OUR CRITERIA

Sankofa’s strategy focuses on identifying and investing in tech-centric, asset-light B2B companies with strong growth potential and scalable business models. We prioritize companies with diverse leadership teams and a clear path to profitability, ensuring alignment with our existing ecosystem.

INVESTMENT CRITERIA

  • Strong founding team – preference for gender diversity

  • Tech-centric, asset-light, B2B

  • Large addressable market and ability to scale

  • Good unit economics with a path to profitability

  • Synergies with existing ecosystem

  • Sector agnostic but preference for products/services that promote well-being and financial inclusion for women

DEVELOPMENT IMPACT

The Fund is expected to generate economic multipliers by:

  • Creating jobs and investing in PortCo upskilling;

  • Supporting or establishing gender-diverse leadership;

  • Using in-house scorecard to track ESG performance across the lifetime of investment;

  • Using our knowledge and decades of experience to help shape the new age of digital products and services in Africa; and,

  • Contributing to a more robust, equal, and dynamic business environment – growing the pie!