Impact

CDI Capital is an impact investor in local SMMEs, empowering businesses to innovate, fast-track growth, create jobs, improve lives and help build a stronger economy. CDI works with corporates, government and development agencies to invest in individual businesses through our SMME development programmes, grants, loans and equity.

Offerings;

• Growth fund
• Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF)

The Intsika Impact Fund is a BMF initiative and was founded in 2021. It has since developed a rich network of local business partners. We make early and transformational investments in companies that have the potential to do great things. Our dedicated team is made up of seasoned investors who are looking to partner with hard-working, visionary entrepreneurs.

The Intsika Impact Fund responds to the growing market opportunity to promote SMME’s to bolster job creation and drive the transformation of the South African Business Landscape.  The Fund is designed to fill a gap in the array of

We enable  Allan Gray Fellows and  Social Entrepreneurs to build and scale high-impact organisations which will create jobs, attack poverty and contribute to transformation in South Africa.

Our Offering

We provide funding and support to value-aligned entrepreneurs that build and scale responsible businesses with a positive impact on our society.

Allan Gray Fellows

We support Allan Gray Fellows at different stages of their business cycle. This will include patient capital as well as post-investment assistance.

Social Entrepreneurs

We support social entrepreneurs and innovators with the

Business Financial Solutions (BFS) is a Namibian multi-disciplinary advisory and investment management firm servicing both investors, through the application of investor capital that generate good investors returns whilst achieving social impact and meeting the needs of SMEs for capital and venture building support.

In 2008, a dream was realized when Business Financial Solutions (BFS), a Namibian multi-disciplinary advisory and investment management holding firm was established by Kauna Ndilula. Passionate about financial sector ecosystem development, BFS offers wholesome offering of

LifeCo UnLtd South Africa is an impact business that invests in early to growth enterprises to deliver social, environmental, economic and financial gains.LifeCo is invested in companies in various sectors: renewable energy, urban farming, education, lifestyle and impact venture capital (SA, Netherlands, UK).

LifeCo UnLtd also delivers highly impactful immersive experiences designed to stimulate
entrepreneurial thinking and catalyse text catalyse personal, social and environmental problem-
solving.

Broadreach is an investment and corporate finance house with a particular focus on businesses that have a positive impact on their physical or social environments.  

Broadreach was founded in 2014 by a group of like-minded individuals, with a vision to be the bridge between the technical and financial worlds of renewable energy. Broadreach specializes in building, operating and maintaining clean energy generation and energy efficiency projects for its clients throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from stand-alone solar photovoltaic (PV) plants in Namibia and Rwanda to rooftop installations

Innovation Edge is an innovation catalyst and social impact investor.

We support social entrepreneurs and organisations to develop, test and launch innovative solutions to early childhood challenges. More than 6 out of 10 children in South Africa are at risk of never reaching their full potential. Over 60% of South Africa’s children live in poverty. Challenging life experiences during their first six years, compounded by systemic failure, reduce their possibility of present-day and future well-being. Our investments aim to improve the chances of children’s life-long success by influencing the

Hivos Impact Ventures is an impact investment management company that operates impact funds aligned with the philosophy of its Foundation; creating impact as well as the essential financial return.

With offices in the Netherlands, Zambia and South Africa, we manage impact funds that hold impact creation as important as financial return.  

We invest in early-stage companies that can scale on finance and impact, and  partner with International NGOs, such as our founder, Hivos Foundation, our South African Shareholder, LifeCo UnLtd., as well as fund shareholders WeltHungerHilfe, Cesvi and Ayuda

OceanHub Africa is an ocean-impact catalyst with the mission to connect, inspire and support entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, businesses and other stakeholders to accelerate the development and adoption of new sustainable ocean solutions across Africa.

What we do

Acceleration programme

Personal, product and business development for start-up market and investor readiness. Applications are now open!

Consulting

Support for the development of policies for the local blue economy in African countries.

Ecosystem development support

Through our multiple ecosystem programmes, such as Ocean