Banks, funds, and lenders that help access capital in this region.
- Provider
- Ict Hub Rs
- Target
- SeedGrowthScale-up
Zajedno otključavamo potencijale ljudi i biznisa i stvaramo prome Public programs: Corporate Digital Responsibility in Europe (CDR Europe), X2.0, Serbia Innovates, Cooperation with the Serbian Ministry of Youth and Sports
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- Ts Ventures Rs
- Target
- StartupSeedSeries A
Serbian venture capital fund focused on technology startups. Site unreachable at last crawl (HTTPSConnectionPool(host='tsventures.fund', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError(': Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 8] nodename no); retained reference metadata.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Tuninvest Innovation Sicar is a regional, multi-sector fund managed by Tuninvest-Africinvest Group. The fund focuses on large SMEs with annual sales in the range of EUR 3m to EUR 20m. Its investments include innovative companies (e-business, technical advisory, IT, and specialty chemicals) and the broader knowledge economy.
- Provider
- Scv Rs
- Target
- StartupSeedSeries AGrowth
Early-stage venture capital fund investing in startups across the Western Balkans. 34 portfolio companies indexed from public portfolio page.
- Provider
- Katapult Rs
- Target
- StartupPre-seedSeedGrowth
Katapult is a leading Serbian startup accelerator connecting founders with mentors and investors. 89 accelerator alumni indexed from public portfolio.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- DeepTechSeedScale-up
Sawari Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cairo, investing in knowledge and innovation-based technologies across North Africa. Two inaugural funds (North Africa Fund I and Egypt Fund I) have brought together international and domestic capital from DFIs and regional stakeholders. To date, Sawari Ventures has invested in 19 early and growth-stage companies in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, in sectors including fintech, edtech, healthtech, deeptech, logistics and e-commerce. In addition, it provides a small allocation for seed stage funding, and further contributes to building and strengthening the region's early-stage ecosystem.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- SeedScale-up
Phenicia Seed Fund is the first Tunisian early stage fund dedicated to Innovation/Tech companies. The fund size is TND 10m and the first closing took place in September 2007. The fund is incorporated as "fonds d'amorçage" under Tunisian law. The fund's objective is to invest in newly created Tunisian innovative companies or in companies younger than 5 years, with a strong growth potential. The investment period elapsed in September 2012.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- StartupSeedScale-up
Badia Impact Fund is a closed-end venture capital fund, incorporated in the Netherlands. The fund seeks to invest seed, start-up and expansion capital in early and growth stage Technology, Media, and Telecom ("TMT") SMEs located predominantly in Jordan. It is managed by Badia Management Company B.V., a company wholly owned by Accelerator Technology Holdings ("ATH") and incorporated as a limited liability company in the Netherlands.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- StartupScale-up
Silicon Badia is a global venture capital firm with offices in the United States and the Middle East. It has invested in over 80 technology companies in over 15 industries and cities worldwide. Its second regional fund, Badia Impact Squared Fund (BIF2), is a sector-agnostic fund that invests in tech and tech-enabled startups in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon at the Series A and Series B stages.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
The fund focuses on providing growth equity capital to primarily technology and export-oriented companies in Ukraine and Moldova.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- SMEScale-upGrowth
SVL-SME Fund (Neev II Fund), the successor fund of Neev I, announced its Initial Closing in June 2021 and seeks to provide growth and capital expansion to SMEs offering solutions for clean energy, electric vehicles, efficient use of raw materials, and water and circular economy projects in the country. The SME space is one of the largest employment generators in India, and has the ability to generate a multiplier effect in terms of increased standards of living, better livelihoods and access to clean energy to large sections of society is tremendously high.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
SPE AIF I (or "AIF I") is a private equity fund established to make investments in Africa, with a particular focus on North Africa. AIF aims to take advantage of opportunities that will emerge as African and specifically North African economies expand, diversify, and move up their respective value chains. AIF will focus primarily on control and quasi-control investments in manufacturing, production and processing, services to industry, healthcare and education.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Capital North Africa Venture Fund is a private equity fund which made equity and equity-related investments in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in Morocco. The fund was fully invested by end of 2011. The investments include companies in diversified sectors. The fund is managed by Capital Invest, a fund management company based in Casablanca, Morocco.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
The fund provides private equity and equity-like investments in Brazil, focussing on growth equity, buyout, minority growth and turnaround.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- SMEScale-up
Averroès Finance ("The Fund") is a fund of funds contributing to the creation of investment funds in the Maghreb and Mashreq countries. The fund is co-managed by CDC PME and PROPARCO, the subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The end of the investment period took place in 2008.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Swicorp Intaj Capital II is a regional fund targeting equity and equity related investments in sectors driven by consumer demand such as consumer goods, retail, media & communications and consumer financial services. In terms of geographic coverage, the fund covers the MENA region including Turkey. Final closing was achieved in September 2012; the fund is currently in divestment period.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Seed
Middle East Venture Capital Fund is a venture capital fund that will primarily invest in early stage private, export-oriented businesses that are located in the Palestinian Territories and are active in business services, software and communication. The Fund is managed by Sadara Ventures, the first venture capital firm targeting the Palestinian IT sector. The assets under management in the fund are around US$30 million. The final closing took place in 2012.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Kantara, L.P. is a fund focusing on expansion capital and buyout investments in established companies. The fund targets private companies based in North Africa, including Mediterranean Partner Countries. The fund is managed by the Abraaj Group, a leading investor operating in the growth markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
- Provider
- EIB
The fund will focus primarily on control-oriented stakes in greenfield assets or operating projects/companies with significant expansions to be made, eventually partnering with premium operators to execute investments.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
