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Soros Economic Development Fund invests along the life cycle of enterprises, investing both directly in companies and indirectly through funds. This means that our investments range from seeding early-stage enterprises or business lines; to financing the scale-up of enterprises with proven potential; to sustaining enterprises that need our support to continue delivering social value.
We have significant flexibility in the size of the investments we can make, but in general currently focus on those with a total envelope of between $3 million and $10 million per investment.
Deployed as of December 2021:
$300M
Invested in fragile, frontier, and emerging market countries:
92%
Countries we’ve invested in:
54
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Total investments (70)
Investments List
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Theme: Financial InclusionGeography: AfricaAmount: $1.94MDate: 2009Theme Financial InclusionSize $1.94MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2009
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The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is a $58M+ fund that invests in early-growth stage innovative agribusinesses that enhance incomes, reduce volatility, and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.View websiteTheme Climate JusticeSize $7.5MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2019
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Theme: Financial InclusionGeography: AfricaAmount: $1.94MDate: 2009Theme Financial InclusionSize $1.94MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2009
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The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is a $58M+ fund that invests in early-growth stage innovative agribusinesses that enhance incomes, reduce volatility, and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.View websiteTheme Climate JusticeSize $7.5MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2019
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The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is a $58M+ fund that invests in early-growth stage innovative agribusinesses that enhance incomes, reduce volatility, and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.View websiteTheme Climate JusticeSize $7.5MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2019
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Theme: Gender JusticeGeography: AfricaAmount: $10MDate: 2020WIE invests in high-growth SMEs that present an opportunity to advance gender-diversity and benefit women through their products and services.View websiteTheme Gender JusticeSize $10MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector GeneralistDate 2020
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Theme: Transitions to Open SocietyGeography: AfricaAmount: $10MDate: 2019Cepheus makes growth capital minority equity investments into Ethiopian manufacturing, agro-processing, and education and healthcare services.View websiteTheme Transitions to Open SocietySize $10MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector GeneralistDate 2019
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GAD is a nonprofit enterprise engaged in the manufacture of affordable rapid diagnostics that aims to serve as a technology transfer hub to the Global South.View websiteTheme Access to MedicinesSize $5MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Health CareDate 2020
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Global Access Health is a UK company limited by guarantee (non-profit) and the ultimate parent of both Mologic and Global Access Diagnostics.View websiteTheme Access to MedicinesSize $17MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Health CareDate 2021
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Theme: Smallholder AgricultureGeography: AfricaAmount: $5MDate: 2012Injaro is a $49M fund that invests in SMEs in West Africa engaged in supply-chain development and other ventures that support smallholder farmers.View websiteTheme Smallholder AgricultureSize $5MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector AgricultureDate 2012
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Theme: Smallholder AgricultureGeography: AfricaAmount: $2.2MDate: 2018IPDEV II is a €21.2 platform managed by Investisseurs & Partenaires and established to create and seed national investment vehicles in Africa to support and invest in local SMEs.View websiteTheme Smallholder AgricultureSize $2.2MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector GeneralistDate 2018
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Theme: Smallholder AgricultureGeography: AfricaAmount: $2.28MDate: 2011Juhudi is a non-deposit taking microfinance institution with a mission to improve the livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in Kenya by providing wealth creating financial solutions.Theme Smallholder AgricultureSize $2.28MGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2011
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Theme: Smallholder AgricultureGeography: AfricaAmount: $4.4MDate: 2019Yield Fund invests in agribusinesses that benefit smallholder farmers in Uganda.View websiteTheme Smallholder AgricultureSize $4.4MType IndirectGeography AfricaSector AgricultureDate 2019
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Theme: Smallholder AgricultureGeography: AfricaAmount: $4.79MDate: 2015Real People Investment Holdings, South Africa, is a financial services company that supports home-building and ownership in South Africa and related services.View websiteTheme Smallholder AgricultureSize $4.79MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2015
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Theme: Financial InclusionGeography: AfricaAmount: $3MDate: 2017Select issues loans to mainly low-income employees of the Malawian and Kenyan governments primarily for home improvement, incremental housing, or the construction of a ‘starter’ home.View websiteTheme Financial InclusionSize $3MType DirectGeography AfricaSector Financial ServicesDate 2017