| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.08.2024 | New policy statement guides Finnfund's investment activities in strengthening natural values and biodiversity | New policy statement guides Finnfund's investment activities in strengthening natural values and biodiversity
Mon, Aug 26, 2024 11:38 CET Report this content
Development financier and impact investor Finnfund has adopted a policy statement ... |
| 15.07.2024 | IFC Deepens Partnership with TerraPay to Boost Access to International Remittances in Africa | Share this:
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| 14.05.2024 | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew up to EUR 830 million – more focus on digitalisation and mobilisation of private capital | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew up to EUR 830 million – more focus on digitalisation and mobilisation of private capital
Tue, May 14, 2024 11:34 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, has... |
| 07.05.2024 | Horizon Capital планирует освоить $350 млн инвестиций в Украине в течение 2 лет, идет поиск проектов | Как известно, в начале 2024 года фонд Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV (HCGF IV) от инвесткомпании Horizon Capital привлек $350 млн для финансирования частных компаний в Украине, увеличив общую сумму активов под управлением до $1,6 млрд.
Сред... |
| 15.04.2024 | Weekly economic index: Mobility startups take the lead in funding, Niger and China’s oil deal, and CBN’s interest rate on treasury bills | Here are three big stories from Africa’s business and policy landscape you (probably) didn’t miss but should keep in mind this week: Mobility Takes the Lead in Africa’s Slow Funding Year.
Mobility startups received the most funding in Q1 20... |
| 10.04.2024 | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in AwanTunai to foster the digitalisation and growth of the MSMEs in Indonesia | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in AwanTunai to foster the digitalisation and growth of the MSMEs in Indonesia
Wed, Apr 10, 2024 08:56 CET Report this content
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, the first Finnish global emerging mark... |
| 14.03.2024 | BII and Finnfund continue their support to women-led micro-enterprises in Pakistan through Kashf Foundation | BII and Finnfund continue their support to women-led micro-enterprises in Pakistan through Kashf Foundation
Thu, Mar 14, 2024 08:00 CET Report this content
Today, both British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance ins... |
| 24.01.2024 | Finnfund issues a EUR 100 million green bond | Finnfund issues a EUR 100 million green bond
Wed, Jan 24, 2024 12:20 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, issues a EUR 100 million green bond.
The 10-year bond bears interest at the rate of ... |
| 28.11.2023 | Finnfund’s Annual Report awarded as the best annual report of the year in Finland | Finnfund’s Annual Report awarded as the best annual report of the year in Finland
Tue, Nov 28, 2023 11:42 CET Report this content
Finnfund’s 2022 Annual Report has been selected as the best annual report of the year in the “Oma Media” compe... |
| 04.10.2023 | Finnfund invests in Metier Capital Growth Fund III to foster growth companies and job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Finnfund invests in Metier Capital Growth Fund III to foster growth companies and job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wed, Oct 04, 2023 08:57 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, has announce... |
| 22.08.2023 | Finnfund and DFC commit US$15 million in equity and loan financing to Kentegra Biotechnology to boost the expansion of pyrethrin production in Kenya | Finnfund and DFC commit US$15 million in equity and loan financing to Kentegra Biotechnology to boost the expansion of pyrethrin production in Kenya
Tue, Aug 22, 2023 13:44 CET Report this content
Kentegra Biotechnology was founded in 2017 ... |
| 15.06.2023 | Finnfund and FMO back SATYA MicroCapital with USD 35 million to make formal finance more accessible to women in India | Finnfund and FMO back SATYA MicroCapital with USD 35 million to make formal finance more accessible to women in India
Thu, Jun 15, 2023 08:36 CET Report this content
Finnfund, the Finnish development financier and impact investor, and FMO, ... |
| 31.05.2023 | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew with a profitable result | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew with a profitable result
Wed, May 31, 2023 08:03 CET Report this content
Finnfund is a development financier and impact investor. Last year, the company’s investment portfolio grew from EUR 780 million t... |
| 26.05.2023 | Frontier markets are facing a credit crunch and heightened risk of debt distress | Frontier markets are facing a credit crunch and heightened risk of debt distress
Fri, May 26, 2023 08:20 CET Report this content
During the last decade, new sources of financing opened, especially for those lower-income countries catching u... |
| 20.03.2023 | Finnfund invests in Evolution III to foster the availability of clean energy and climate mitigation in Africa | Finnfund invests in Evolution III to foster the availability of clean energy and climate mitigation in Africa
Mon, Mar 20, 2023 09:34 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, has announced a USD... |
| 16.12.2022 | Finnfund and MLR Forestal to work on an innovative biodiversity remediation programme in Nicaragua | Finnfund and MLR Forestal to work on an innovative biodiversity remediation programme in Nicaragua
Fri, Dec 16, 2022 18:26 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, and MLR Forestal, a Nicaraguan... |
| 23.11.2022 | KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa | Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, t... |
| 21.07.2022 | Norfund joins Norsk Solar and Finnfund as partner in Nordic Impact Cooperation AS, an investment platform for C&I solar projects in high-growth markets | Norfund joins Norsk Solar and Finnfund as partner in Nordic Impact Cooperation AS, an investment platform for C&I solar projects in high-growth markets
