{"id":191,"date":"2023-01-25T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:59:54","slug":"agf-partners-with-crowdfunding-platform-to-increase-impact-investing-for-smes-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/agf-partners-with-crowdfunding-platform-to-increase-impact-investing-for-smes-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AGF partners with crowdfunding platform to increase impact investing for SMEs in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-partnerships tag-news tag-sme-financing tag-impact tag-impact-investing tag-fintech\">\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">African Guarantee Fund (AGF) has today partnered with Frankfurt-based bettervest, a crowdfunding platform, to increase financing of sustainable SME projects in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>AGF will provide partial guarantees requested by bettervest, on the basis of risk sharing, in respect of defaults arising from credit facilities offered to African SMEs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking on the new partnership, AGF Group CEO Jules Ngankam said, \u201c<em>Partnering with a crowdfunding platform and Fintech is in line with our strategy for the coming years and represents a unique development opportunity for innovative financing. Through our risk-sharing mechanism, the partnership with bettervest will have a positive impact on Africa\u2019s green economic transition<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>By cooperating with the African Guarantee Fund, we have come much closer to our goal of also letting our investors benefit from the valuable instrument of a default guarantee and thus perhaps directing more investments to the African continent. This partnership is a milestone for our company<\/em>\u201d, says Marilyn Heib, CEO of bettervest GmbH.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The aim of this partnership is to further increase the attractiveness of impact investments, which therefore makes a valuable contribution to the planet and its people. As with any type of investment, impact investing is not free of risks. If a project fails, the worst-case scenario is the loss of the investment amount. The partial guarantee provided by African Guarantee Fund will help to mitigate the risk of default.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<section class=\"gh-container is-grid gh-outer\">\n<div class=\"gh-container-inner gh-inner\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This partnership will increase the attractiveness of impact investments, which therefore makes a valuable contribution to the planet and its people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-economy","tag-partnerships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/agf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}