This book documents how the Fund’s ecosystem strategy was developed, what we learned by executing it across four distinct segments of the ecosystem, and where the work needed goes beyond what any single fund can achieve.
The Fund’s role was to back vehicles and enterprises that might otherwise struggle to access capital. Given how capital was designed and how support was delivered, what happened to jobs — and which conditions consistently shaped job creation?
This learning book explores how the Fund created value beyond capital through services, relationships, and market infrastructure that supported businesses and investment firms alike.
A study by the Mastercard Foundation, led by MEDA with experts from Momentus Global,Stafford Law, and Samawati Capital, exploring what it would take for Africa to host more investment vehicles on its own soil.
This report summary outlines the potential of investment vehicle domiciliation in African jurisdictions to mobilize and diversify investment capital for growth-oriented MSMEs.
We have been examining our work at the Fund from multiple perspectives, and what it takes to build a prototype of this ambition and scale. This book is the first significant attempt to document what we learned in the work of deploying capital to investment vehicles.
