Top international financial institutions teamed up with Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) to support local businesses with private equity financing in the Caucasus region this Spring, after launching the Caucasus Growth Fund on March 30, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The EBRD (the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
SEAF Globalturk press release313 On December 20, 2012, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) and Globalturk Capital (Globalturk) have announced a partnership to discover and invest in qualified SMEs in Turkey. The collaboration will focus on companies with strong business models and proven technologies, with goals to...
SEAF Macedonia II press release FINAL 121812 Macedonia 2025 has partnered with Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) to launch the SEAF Macedonia II Fund, with an official agreement signed on October 22, 2012 at the Macedonia Global Investment Summit 2012 held in Ohrid, Macedonia. The fund...
OutsourcingExitPR Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) completed its exit in Outsourcing Peru S.A.C., a logistics firm, this July. The owner of Outsourcing Peru S.A.C. bought Fondo Transandino Peru (FTP)’s 53 percent share in Outsourcing. The exit also marked the first time a SEAF portfolio company has made...
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...
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) along with seven other commercial investment companies announced their sponsorship of the Fast5 Challenge competition in June, a competition intended to bolster small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. The announcement doubled as a call for submissions from SMEs that require...
Gulf International Bank’s Bilal Sethi highlighted Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) as an example of small and medium enterprise (SME) development that he considers important to the Middle East and North Africa region in an article in Zawya on Monday. “An important feature of investing in...
Hidroelectrica PR WASHINGTON, DC — Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”) announced that three SEAF-managed Latin American funds exited their investment in Hidroelectrica Santa Cruz S.A.C (“HSC”), a hydroelectric power plant operator in Peru, in February. Fondo Transandino Peru (“FTP”), Fondo LATAM Peru (“FLP”), and LATAM Growth Fund...
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...