Thu, Jul 21, 2022 07:00 CET Report this content
– Stavanger and Oslo: Norsk Solar (“... |
| 13.05.2022 | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew up to 780 million euros | Finnfund’s investment portfolio grew up to 780 million euros
Fri, May 13, 2022 10:43 CET Report this content
Finnufund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, has published its Annual Report for 2021. Despite the challenging s... |
| 15.04.2022 | Finnfund invests in Valency International to foster sustainable cashew production in Côte d’Ivoire | Finnfund invests in Valency International to foster sustainable cashew production in Côte d’Ivoire
Fri, Apr 15, 2022 07:39 CET Report this content
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and an impact investor, announces today a USD 10 mi... |
| 09.02.2022 | Finnfund opens its first regional office in Nairobi, Kenya | Finnfund opens its first regional office in Nairobi, Kenya
Wed, Feb 09, 2022 12:33 CET Report this content
CEO Jaakko Kangasniemi: "Africa is the place to be for European development financiers"
The Finnish development financier a... |
| 19.11.2021 | Agtech innovation will be key to Kenya’s Covid-19 economic recovery | Kenya has emerged as a hotspot for agtech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than 100 solutions in the market driving growth, productivity, and sustainability in the agrifood value chain.
Companies like Twiga Foods, Apollo Agricult... |
| 08.11.2021 | Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience | New multimillion dollar commitments and strategic collaborative actions to overcome key hurdles to private investment in climate adaptation and resilience in developing and emerging countries. |
| 08.11.2021 | Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience | New multimillion dollar commitments and strategic collaborative actions to overcome key hurdles to private investment in climate adaptation and resilience in developing and emerging countries. |
| 08.11.2021 | Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience | New multimillion dollar commitments and strategic collaborative actions to overcome key hurdles to private investment in climate adaptation and resilience in developing and emerging countries. |
| 05.11.2021 | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in CIM Santé Group to support the development of the private healthcare sector in Morocco | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in CIM Santé Group to support the development of the private healthcare sector in Morocco Fri, Nov 05, 2021 07:14 CET
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, the first Finnish global emerging markets impac... |
| 12.10.2021 | Finnfund and University of Helsinki to invest together into microfinancing in Africa and Asia | Finnfund and University of Helsinki to invest together into microfinancing in Africa and Asia Tue, Oct 12, 2021 08:40 CET
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, announce today a EUR 10 million debt facility commitmen... |
| 06.10.2021 | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in Sathapana Bank, Cambodia, to accelerate SME growth and women empowerment | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in Sathapana Bank, Cambodia, to accelerate SME growth and women empowerment Wed, Oct 06, 2021 09:03 CET
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, the first global emerging markets impact fund in Finland, inv... |
| 13.08.2021 | Finnfund’s investment in digital connectivity dramatically increases access to internet in East, Central and South Africa | Finnfund’s investment in digital connectivity dramatically increases access to internet in East, Central and South Africa Fri, Aug 13, 2021 09:44 CET
Finnfund provides a 12 million US dollar senior loan to Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group... |
| 02.06.2021 | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in EthioChicken, a forerunner in African poultry farming | OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I invests in EthioChicken, a forerunner in African poultry farming Wed, Jun 02, 2021 07:37 CET
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, the first global emerging markets impact fund in Finland, invests USD 5 million ... |
| 16.02.2021 | CDC and Finnfund invest in microfinance pioneer to drive women entrepreneurship in Pakistan | CDC Group, the UK’s publicly owned impact investor and Finnfund, the Finnish development financier and impact investor, have provided a US$25 million senior unsecured loan facility to Kashf Foundation, one of the leading microfinance instit... |
| 04.02.2021 | Phatisa Food Fund 2 reaches $143million final close from DFI commitments | A group of leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and impact investors – CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO – announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 (PFF 2 or the Fund), managed by Phatisa.... |
| 02.07.2020 | CDC Group and Finnfund commit US$70 million to AfricInvest Fund IV | CDC Group and Finnfund today announce a US$70 million commitment to AfricInvest Fund IV, a generalist pan-African fund aiming to foster the growth of African enterprises across the continent. CDC, the UK’s impact investor and development fi... |
| 02.07.2020 | CDC Group and Finnfund commit US$70 million to AfricInvest Fund IV | CDC Group and Finnfund today announce a US$70 million commitment to AfricInvest Fund IV, a generalist pan-African fund aiming to foster the growth of African enterprises across the continent. CDC, the UK’s impact investor and development fi... |
| 02.07.2020 | CDC Group and Finnfund commit US$70 million to AfricInvest Fund IV | CDC Group and Finnfund today announce a US$70 million commitment to AfricInvest Fund IV, a generalist pan-African fund aiming to foster the growth of African enterprises across the continent. CDC, the UK’s impact investor and development fi... |
| 02.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [02/04/2020] | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that provides hygiene and self-care products to women in East Africa, which could prove vital under Covid-19.
