IIA is a leading Pan-African investment and trade catalyst coordinating efforts to enhance skills, finance and markets across sectors to achieve impact and sustainability through job creation.

IIA engages private sector in the priority sectors: Infrastructure Development (Construction, Extractives, Renewables), Food and Agriculture by unlocking the SME ecosystems for investors while implementing inclusivity by working with youth and women inclusion across our work.

We support private-sector development drive sustainable by leveraging data access, access pre-vetted SMEs, participatory planning to achieve efficiency, shared value and impact.

Acorn does not currently offer any LLP funds. Instead, the team focuses all its energy on managing and growing our current funds. Looking to the future, Acorn may very well offer an LLP Fund or Funds again.

The Acorn LLP Funds are structured as en commandite limited partnerships. Acorn therefore accepts unlimited liability on the investments made by the partnership whilst the other partners (the Limited Partner investors) assume limited liability. This ensures exclusivity and a close relationship with our investors.

The Africa Management Services Company (AMSCO) tackles the scarcity of human capital in Africa by providing human capital solutions to African industries. It works with a wide variety of clients, ranging from private and public investors, small and medium enterprises and large companies through to industry associations and governmental organisations with a vision to grow African businesses, assisting them to become globally competitive, profitable and sustainable. AMSCO grew out of the African Training and Management Services Project (ATMS), a joint initiative of International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and African Development Bank (AfDB).

Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) is a government agency providing financial and non-financial support to small, medium and micro enterprises and co-operatives. It's mandate is to focus on the region of Guateng. In case of financial support, it runs various programmes such as start-up finance, contract finance, franchise finance, and growth and expansion finance among others.

Global Partnerships (GP) funds early-stage social enterprises. Its main focus areas are women empowerment and rural poverty. GP provides grants for pilot phase enterprises and debt financing to support growth of proven enterprises.

Lok Capital partners with entrepreneurs and companies across different sectors in India and provides finance, technical assistance and fellowships. Lok's main focus is on financial inclusion but it also supports microfinance institutions, affordable housing, small and medium enterprise financing and growth stage companies in financial services, healthcare, agriculture and livelihood. It seeks to invest between USD1 million and USD7 million.

Oasis Capital Ghana Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments in small and medium enterprises and loans. It typically invests between USD 100,000 and USD 5 million. It prefers investing in family-owned and typically owner-managed entities. It seeks to provide risk capital in the form of equity, quasi-equity and profit-sharing facilities and to invest through equity, preference shares, and convertible debts with ratchets. The firm seeks to take minority investor position with stake between 15% and 49% but with some degree of influence and board representation and can make co-investments.

Patamar Capital (earlier known as Unitus Impact) provides venture capital investments in high-growth companies aiming to engage the working poor, address market inefficiencies, and maximise social and financial return. The firm typically invests between USD 1 million and USD 2 million.

SMEFUNDS is an international NGO and platform, promoting sustainable enterprise development in Africa. SMEFUNDS Capital supports for-profit social enterprises with early stage debt and equity investments ranging from USD 100,000 to USD 500,000. SMEFUNDS runs a Women Green Fellowship Programme, a 6-month mentor-led social business accelerator programme for unemployed business women.

Truestone Impact Investment Management specialises in finding, nurturing and investing in small and medium sized enterprises, primarily in developing nations, that are solving social and environmental problems in a way which is commercially viable and has the potential to deliver profits to investors. It aims for direct investment into businesses rather than following the indirect investment route. This enables it to become more deeply involved in business coaching and mentoring within the investments.