Private Investors
InReturn is very proud to have commitments from 36 private investors. Most of these successful entrepreneurs have prior experience with SME investments, and all aim for both social and financial returns. We encourage and enable all our investors to become actively involved in guiding and monitoring the SME entrepreneurs.
Institutional Investors
Cordaid combines experience and expertise gained through more than 90 years in emergency aid and structural poverty eradication, as well as more than 15 years financing entrepreneurial organisations in developing countries. One of the largest international development organisations, Cordaid spends Euro 155 million in 36 countries each year. Cordaid's Entrepreneurship sector focuses on improving economic perspectives for low-income people. With an annual budget of Euro 30 million, the sector manages a Euro 60 million portfolio of loans, guarantees and equity investments in developing countries. Cordaid’s investment in the InReturn East Africa Fund acts as an accelerator to private investors and stimulates SME investments, since SMEs are the job creating motor in developing countries.
www.cordaid.nl
DOEN Foundation is the fund of three Dutch charity lotteries: the Dutch Postcode Lottery, the BankGiro Lottery and the Sponsor Bingo Lottery. DOEN works towards the achievement of a livable world in which everyone has a place by supporting initiatives that are sustainable, entrepreneurial and/or extraordinary. A portion of the contributions made by the Dutch National Postcode Lottery is used by DOEN Foundation to improve access to financial services in developing countries as part of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship programme. The aim of DOEN Foundation is to improve the supply of financial services to new microfinance and SME investment initiatives, and to promote sustainable initiatives that strengthen the financial sector. DOEN considers access to finance an important tool for sustainable development and civil society building. It helps small- and medium-sized enterprises to further develop their economic activities, guaranteeing a better income and raising the overall standard of living for the entrepreneur, family and employees.
www.doen.nl
