OGIC 4.0 deploys growth capital and structured financing across three complementary pillars — each targeting a structural transformation opportunity in West Africa's green industrial economy.
Having worked to grow SMEs in Africa for over a decade — using a range of innovative financing mechanisms to build equity and consolidate value chains — our team has engaged with large, profitable SMEs that show great potential to scale to the next level.
These businesses are ready to transition from semi-artisanal production to industrialization, and from serving local markets to expanding internationally. They have well-structured middle management teams, produce essential goods, are profitable, and operate in markets with minimal local competition.
The build-up strategy consists in investing directly in essential physical assets and infrastructure shared by various actors including portfolio companies — storage, cold chain, energy, digital infrastructure. This generates stable, recurring cash flows while accelerating portfolio company growth.
Stable recurring cash flows based on rents, optimizing the overall yield profile of the fund.
Essential physical assets are resilient to economic cycles, improving fund risk profile.
Portfolio companies access essential infrastructure at favorable conditions to boost market capture.
Direct investments in physical assets and infrastructure providing essential services to portfolio companies and various stakeholders — storage, cold chain, energy systems, digital infrastructure.
Sharing assets among actors to optimize utilization rates, ease access to unreachable infrastructure, open new markets, and capture more value in the production chain.
Multiple business models based on lease, lease-and-buy-back, community lease, utilization or volume-based pricing, and right-of-use financing — generating stable recurring cash flows.
Investments in agriculture modernization, industrialization, manufacturing, storage, transformation, conservation, electricity production and distribution, and digital assets.
Growth capital to finance green transformation and social impacts
Growth capital to accompany expansion to new markets related to the green transition
Structured financing to improve cost structure and long-term competitiveness
