Innovative Social Investments
Inqo Investments is a Social Impact Investment company operating in sub Saharan Africa
Investing for Impact Since 2001
Diverse Portfolio of High Impact Investments
Extensive Network of Investors and Networks
Publicly Listed on the Aquis Exchange
The Business of Transforming Lives
Investing for Social Impact
We believe that enterprise is the best way to tackle poverty through creating sustainable employment that empowers the poor and transforms communities. We invest in entrepreneurs and businesses that intentionally seek to have a positive social impact. Social impact can take the form of job creation , tackling a social need or providing important products and services to low income earners.
Investing for Environmental Benefit
The world’s poor are disproportionately affected by the impacts of environmental degradation. As such, we believe that environmental issues and social issues are highly interrelated. Environmental impact is not a pre-requisite for all our investments, but we proactively seek investments that have both a positive social as well as environmental impact.
Investment Portfolio
Kuzuko Lodge
Kuzuko Lodge is a five-star luxury lodge and private game reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Kuzuko was established with the explicit aim of creating jobs in a region of endemic poverty and high unemployment. In addition to its social impact, Kuzuko is a successful conservation project.
Kentegra Biotechnology
Kentegra Biotechnology is a Kenyan based biotechnology firm producing the organic pyrethrum pesticide from chrysanthemum flowers. Kentegra subcontracts smallholder farmers using an outgrower model. Farmers are able to earn around four times more with pyrethrum than with traditional cash crops.
Mazima Pension Fund
Mazima Retirement Plan is a voluntary retirement savings scheme for low income workers currently not served by the traditional financial sector. Mazima aggregates savings allowing them to offer small scale savers much higher interest rates than they could otherwise access.
Spekboom Trading
Spekboom Trading is an environmental restoration company in South Africa. Spekboom Trading aims to re-forest 14,000 acres with indigenous spekboom thicket, a plant with exceptional carbon sequestration qualities funded through carbon credits. The project will generate local jobs as well as environmental benefits.
Sanergy
Sanergy is an innovative circular economy recycling company in Nairobi, Kenya. Sanergy collects organic waste from its 3,300 franchised toilets plus organic food waste from restaurants and converts them t into organic fertiliser and high protein animal feed using black soldier flies. Sanergy creates significant social and environmental benefits.
South Lake Medical Centre
South Lake Medical Centre is a hospital serving low income workers around Lake Naivasha, Kenya. SLMC fills an important gap in healthcare services that the local government hospital is currently unable to fulfil. As well as vital healthcare services, SLMC manages the care for HIV patients under the PEPFAR programme.
Bee Sweet Honey
Bee Sweet Honey is a honey production company based in Zambia that provides beehives to 9,000 smallholder farmers producing around 300 metric tons of forest honey for export each year. The beehives provide farmers valuable extra income and incentivise them to conserve forests and pollinator populations.