A Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)-managed fund invested USD 6 million in the expansion of Georgia’s largest supermarket chain this July. SEAF’s Caucasus Growth Fund (CGF) made the debt and equity investment in Ioli Gastronomy, the fund’s first investment since closing in March. Ioli has used the...
Abhay Cotex Award PR NEW DELHI — The government of India honored Abhay Cotex Private Limited (“ACPL” or “The Company”), an agribusiness firm and one of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds‘ (SEAF) investments, for its innovative technique of cottonseed oil processing and extraction this winter. The Minister of...
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”) announced today that its Vietnamese investment fund, the SEAF Blue Waters Growth Fund (the “Fund”), has invested in Phuong Chau Hospital, an obstetrics and gynecology hospital located in Can Tho, the largest city in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The Fund’s USD 2.9 million...
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”) announced today that the fund it manages in Georgia, the Georgia Regional Development Fund (the “Fund”), has invested in Ritseula Hesi, a small hydropower plant operator in the western Racha state in Georgia. The Fund’s USD 3 million investment in...
A-Net PR Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”) announced today that its Georgian investment fund, the Georgia Regional Development Fund (the “Fund”), invested USD 2.2 million in A-Net, an internet service provider (ISP) in the Adjara region. The Fund’s investment in the small and medium enterprise (SME)...
For Immediate Release Contact: Katherine H. Wheeler kwheeler@seaf.com August 9, 2011 Dehli, India – Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”) announced today that the SEAF India Agribusiness Fund (the “Fund”) has invested in Abhay Cotex Private Limited (“ACPL” or the “Company”), a Jalna, Maharastra-based, company extracting edible oil, high protein de-oiled...
In an OpEd piece for the Daily Sun, SEAF Bangladesh Ventures’ Managing Partner Fahim Ahmed identifies a lack of available capital as “the key factor that constrains the growth of SMEs in Bangladesh” and discusses the various limitations of traditional financing sources that contribute to...
VCCIRCLE covers SEAF’s most recent investment in Tropolite Foods Pvt Ltd, a Gwalior-based food ingredients company. To read the article, please click here or download it from the link above....
In his welcome address at the IFC’s 13th Annual Global Private Equity Conference: The New Investment Climate in Emerging Markets, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick highlighted SEAF’s global operations and SEAF Bangladesh Ventures (SEAF BV), a partner initiative between SEAF and the IFC. Zoellick...
SEAF Bangladesh Ventures LLC (SEAF BV) announced that it has executed an agreement to invest approximately USD 0.5 million in Solar Intercontinental (SOLARIC) Ltd., a developer of renewable energy technology and products. This marks the second investment of SEAF BV, an investment company based in...
