We advance gender and SME investing through high-impact advisory support, capital mobilization, and initiatives that strengthen women-led funds and small and medium enterprises. Our efforts unlock growth, expand financial inclusion, and empower businesses that drive economic resilience across Africa’s emerging markets.
MiDA Advisors selectively identifies and supports high-impact companies seeking to raise at least $5 million to help enhance their impact and drive sustained growth. Companies may include, but are not limited to, those operating in rural communities, farming and agricultural associations, and firms working with socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. These transactions are not only transformative for the business but for the communities and countries they stand to serve.
MiDA serves as the Principal Advisor for the first-of-its-kind AWIF, an initiative run by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) designed to advance the financial inclusion and economic empowerment of African women fund managers. This bold and ambitious initiative aims to raise $1 billion over ten years with a two-fold agenda of making a commercial impact for investors while empowering women financial leaders to drive growth in Africa.
MiDA Advisors, with the support of U.S. Government, played a key role in mobilizing $80 million in U.S. and African pension fund co-investments into an African-focused fund (ADP III) managed by Development Partners International (DPI). MiDA provided investor education, facilitated presentations, and helped foster connections during roadshows to support allocations by both U.S. and African Institutional Investors, including Eskom Pension and Provident Fund (in South Africa), KenGen Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme (Kenya), City of Hartford, and the City of Philadelphia. This fund invested in key sector,s including FinTech across Africa. One representative example is the ADP III fund invested in Groupe Cofina, which is accelerating growth for Francophone West and Central Africa’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – a critical sector driving economic development in the region.
The Women Empowerment Mentoring and Incubation Program (WE>MI) was launched in June 2021 to increase the number of investable women-owned and women-managed fund managers in Southern Africa. Funded by the U.S. government and implemented by MiDA Advisors in partnership with the Southern Africa Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA), the program offered technical assistance and investment facilitation support to participating managers. Through connections facilitated by MiDA Advisors, cohort members gained the skills required to be successful managers and cultivated relationships with resource partners and investors in the U.S., Africa, and internationally. By the end of the program, over $21 million had been committed to cohort members by institutional investors.
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