Partner request - Cardano Development

Explore a partnership with us

To enable inclusive and sustainable economic growth in local frontier markets, we currently work with over thirty reputable partners including impact and institutional investors, development ﬁnance institutions, foundations, governments, commercial partners, and impact and institutional investors to develop new ideas, and to scale the business of our existing funds in new geographic areas and sectors.

With our solid track record of bringing innovations to scale, we can provide:

Comprehensive risk management expertise.
Systems and infrastructure support capacity through back and mid-oﬃce company DLM Finance.
Help to scale-up innovative concepts quickly.
Leverage our diverse funding network to fuel growth and bring ideas or start-ups from concept to reality.

How to partner with us

We maintain openness towards innovative business concepts and ideas that reﬂect our partnership criteria. Request submissions should meet at least two of the listed criteria and solve existing ﬁnancial systems challenges in frontier markets.

Our Criteria

Combines local currency financing with capital market development.
Encourages the development and refinement of scalable revenue driven financial models.
Offers a comprehensive risk management approach to capital and risk, especially applied to complex risk combinations in data-poor environments.
Addresses existing gaps in the financial infrastructure or a market’s financial systems.
Scalable and highly additional to what anyone else is doing.

What kind of solutions have we partnered with?

AFIForum

The challenge

Establishing the first large development finance conference in Asia.

The solution

By partnering with and co-founding AFIForum we provided opportunities for collaboration in bringing development finance professionals together to build stronger industry networks.

The benefits

Increased volume of partnerships and deals enacted through the forum.

www.afiforum.com

AGRI3 FUND

The challenge

Unlocking USD 1bn of public and private finance towards deforestation-free, sustainable agriculture and land use.

The solution

AGRI3 will provide local currency guarantees, to support commercial banks to provide loans in developing countries. The Fund bridges the gap between the needs of farmers and the limitations of banks by providing de-risking financial instruments and tailor-made technical assistance.

The benefits

Access to loans for investments in support of forest conservation, sustainable agriculture practices, and improved rural livelihoods.

Kilimo Finance

The challenge

Lack of access to bank loans for farmers and small to medium-sized agri-business in emerging and developing countries.

The solution

Through the Kilimo App and scoring platform farmers are connected with banks instantly to access loans.

The benefits

Banks can reach out quickly and at scale to the agriculture sector.

Please contact us

We will connect with you to discuss opportunities.