process or serve the national productive sector. Criteria vary by programme, but the logic is constant.
- A real activity, with a product or service already sold, even at small scale.
- A founder committed full time, who accepts governance and reporting.
- A financing need the company cannot cover alone, and that banks do not yet cover.
- Potential for employment, local processing or measurable environmental impact.
- A legal and tax structure that can be put in order within a reasonable time.
From the first meeting to the exit.
First contact and screening
You present the company. We check eligibility against the relevant programme and we reply, whether the answer is positive or not.
Appraisal
Analysis of the market, the accounts, the legal structure and the team, with a site visit. This is the most demanding step, and it protects the company as much as it protects us.
Structuring the operation
Amount, instrument, valuation, shareholders' agreement, governance and disbursement schedule, calibrated on the company's real cycle.
Investment decision
Submission to the programme's decision-making body, under its own rules. The decision is reasoned and notified in writing.
Disbursement and technical assistance
Funds are released in tranches tied to milestones. In parallel, the technical assistance plan begins: accounting, commercial structuring, compliance and management tools.
Follow-up and exit
Periodic reporting, support on critical issues, preparation of the next rounds. The exit is designed from entry, through a sale to the founder, to an industrial partner or to a local investor.
Half the value is not capital.
Across the programmes we operate, technical assistance represents on average close to 50 per cent of each ticket invested. It is not an add-on, it is part of the financing.
It addresses what actually holds Guinean SMEs back: accounts that cannot support a financing request, a sales organisation that cannot absorb growth, incomplete tax and social compliance, and the absence of management tools.
It is delivered by selected experts, with defined terms of reference and deliverables, and it is assessed.
Does your company fit this?
Tell us about it. We appraise, and we answer.