A number of other tech startups ha... |
| 02.04.2020 | Women’s e-commerce platform Kasha gains new investment for expansion | Share this:
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| 02.04.2020 | Finnfund invests $1m in East African ecommerce site Kasha | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that aims to improves women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa.
Kasha was founded in Rwanda in 2016 by two forme... |
| 02.04.2020 | Finnfund invests $1m in East African ecommerce site Kasha | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that aims to improves women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa.
Kasha was founded in Rwanda in 2016 by two former... |
| 02.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [02/04/2020] | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that provides hygiene and self-care products to women in East Africa, which could prove vital under Covid-19.
A number of other tech startups h... |
| 13.03.2020 | The Finnish founder behind €3.4m deal who fell in love with Africa’s unique challenges | For Finnish founder Jussi Hinkkanen — whose edtech startup Fuzu announced this week that it had closed a €3.4-million Series-A round — the ability to create and capture the market, makes Africa a very attractive place to be as a startup fou... |
| 13.03.2020 | The Finnish founder behind €3.4m deal who fell in love with Africa’s unique challenges | For Finnish founder Jussi Hinkkanen — whose edtech startup Fuzu announced this week that it had closed a €3.4-million Series-A round — the ability to create and capture the market, makes Africa a very attractive place to be as a startup fou... |
| 18.09.2018 | SA fintech JUMO closes $52m round led by Goldman Sachs | SA fintech JUMO today announced the close of an equity funding round of $52-million led by Goldman Sachs.
Also participating in the round were Proparco, the private sector financing arm of the French Development Agency (AFD), Finnfund, Vost... |
| 18.09.2018 | SA fintech JUMO closes $52m round led by Goldman Sachs | SA fintech JUMO today announced the close of an equity funding round of $52-million led by Goldman Sachs.
Also participating in the round were Proparco, the private sector financing arm of the French Development Agency (AFD), Finnfund, Vos... |
| 19.07.2018 | SA fintech JUMO secures first two commitments in new funding round | SA fintech JUMO has secured equity funding from French development agency Proparco and Finnish development finance company Finnfund — the first commitments to a new funding round, the startup’s founder Andrew Watkins-Ball revealed yesterday... |
| 19.07.2018 | SA fintech JUMO secures first two commitments in new funding round | SA fintech JUMO has secured equity funding from French development agency Proparco and Finnish development finance company Finnfund — the first commitments to a new funding round, the startup’s founder Andrew Watkins-Ball revealed yesterday... |
| 17.07.2018 | Five SA tech startups that are expanding into the rest of Africa [Updated] | South African tech startups are slowly waking up to the massive untapped market that is the rest of the continent.
If data from Ventureburn’s 2017 tech startup survey is anything to go by, an increasing percentage of tech startups are look... |
| 17.07.2018 | Five SA tech startups that are expanding into the rest of Africa [Updated] | South African tech startups are slowly waking up to the massive untapped market that is the rest of the continent.
If data from Ventureburn’s 2017 tech startup survey is anything to go by, an increasing percentage of tech startups are looki... |
| 14.11.2017 | Funder’s focus on making social impact key in $24m deal says JUMO founder | South African fintech startup JUMO opted to go to Finnish development finance company Finnfund for debt funding, because the financier is “very ethical” and “focused on making meaningful social impact”, says the startup’s founder and CEO An... |
| 14.11.2017 | Funder’s focus on making social impact key in $24m deal says JUMO founder | South African fintech startup JUMO opted to go to Finnish development finance company Finnfund for debt funding, because the financier is “very ethical” and “focused on making meaningful social impact”, says the startup’s founder and CEO An... |
| 08.12.2016 | Top African technology news for December 8, 2016 | 11. PayGo solar firm, Azuri, has partnered with Zuku to launch a solar satellite TV package for Kenyan homes
UK-based Azuri Technologies, partnered with Kenyan home entertainment satellite provider, Zuku, to launch the solar satellite TV pa... |
| 03.12.2016 | Finnish career platform Fuzu raises €1.8 million to expand in Africa | Finnish startup Fuzu, a mobile-first platform for career development, recruitment and learning, has received €1.8 million from FinnFund. The funding will go toward business development and expansion in emerging markets in Africa and Asia.
F... |
| 02.12.2016 | Fuzu Raises €1.8M in Funding | Fuzu, a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile-first career development platform focused on emerging economies, raised €1.8m in funding.
FinnFund made the investment.
The company will use the funds to continue to expand operations in the emerging m... |
| - | Finnfund | “Finnfund invests in responsible and profitable companies in developing countries. We offer capital, mezzanine or long-term loans.” |
