SF Fund

The ‘SF Fund’ (Standard Financials Fund) invest in early stage firms with proven high growth potentials.

We focus mainly on Start-ups & small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) upon which our investment and partnership will mark a significant turning point on the company’s growth.

If you are an entrepreneur focus on expanding your operations towards growth and profitability, then, the SF Fund maybe the right investor for you.  We encourage investors interested in this region to invest in our fund as we target up to 25% return on most of our ventures.

 

CRITERIA

We only invest in ventures with the following characteristics

• Start-ups or SMEs with high growth potentials characterized by innovation and creativity.
• A proven, reliable and satisfactory revenue generation model
• Ventures with ‘clean’ balance sheets having less debts and free from financial entanglements.
• The founders must have shown commitment by already investing a relatively significant amount into the venture.
• A strong management team with a proven technical and managerial capacity to pilot the firm towards its vision
• In addition to the above, we prioritized ventures with bigger impacts on the economy relative to employment capacity, multiplier effect, environmental benefits etc.

 

STRATEGY

• We operate an enterprise incubation unit with facilities that will attract the best start-ups within the country and region. Through this incubation process, our expertise assist in strengthening the business model, operations, revenue generation process and overall strategy of these start-ups. This is the gate way to our eventual equity investment into these startups. Investment into existing SMEs will be based on the set of criteria mentioned above.
• Our fund target an average of 15 to 25% annual return.
• SF Fund exit strategy entails selling back its equity to the company or to any other qualified investor at the right time between the 3rd and 5th year.

 

RISK MANAGEMENT

• Risk management is at the core of our strategy. Although opportunities are abound, we recognize that the environment is highly unstructured and difficult to anticipate. Our focus is to be able to contain risk in a way that it doesn’t erode our return expectations
• Diversification is an important tool for us. We invest conservatively within different categories of ventures in different sectors. We invest a maximum of 20% of the fund at our disposal to any single project and a maximum of 30% to any given sector.
• All our investment decisions are well researched by our investment experts and validated at the level of board. With ongoing reporting and monitoring throughout the investment cycle, we are better place to deal with any risk.