Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM)
sifem.ch Limited partner
SIFEM is the Swiss Development Finance Institution, fully owned by the Swiss Confederation. It provides long-term financing through local financial intermediaries to small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, aiming to reduce poverty and foster sustainable, inclusive, and resilient economies.
Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) is a public fund headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, founded in 2011. It invests in funds as a limited partner, in financial inclusion, climate finance and sustainable food. 107 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We provide long-term financing through local financial intermediaries to small- and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries.”
— Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM), own website
- Layer
- Limited partner
- Type
- Public fund
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- Bern, Switzerland
- Invests in
- emerging markets, frontier markets, developing countries
- Sectors
- financial inclusion, climate finance, sustainable food
- Founded
- 2011
- Portfolio
- 107 companies
Team, as Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) publishes it
- Mirjam Staub-Bisang Chair of the Board
- Laurie J. Spengler Vice-Chair of the Board and Investment Committee Member
- Angela de Wolff Chair of the Performance and Impact Committee
- Stefan Beiner Board Member
- Pascal Pierra Chair of the Audit Committee and Investment Committee Member
- Julien Kinic Board Member
- Margarita Aleksieva Audit Committee Member
- Ralph Keitel CIO
- Vincent Dufresne Team Lead Business Services Manager
- Severin Fries CFO
- Safeya Zeitoun Impact-ESG
- Corianne Van Veen Impact-ESG
Names and roles exactly as listed on sifem.ch. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 7 co-investors found.
- AfricaGoGreen Fund 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Agaciro Development Fund 1 shared company: ifc.org
- AIMS of Bangladesh Limited 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Circulate Capital 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Cygnum Capital 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Trade and Development Bank 1 shared company: ifc.org
- Venturewave Group 1 shared company: ifc.org
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://sifem.ch/name, is_investor, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://sifem.ch/apply-for-funding/layer
- https://sifem.ch/about-us/at-a-glance/type, founded
- https://sifem.ch/about-us/organisation/hq_country, hq_city, sectors
- https://sifem.ch/about-us/our-people/people
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Record 350 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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