SA SME Fund I

Fund I supported South African SMEs by partnering with a broad network of intermediaries that deploy equity and debt to help businesses grow. Through these partnerships, the SA SME Fund committed capital across 16 funds and successfully attracted significant additional investment alongside its own commitments.

Fund size

Fund commitments to debt, PE, and VC funds supporting high-growth SMEs

Mobilised capital

Our fund managers independently raised further capital, resulting in substantial mobilisation of funding into the SME sector and amplifying the overall impact of the portfolio.

Substantial mobilisation of funding into the SME sector

Venture Capital Funds

Private Equity Funds

Debt Funds

Set out to play a catalytic role in promoting impactful lending to small businesses via trusted intermediaries that offer an alternative route for SMEs to access funding: an important asset class that needed to be strengthened.