GBF is an integrated platform, not a single fund. Our programs window supports early-stage enterprises with financing and structured business support. Our investment window provides patient mezzanine capital for growth-stage enterprises. Technical assistance is the connective layer across both, embedding financial management, governance, and operational support at every stage of growth. Together, they form a single pipeline: programs build the enterprises that the investment vehicle finances and exits prove the model to commercial markets. This architecture exists because the missing middle is not just a financing gap. It is an ecosystem failure that requires a platform operating across the full spectrum.
High-potential SMEs in the “missing middle” often fall between microfinance and commercial bank lending due to size, risk profile, and limited collateral.
We design financing that fits their growth cycle. Loans from $100,000 to $3 million, with grace periods, repayment terms tied to revenue, and local currency options. As repayments come in, we recycle capital into new investments.
We partner with business owners before, during, and after investment, strengthening systems upfront and remaining engaged as they scale.
GBF offers tailored support in financial management, strategy, governance, environmental and social practices, and legal/compliance systems.
Enterprises come to GBF at the stage that fits them and move forward as they grow from program support to structured investment to commercial bank financing. Technical assistance runs alongside at every stage, building the financial systems, governance, and operational capacity that each next step requires. Across our portfolio, exited companies go on to mobilise more capital than what GBF originally deployed. The goal is not to keep enterprises in our portfolio. It is to make them ready for the capital that would otherwise never reach them.
