We are an impact-driven venture builder that is purposefully designed to generate businesses that address Africa’s most pressing challenges. We solve important problems for underserved communities and use human ingenuity to generate value to improve the human condition.
We are not into the growth-at-all costs approach and the unicorn-chasing gospel pioneered by Silicon Valley. We specialize in profitable micro and small scale enterprises built from scratch to tackle the needs of those left behind, and grow our enterprises in a way that is sustainable and consistent with achieving positive social, environmental and economic impact. We prioritize sustainability and resilience.
We cannot be satisfied with easy answers to the complex challenges and problems currently facing our communities. If we want to tackle the major social, environmental and economic issues of our times, we must ask deeper questions, challenge the status quo, reexamine the conventional and reject irrelevant strategies. For this reason, our approach is intentionally tailored to our continent’s particular context and unique needs.
At amisi & company, we have integrated entrepreneurship, impact investment, economic development and purpose into our Venture Builder model. We foster a portfolio of innovative impact businesses that confront social challenges in greater-need communities, create jobs, and grow local economies. With our model, we strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem, unlock more equitable wealth, generate positive impact as well as financial returns; and ultimately help advance a flourishing society.
A Venture Builder is a unique type of a company that specializes in creating and launching new businesses using its own ideas, resources, and its own in-house entrepreneurial team. Briefly defined, it is a company that builds companies.
Investments made with the intention of generating positive, measurable social and environmental impact, while also delivering attractive financial returns.
“Economic development” means different things to different people, regions, and countries. Briefly, it means the creation or generation of wealth from which a community benefits and advancement of society is realized. At amisi & company, we prefer to use the following definition of economic development by Dr. Dell Gines, an Economic Developer:
“Fostering a dynamic environment where economic opportunities can be discovered, taken advantage of and maximized to their fullest extent to create balanced and sustainable economic growth, jobs, a positive sense of place and an improved quality of life in a defined geographic region or with a defined targeted population.”
Our venture builder is a living ecosystem of innovators and change-makers who are driven to improve the human condition.
Like a well-oiled machine, the force multiplication of entrepreneurial know-how, diverse professional skills and collective experience enable an agile entrepreneurial environment and a fertile ground for experimentation. Here, our multidisciplinary in-house talents work together in the same working space and share resources in order to create multiple ventures that better meet the deeper needs of under-served and under-invested communities.
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