ORIGIN FUNDING PARTNERS
Attractive, stable investment returns. Positive social and economic impact.
Origin Funding Partners is a regulated, private credit investment firm that helps institutional investors access attractive, stable investment returns while making a positive impact in some of the world’s poorest communities.
We focus on high quality, primary origination. We understand that to attract private capital to impact investing, the investment has to make sense independently of the impact thesis. This ensures inflows to the sector, as well as a healthy growth rate on the assets already allocated. This can be recycled into the next impactful opportunity.
100+
$10bn+
100+
YEARS OF COMBINED DIRECT EM CREDIT EXPERIENCE
DEEP NETWORKS IN AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA
$10bn+
PRIMARILY EXPORT CROPS FROM AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA
High quality, primary origination. Meaningful impact.
Origin Funding Partners was founded by experienced financial professionals from various emerging market investment teams, looking to apply their skills in a socially conscious way, while putting investors first.
Our Mission:
Create or support 150,000 human livelihoods in Africa and Latin America by 2025
FOOD SYSTEMS & FOOD SECURITY
IN THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
WHY INVEST IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE?
Africa accounts for 60 percent of uncultivated land globally
There’s an abundance of arable land, but a shortage of capital (opposite to the Middle East).
Close to European and Middle Eastern consumers.
More than 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is smallholder farmers, and about 23 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP comes from agriculture.
Rising urbanisation and the growth of urban middle-class consumers in Africa could lead to $645 billion in growth in consumer spending between 2015 and 2025.
PRIMARILY EXPORT CROPS FROM AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA
WHY INVEST IN LATAM AGRICULTURE?
Latin America is the world’s largest food producing region with many large and established exporters. The region supplies 33 percent of China’s food and is the largest supplier to the US.
Latin America has the greatest amount of fresh water.
As global populations increase and diets become richer and more protein-heavy, the world is relying on Latin America to provide much of the shortfall.
Certain jurisdictions have strong climatic advantages making them world leaders in food production. Brazil and Argentina are leaders in soya and grains while Peru and Chile remain dominant in the fishing sector.
There is opportunity to finance these existing global players at a time when local funding remains scarce.
PRIMARILY EXPORT CROPS FROM AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA
COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM
TEAM
11 staff and 7 investment professionals across 6 countries.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
UNEMPLOYMENT IN AFRICA
INSIGHTS
Changing the future of migration by investing in food security in Africa
SDG’s Progress: The Good, The Bad and The Solutions (Part 1)
SDG’s Progress: 11 Years left to the 2030 deadline (Part 2)
Why Impact Investing Matters for Emerging Economies - Financing the SDG’s
African Agriculture - The gateway to food security in the Middle East
Food Systems and Food Security in the Middle East and Africa
Africa once more in the sights of superpowers
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It’s lonely among these 2 billion people, and that makes for great opportunities.
