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AlphaSeeds is a philanthropic investment company with an active, hands-on approach in the companies we invest.

Our purpose is to contribute to developing an inclusive, sustainable, and profitable agribusiness industry in Africa by bridging the financing gap for SMEs in that sector.

We manage donations as investments.

Challenges of the African agribusiness industry

Africa agri-SMEs financing gap graph
Africa’s agri-food industry suffers from structural weaknesses: low productivity, lack of food processing capability, and high incidence of food wastage. From 2016 to 2018, Africa imported about 85% of its food from outside the continent, leading to an annual food import bill of US$ 43bn, which is forecasted to reach US$ 110bn by 2025. Even if crop yields have increased, significant investment needs to be channeled into post-harvest handling, including storage and processing, for local food supply to become resilient.
83% of needed financing of Agri-SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa is unmet. There are ~130 thousands of Agri-SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. The current articulated demand of Agri-SMEs is estimated at approximately USD 90 Bn annually in Sub-Saharan Africa of which only USD 15.5 Bn is currently met. Even though agriculture employs up to 60% of the population and accounts for 30% of GDP but the sector receives less than 5% of commercial bank lending and this money only goes to the top of the pyramid.

Challenges of the African agri-food industry

Africa’s agri-food industry suffers from structural weaknesses: low productivity, lack of food processing capability, and high incidence of food wastage. From 2016 to 2018, Africa imported about 85% of its food from outside the continent, leading to an annual food import bill of US$ 43bn, which is forecasted to reach US$ 110bn by 2025. Even if crop yields have increased, significant investment needs to be channeled into post-harvest handling, including storage and processing, for local food supply to become resilient.
83% of needed financing of Agri-SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa is unmet. There are ~130 thousands of Agri-SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. The current articulated demand of Agri-SMEs is estimated at approximately USD 90 Bn annually in Sub-Saharan Africa of which only USD 15.5 Bn is currently met. Even though agriculture employs up to 60% of the population and accounts for 30% of GDP but the sector receives less than 5% of commercial bank lending and this money only goes to the top of the pyramid.
Africa agri-SMEs financing gap graph

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AlphaSeeds’ Story

AlphaSeeds SA is a non-profit investment company established in Switzerland in September 2022, the first of its kind in French-speaking Switzerland, and recognized as rendering a service of public interest.

While funds provided by donors qualify as donations, they are managed by AlphaSeeds as investments. However, no dividends may be paid to shareholders or donors, and any return on investment will be fully reinvested either in the same project or in projects of a similar kind.

Its innovative hybrid nature combining elements of a non-profit organization with sound investment principles, allows AlphaSeeds SA to have a strong financially, socially, and ecologically sustainable impact on local communities.

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