The Framework

To unlock private investments in West Africa and many other world regions, connectivity isn't enough. Structure is mandatory.

bettterfunds will create a seamless workflow in which every stakeholder plays a decisive role in closing this structural gap.

We are building bettterfunds to help ensure that SMEs and public project sponsors can access capital more easily and in view of a potentially higher success rate.

bettterfunds will generate a pipeline of potentially investment-ready SMEs and projects, while providing information on funding gaps, needs and opportunities.

For those with investment needs

bettterfunds is building a digital matchmaking platform for prospective investees and public projects sponsors looking for funding.

The platform will matchmake their investment needs with the very funds they are eligible for. They will access a curated pool of Private Equity, Venture Capital, and International Financing Institutions.

For intermediaries

bettterfunds positions itself as an intermediary of intermediaries – these intermediaries are mainly strategic advisors who will scale their mandate execution and access 'Investment-Ready' deals to support and take to a global network of private funders set by bettterfunds.

We will:

  • support them in conducting their due diligence, by preparing investment cases’ due diligence via an Artificial Intelligence solution
  • feed them with quality-controlled investment proposals and potentially bankable projects
  • link them up with established and new thematic funds and investors
  • provide them with information about promising SMEs who could become investment-ready

For funds & investors

The bettterfunds proprietary database already contains hundreds of thematic funds which our digital platform will matchmake with investment proposals.

The bettterfunds platform presents these funds in a standardised and highly efficient and

transparent manner as to support and feed into their project pipeline.

Funds and investors will access a proprietary pipeline of off-market opportunities. Review dossiers structured by certified advisors to accelerate your due diligence.

For funds of funds, donor countries, and DFIs

bettterfunds aims to ultimately collaborate with funds of funds, donor countries and Development Finance Institutions in order to support the conceptualisation and outreach of their thematic funds as well as the prioritisation of their overall investment policies.

At bettterfunds we believe that many thematic funds can benefit from, and improve their performance, via clearer and more transparent information about their criteria and eligibility; at the same time, funding requests and investment proposals from governments as well as the

private sector often suffer from insufficient concepts and mismatching the funds’ and investors’ criteria. bettterfunds will collect the related data and make them available to funds of funds and others.

As an intermediary, bettterfunds will bring different stakeholders together and support them in achieving their respective objectives, in view of increasing and improving investments in often underfunded sectors, industries and geographical regions.