Grassroots Business Fund
gbfund.org Direct + LP
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 both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, 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 + LP
- 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.
- https://www.gbfund.org/name, is_investor, type, invests_in_geographies, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.gbfund.org/about/modellayer, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
- https://www.gbfund.org/about-gbfhq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.gbfund.org/organizationpeople
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Record 6487 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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