wCap Fund I
wcapltd.com Direct investor
wCap is a Southern African investment manager specializing in structured financing for growth-stage SMEs in underserved markets, with a focus on agriculture, renewable energy, manufacturing, technology, and financial services. It provides senior secured loans, revenue-based financing, mezzanine debt, and convertible debt, and is headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia.
wCap Fund I is an asset manager headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia, founded in 2020. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in agriculture & Food Security, renewable Energy, manufacturing & Logistics and technology & Innovation. 5 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We see our investments in frontier markets not as a niche strategy, but as a structural solution to the financing gap facing high-growth mid cap businesses across Southern Africa.”
— wCap Fund I, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Asset manager
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Lusaka, Zambia
- Invests in
- Southern Africa, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa
- Sectors
- Agriculture & Food Security, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing & Logistics, Technology & Innovation, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Financial Services
- Founded
- 2020
- Portfolio
- 5 companies
Team, as wCap Fund I publishes it
- Nyeji Mhango Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
- Yvonne Mpala Founding Partner & Chief Operating Officer
- Melissa Gray Founding Partner & Chief Financial Officer
- Martina Phiri Principal & Senior Associate
- Chisha Kafuli Investment Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on wcapltd.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page wCap Fund I publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://wcapltd.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://wcapltd.com/portfolio/portfolio_count
- https://wcapltd.com/team/people
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