Grassroots Business Fund
gbfund.org Direct investor
Grassroots Business Fund is an impact investment organization that provides capital and technical assistance to small and medium enterprises in underserved markets, primarily in Africa. It operates both a programs window for early-stage enterprises and an investment window providing mezzanine capital for growth-stage enterprises.
Grassroots Business Fund is an investor headquartered in Washington, United States, founded in 2004. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in SMEs and missing middle. Its stated cheque size is Loans from $100,000 to $3 million. 600 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We finance and support enterprises that create jobs, strengthen value chains, and reach underserved markets.”
— Grassroots Business Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- Washington, United States
- Invests in
- Africa, Asia, Latin America
- Sectors
- SMEs, missing middle
- Cheque size
- Loans from $100,000 to $3 million
- Founded
- 2004
- Portfolio
- 600 companies
Team, as Grassroots Business Fund publishes it
- Harold Rosen Chief Executive Officer, Global
- Lilian Mramba Chief Executive Officer, Africa
- Darshan Dhakan Investment Director
- Brigid Kamau Finance Director
- Rose Galamgam Finance Officer
- Victoria Garzon Legal, Risk and Compliance Lead
- Laila Kassam Investment and Program Officer
- Noelina Wadaki Head of Operations
- Mercy Ireri Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Lead
- David Sandimba Head of Internal Audit
- Kezia Machuki Senior Accountant
- Leah Mburu Senior Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on gbfund.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Grassroots Business Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
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Record 6487 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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