Entrepreneurs

Tukio focuses on providing startup ventures with the capital or knowledge required to scale businesses that contribute to solving the biggest local challenges .

 “The benefit of having an impact lens is that the ventures can raise from blended finance instruments for the first few years of operations.”

Our backed entrepreneurs need to show that they have:

1. Strong management capabilities, preferably founder-led.
2. Suitable structures and processes, allowing for sustainable revenue streams
3. Potential for market-creating innovations as the backbone of their scaling models
4. Low customer acquisition costs
5. Existing customer base with high customer retention
6. MVP with adequate turnover

Africa is a continent of immense potential and opportunity; but it also faces significant challenges in terms of poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. Through supporting early-stage ventures that leverage technology to address the needs and aspirations of millions of Africans, we aim to catalyse positive social and environmental change, while generating attractive financial and impact returns.

Tukio focuses on sectors that have a direct impact on improving livelihoods and mitigating climate risks, such as circular economy, healthcare, education, agriculture, and digital transformation.

Providing capital, mentorship, and access to networks to promising entrepreneurs who have already validated their products and business models is our mainstay.

For those invested with Capital, Simplicity is key; by targeting ventures that have clear exit pathways within five to seven years, such as acquisitions, or mergers; we shall measure and report on impact using a set of impact metrics and best practices for assessing the contribution of impact investments to the ESG goals.

Innovation and technology must factor in.

Technologicily driven businesses can stimulate innovation that create markets through by disrupting traditional markets and by doing so benefitting both people and planet.