Family II. Social Enterprise

Equity that respects the
people who build the business.

Profit is not the enemy of mission. Extraction is. We finance founders building dignified enterprises and we structure the paper so workers and communities share the upside. permanently.

The Instruments

Three vehicles. One thesis.

Each instrument is structured to align capital with the long arc of the enterprise. not the short arc of a fund.

Revenue-share note

Patient Working Capital

Tenor
3. 7 yr
Ticket
$50k. $500k
Return
4%. 8%

Repayment indexed to receipts, never to fixed deadlines. We move with your cash cycle, not against it. No personal guarantees. No covenants that would force a layoff.

Best fit: Early-stage enterprises with proven unit economics serving underserved markets.

Permanent equity

Mission-Locked Equity

Tenor
Perpetual
Ticket
$250k. $5m
Return
Capped dividend

Equity with an irrevocable mission lock filed at the company registry. A worker / community trust holds a minimum 30% stake from day one. Dividends are capped; surplus reinvests.

Best fit: Scale-stage enterprises ready to embed permanent mission and community ownership.

Senior bridge + warrants

Bridge to Institutional

Tenor
12. 24 mo
Ticket
$100k. $2m
Return
Repayment + warrants

Bridge capital for enterprises moving from proof to scale. Structured to crowd in commercial capital without diluting mission or compromising worker equity.

Best fit: Enterprises with a credible institutional round in sight within 24 months.

Portfolio

Capital, in the hands of the right operators.

Iyana Solar

Clean energy / Nigeria

Series A

$1.8m

Mission-Locked Equity + Patient WC

Solar irrigation for 4,200 smallholders. 35% of equity held in a farmer-worker trust. Yields up 41% in cohort plots.

Maji Pure

Water / Kenya

Growth

$640k

Patient Working Capital

Community-run water kiosks across 18 informal settlements. Cost per litre below piped municipal rate. 92 jobs.

Atelier Mbote

Apparel / DRC

Seed

$220k

Patient Working Capital

Worker-owned tailoring co-operative. 64 artisans, median wage 2.4x local median. First export contract signed Q3.

Sahel Grain

Agri-processing / Senegal

Bridge

$1.2m

Bridge to Institutional

Closed $7.5m institutional round 14 months post-bridge. Community trust seat retained on the board.

The Covenants

What every funded enterprise signs.

The same six covenants on every term sheet. Non-negotiable. Filed in public.

Mission lock

Irrevocable clause filed with the company registry. Removable only by trustee consent.

Worker / community trust

Minimum 30% equity stake from day one. Permanent board seat.

Dividend cap

Distributions capped; surplus reinvested into mission or worker bonus pool.

Open books

Annual audited statements published to every capital partner and the worker trust.

No-layoff clause

No instrument we issue may trigger redundancies as a condition of repayment.

Living-wage floor

Every funded enterprise commits to a documented living wage within 24 months.

Impact Calculator

Model an enterprise commitment.

Indicative outcomes per instrument. Move the sliders to see how ticket size and tenor shape reach, jobs and projected return.

Modeled Outcomes

Run the numbers.

Move the sliders to model the estimated reach and financial profile of a commitment. Indicative figures based on five-year field averages.

$275k
$50k$500k
5 years
3 yr7 yr
Target annualised return

4.0% to 8.0%

Revenue-share repayments recycle into the enterprise's working capital. modelled at 1.4x velocity.

Estimated Outcomes
550

People directly served across the life of the commitment.

88

Dignified jobs created or sustained at funded operations.

341

Of those served, modelled as women-led households or borrowers.

$660k

Total capital in circulation, after recycling, over the tenor.

Projected return to capital

$60k to $129k

Cumulative over 5 years on a $275k commitment, target range.

Capital recycled to community

$1.3m

Principal returned and re-lent inside the pool over the tenor.

Indicative model. Actual outcomes vary by geography, cohort and macro conditions.

Build an enterprise that your grandchildren would be proud to inherit.

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