Idea
The grey zone
Many businesses with customers and margins sit between microcredit and the fund, in what the industry calls the «missing middle». They are too large for one and too small for the other.
Being ready for investment means being ready for a specific capital, and the grey zone leaves out companies with customers and margins.
Read which financial instruments work for a bio-businessIdeas
Other ideas
- The bridgeCapital is abundant in Latin America. What is scarce is the bridge that connects it with the businesses that need it most.
- Investable bio-businesses, for whom?A company is ready for a specific capital. Each funder has its own thesis, its own ticket and its own proof.
- The systemA business scales when its decisions depend on a system of data, costs and processes.
- Financeability X-rayA self-assessment for an SME to know which financing instrument fits it today.
- The order of capitalPhilanthropic, concessional and commercial capital expect different returns and take different risks.