01.
Our Vision
The most trustworthy investor and owner in African businesses
MTI Investment is an Africa focused investment company taking active ownership in high-quality small and medium enterprises capturing the continent’s mega trends; a rapidly expanding middle class, urbanisation, and food security. MTI is currently operating two investment strategies. The growth portfolio aimed at building pre-seed stage businesses into profitable growth stories and an investment portfolio containing mature companies with established cash flows and growing Net Asset Value.
Our purpose-driven mindset guides us toward investing in businesses where the returns delivered to our shareholders are closely accompanied by sustainable job creation and long-term economic growth. By working actively with management teams and conducting a rigorous due diligence process, MTIs portfolio of companies safeguards strong governance structures, ensures a positive impact on societies and reduces the harm on fragile ecosystems.
02.
Investment selection
We are not limited to any one sector, but pursue investment in firms that have potential for scale economy and development of a strong market position through brand names and distribution capacity.
Our investment approach at MTI Investment is underpinned by finding the highest quality businesses in the region. Through our multi-portfolio approach we are ensuring that we have
enough time to evaluate a business before the investment decision is made and given a chance to develop weak areas in each business to ensure investment readiness.
Once we have invested, our post-investment support focus on scale through strategic advice, business development, access to external markets, and financial control. This active management is integral to creating an African center of excellence where we are delivering on our commitment to not only become the most trustworthy investor, but also owner.
In our sourcing we look for entrepreneurs and management teams that have deep sector knowledge, commitment to transparent governance structures and a long-term mindset.
We look at our investments as partnerships where it’s important that MTI can add value as an investor beyond capital. This leads us to invest in sectors and value chains where we have
sufficient expertise to bring outside market linkages, expansion advice, and risk control.
We believe entrepreneurship can come from anyone who can identify a problem that a customer is willing to pay and shows the right characteristics to take on the challenge of building a business. This leads us to look for businesses in both urban and rural settings, academic background or not which is enabled by our presence across the region.
03.
Investment process
Our investment process rests on four pillars: Consumer Driven, Scalable, Strong Governance, Grit
SOLVING A CRITICAL BOTTLE-NECK FOR A
CONSUMER DRIVEN VALUE CHAIN
We look for founders with domain expertise and experience
from the industry who are looking to solve problems
influencing the affordability and quality of products and
services provided to the wider populations.
STRONG GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
Any business associated with MTI undergoes a rigorous due
diligence of health and safety standards, environmental
impact, anti-corruption and transparency. We perform
regular internal controls to ensure compliance with these
standards.
SCALABLE SOLUTIONS APPLYING LOW-COST
TECHNOLOGIES
With broad availability of AI, mobile connectivity and high
degree of smartphone penetration we invest in businesses
that utilises these tools to quickly reach more customers and
sees it as a natural part of the growth journey
GRIT
We believe exceptional founders are the ones that not just
working hard, it is the intersection of long-term passion and
extreme persistence where consistency is prioritised over
intensity and the mindset of doing more with less dominates
04.
Investment offer to the investors
We offer private individuals and institutional investors an opportunity to take part in the value creation among high-growth small and medium-sized firms in Eastern Africa.
We offer our investors:
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- A business model with low costs that takes advantage of university-based networks
- The financial objective of maximizing value-creating to shareholders through dividends and value appreciation
05.
Investment offer to the companies
We provide our cooperative partners with capital, support in their corporate governance and help to further improve financial reporting.
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- This is made typically by board membership from one of the MTI investment partners
- MTI invests through equity investment, or convertible debt
- We do not offer debt financing