Impact Capital Africa acts as a conduit between impact investors and growth-focussed Sub-Saharan African businesses that can deliver commercial success as well as social and/or environmental returns.
We support the impact investment process end-to-end through our core business operations:
The ICA team is passionate about creating a self-sustaining investment ecosystem: supporting the growth of African SMEs that will contribute to economic resilience, and deliver social and environmental benefits, and financial returns. Collectively the team has over 35 years of experience working in Africa and in the impact sector, and leverages this experience and established networks to build relationships and nurture the African impact investment ecosystem.
Established in 2017, ICA has conducted multiple in-person and virtual events in Zambia and South Africa, with more planned for 2024 in other southern African target markets.
We have a strong network of global impact funders, including (governmental) donor agencies, DFIs, institutional financiers, private investors and fund managers.
>$125m
DEALS CLOSED 2018 TO 2024
>25,000
JOBS CREATED 2018 TO 2024
>50
Deals closed
>100
BUSINESSES PREPARED & PRESENTED
We leverage our collective experience and established networks to build relationships and nurture the African impact investment space, including:
The ICA team come from a spectrum of backgrounds, but came together with the same vision: to increase Africa’s prominence in impact investment, and to show that financial returns can be achieved while making long-lasting, positive social, environmental, and economic impact.
Tiffany’s background is in mechanical engineering and business operations. Her varied experience in management consulting and engineering project delivery sparked a desire to combine positive impact with sound business practice. After working in Zambia on a mining project she joined ICA to support the end to end process of getting businesses operationally ready.
Originally from the Netherlands, Jeffrey is now firmly entrenched in Lusaka, Zambia. An entrepreneur at heart, Jeffrey ran Rent-to-Own, a Zambia based social enterprise that aimed to unlock the potential of rural entrepreneurs and improve the livelihoods of their families and communities.
Jeffrey holds an MSc in Financial management from Nyenrode University in the Netherlands and prior to moving toe Zambia Jeffrey worked in the corporate sector at Shell in various Finance roles in the Netherlands and Kazakhstan.
The latest addition to the growing ICA team, Siyamthanda is based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. With a background in supporting promising startups that have the potential to disrupt the market and experience with development finance, she provides a fresh and dynamic new view to ICA.
Before founding The Share Theory, Frances gained a wealth of experience in the events and market intelligence industry, including building the European research practice for TowerXchange, a leading market intelligence and events business in telecoms infrastructure. She has also been involved in Impact Capital Africa since 2018, supporting the team with content and event development and as a Non-Executive Director.