AfricInvest is a regional investment fund targeting medium-sized enterprises located in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa. The EIB is not a shareholder in AfricInvest, but a Silent Partner in AfricInvest North Africa, a partnership set up with the purpose of partially financing AfricInvest's deals in the Mediterranean region. Only investments located in the Maghreb and Egypt are eligible for co-financing by the EIB. The Fund is managed by AfricInvest Group.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
South Asia Growth Fund II is a growth equity fund managed by GEF Capital Partners, LLC with an objective to generate long-term capital appreciation in companies that seek growth and expansion opportunities along the resource efficiency supply chain, with a focus on clean energy supply chain, energy efficiency technologies and services, efficient use of water resources and environmental products and services, primarily in South Asia.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Fons Mediterrània Capital I is a multi-sector investment fund targeting private sector companies located in, or having the majority of their assets and operations/activities in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The fund's promoter is Mediterrània Capital Partners, a subsidiary of Riva y García Financial Group. The assets under management in the fund are around EUR 63million. The final closing took place in 2009.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- SeedScale-up
Launched in 2023, MEVF IV is MEVP's fourth regional fund targeting a size of USD 150m and anchored by the European Investment Bank. MEVF IV's fund size makes it one of the few independent regional venture capital funds capable of committing large investment tickets addressing the growth needs of early-stage tech companies in MENA. The new fund's deployment will focus on investing in innovative early-stage and growth-stage tech companies and enabling them to emerge as market leaders in Levant, North Africa and GCC.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Abraaj North Africa II, L.P. is a multi-sector private equity fund, sponsored by the Abraaj Group, which will provide growth capital to generalist small and medium sized companies based in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. The Fund is the successor fund of SGAM Kantara (Fund I) a EUR 115m fund managed by the Abraaj Group, to which the Bank committed EUR 10m in 2006. The fund achieved final closing on 30 July 2015 with USD 375 million commitments.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Capital North Africa Venture Fund II is the follow-on fund of CNAV I in which EIB invested in 2006. The Luxemburg based fund will seek to make investments in medium-sized companies mainly in Morocco, but will also have the opportunity to invest to a limited extent in the other Maghreb countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt) and West-Africa. The Fund is managed by Capital Invest Group, a public company limited by shares ('societe anonyme'), registered under the laws of Luxembourg.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Following on from the predecessor, Fons Mediterrània Capital II is a private equity fund of a generalist nature, investing exclusively in small and medium sized enterprises in phases of capital expansion and which are based in Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia. The fund's promoter is Mediterrània Capital Partners. The assets under management in the fund are around EUR 118 million. The first closing took place in 2013 and the second one in 2015.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
EcoEnterprises Fund provides mezzanine financing and equity to support companies that generate biodiversity benefits through the sustainable use of natural resources. The fund will focus on Latin America which is among the world's richest regions in biodiversity. The fund is managed by Capital Partners for Nature and Communities, an independent management firm based in San Jose, Costa Rica and Washington DC, USA.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
MPEF IV is a 10-year fund managed by AfricInvest. The fund had its first close in February 2018, with capital commitments of EUR 152m from prestigious finance institutions. The fund is aiming to reach over EUR 200m by year-end.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Amethis MENA Fund II is a Private equity fund with focus on the small cap segment in target markets, mainly Morocco and Egypt. The Fund targets high-potential SMEs with stable business models, strong growth prospects, that are best positioned to benefit from Amethis' value-added, and will actively support them to institutionalize, while shaping and driving growth strategies and providing access to Amethis' commercial networks in Africa and Europe. The strategy is sector-agnostic but looking to invest where the team has experience notably where growth is driven by endogenous factors, including healthcare, education, consumers, manufacturing, business services and technology.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Kula Fund II Ltd is making equity and equity-related investments in small and medium-sized enterprises ('SMEs') located in the Pacific Islands region. Besides providing its investee companies with much needed equity capital for growth and expansion, the Fund will also provide on-going support to strengthen and professionalize its investees with the aim of improving operations and decision-making and attracting other sources of long-term capital. Targeted sectors include agriculture, building, engineering, development, clean energy, energy, water, utilities, healthcare, ICT, telecom & technology and transport.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
AIC Caribbean Fund is a private equity fund targeting investments in private companies in the Caribbean region. The fund makes equity and quasi-equity investments of USD 10m - USD 50m in later stage companies, targeting the media & ICT, tourism, healthcare, telecom and energy sectors in the region. While the operations financed by the fund are based mainly in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Barbados - the companies often invest and/or have activities in smaller regional states, thus supporting the development of the economies of those countries.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Massinissa is a private equity fund investing in small and medium companies in Morocco. The fund's management company is Almamed, a subsidiary of Alma Capital based in Casablanca. The assets under management in the Massinissa fund are around 48 million euros. The final closing took place in 2010.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
The fund targets investments in mid-cap companies with a strong growth potential and a turnover of above €20 million.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
Excelsior Capital Vietnam Partners II Feeder, SCSP invests solely in Excelsior Capital Vietnam Partners II, LP (the "Fund"), which is a Vietnam-focused private equity fund targeting growth-oriented investments in small and mid-cap companies.
- Provider
- EIB
Foursan Capital Partners II ("FCP II") is a USD 102 million private equity fund with a mandate to invest in promising companies in Jordan and certain Levant and North African countries. FCP II targets a variety of attractive sectors including education, food and beverage, IT, logistics, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and retail.
- Provider
- EIB
- Target
- Scale-up
GEF South Asia Growth Fund III is a USD 300m (target) investment fund targeting companies that promote climate action and environmental sustainability in South and South-East Asia. The Fund will provide equity to SMEs, improving access to finance and will support the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), aiming to mitigate the effects of climate change. The key climate themes underwritten by the Fund are Climate mitigation, adaption and circular economy, which will include sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, water, food and agriculture, built environment and waste.