Investment criteria
Priority Sectors
Our aim is to provide green businesses with patient capital and technical assistance with a focus on long-term value-creation. Investees are therefore supported with both pre- and post- investment technical assistance.
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Waste Management
- Water Management
- Climate Smart-Agric
- Greening Businesses
Screening Criteria
Operating in the green economy, preferably developing and adopting climate adaptation and mitigation solutions in priority sectors
Revenue-generating and/or developing a customer base to give commercial validation to its business model.
Demonstrable potential to scale significantly, preferably to other West African countries.
Innovative solutions (technology or business model) that allow for significant growth.
Profitable business case with an attractive entry valuation and a viable exit (self-liquidating, trade sale or secondaries).
Investment Process
Process lasting 2 weeks to 2 months
Point of investment selection
Process lasting 2 to 3 months
Point of the final investment decision
Process lasting 1 to 2 months
Our actions propagate outcomes that are proportionate and aligned to our investment thesis
Wangara Outputs:
Providing increased capital to early and growth-stage “green” small and growing businesses. Technical assistance towards greater business scale and growth; investment readiness including, marketing expertise, governance, operational processes strategy, climate resilience, export market facilitation and capital introduction, networking, good business practices for scale (including governance structures and oversight) etc.
Wangara Outputs:
- Providing increased capital to early and growth-stage “green” and “gender positive” small and growing businesses.
- Fair distribution of resources to all workers, hiring, and advancement processes within the investment firm and portfolio companies.
- Gender mainstreaming within portfolio companies.
Wangara Outputs:
- Providing increased capital to early and growth-stage “green” small and growing businesses.
- Technical assistance for climate action planning, towards greater climate-positive business scale and growth, such as climate resilience, decrease in GHG emissions via practices, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and water and other resource optimisation; including impact management support, technical assistance and all generalist business acceleration technical support.
