Symbiotics
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Over the past decade, the company has originated and structured nearly 3600 investment transactions, worth more than USD 4.8 billion, on behalf of more than 420 companies in approximately 80 emerging and frontier markets, all serving a measurable sustainable and inclusive finance objective, purchased by 50 different investment funds and institutional investors. Symbiotics is a registered asset manager in Switzerland, a registered investment adviser in the United Kingdom, and has further office presence in Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore and South Africa, regrouping more than 150 employees worldwide. Through its new online platform Plumseeds.com, for professional investors seeking impact investments in emerging markets, Symbiotics believes in being transparent about the financial benefits, the social impact and the associated risks. That way, qualified investors can make an informed investment decision and build their own impact investment portfolio.
Innovations in the microfinance program planned for the coming year
We work with domestic financial institutions which focus on micro-, small and medium enterprises and low income households with the aim of fostering job creation and access to goods of first necessity. By broadening and deepening the access to capital to microfinance institutions as well as other financial institutions such as SME banks, leasing and factoring companies, to finance an array of Symbiotics is driven by four core themes, that will be further developed in the coming years: FOOD - Microfinance supports rural activities, farmlands and livestock, agribusiness, food processing and small distribution; HOMES - Microfinance supports housing and access to property, home constructions and refurbishments, as well as small local infrastructure; JOBS - Microfinance supports employment and entrepreneurship; ENERGY - Microfinance supports technology transfer, development and distribution at the bottom of the pyramid, in particular in relation to energy efficiency, renewable energy and clean tech.
Countries of intervention
Comoros, Kenya, Malawi, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon, Togo, Mongolia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzgovina, Lesotho, Asia, Sudan, Guinea, Burundi, Senegal, Liberia, Cape Verde, Benin, Mayotte, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Montenegro, Burkina Faso, Chad, Slovenia, Serbia, Korea, Republic of, Romania, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Japan, Sierra Leone, Hungary, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Cambodia, Congo, Te Democratic Republic of the, Swaziland, Réunion, Ethiopia, Zambia, Somalia, Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, Czech Republic, Niger
Areas of intervention
Educational Finance
Performance (financial, social and environmental)
Research and industry benchmarks and news platform open to industry, peers, academia.
Sector mapping
Academic research
Risk management
Microfinance investment vehicles
Capital/equity investments
Evaluation
Impact and performances studies
Management information systems
Graduation of MFIs
