Our Portfolio

Grassroots Business Fund provides investment capital to enable high-impact enterprises to reach their financial, social, strategic, and operational objectives.

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GBF makes equity, quasi-equity, and debt investments. Quasi-equity investments are debt instruments with embedded equity features, such as convertible loans, royalty-based loans, and warrants.

GBF targets investments between $250,000 and $1,000,000 and has an average investment horizon of 5 years. GBF can also provide short-term working capital loans to export-oriented businesses between $40,000 and $150,000 through a separate facility (Client Incubator Facility).

Though GBF does not invest based on any specific sector, our current portfolio includes companies in the following areas:

• BoP Services (information technology, energy)
• Agriculture
• Access to Finance
• Artisanal

GBF seeks investments that provide financial returns and social impact.

The graphs below showcase GBF's current investments broken down by region, sector, and by country GNI per capita.

Please note that "BoP services" refers to information technology, energy services, etc. All data is of June 2010.