Impact Projects
Impact Projects & SPVs
Our core business: raising capital through purpose-built SPVs for high-impact African projects worth $5M–$20M — connecting bankable opportunities with the investors who want exposure to real assets and measurable impact.
The Problem We Solve
Africa does not lack capital, and it does not lack ambition. What is missing is the structure that lets the two meet: well-prepared projects, ring-fenced in vehicles investors can trust, with governance and reporting they recognise.
Too many genuinely impactful projects never get funded — not because they lack merit, but because no one did the work to make them investable.
Ubuntu Capital does that work — and puts its own capital behind the result.
How We Work
Origination & Selection
We identify and originate high-impact projects with target market values of $5M–$20M — often opportunities we have shaped ourselves, like Umoja. We only advance projects that can stand on their commercial and impact merits.
SPV Structuring
For each project we establish a purpose-built special purpose vehicle (SPV) that ring-fences the asset, defines the capital stack, and gives investors clean, direct exposure with clear governance and reporting.
Capital Raising & Syndication
We bring the right investors into each SPV — development finance institutions, family offices, impact funds, and private capital — and manage the raise from term sheet to close.
Oversight & Reporting
We stay involved after close, monitoring delivery, tracking financial and impact performance, and reporting transparently to investors throughout the life of the project.
Capital Structures We Use
Equity via SPV
Investors take direct equity exposure to a single project through its SPV, with returns linked to the asset's performance.
Blended Finance
We combine concessional and commercial capital so that catalytic funding de-risks a project enough to crowd in private investors.
DFI & Senior Debt
Where appropriate, we layer in senior debt from development finance institutions and lenders to optimise the cost of capital.
Grants & Catalytic Capital
Non-repayable funding from multilateral institutions and climate funds, used to fund early-stage development and reduce risk.
Co-Investment
We invest our own capital alongside our investors — so our incentives are aligned with the outcome, not just the transaction.