Sensi Impact Fund
Our Impact Investing programme invests in businesses, organizations and funds that we believe have the potential to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. We support entrepreneurs that are working to build relationships between business and the issues around them. We support them by providing access to capital and push them in the direction where they can build a more sustainable economy.
Sensi Impact Fund
Our Impact Investing programme invests in businesses, organizations and funds that we believe have the potential to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. We support entrepreneurs that are working to build relationships between business and the issues around them. We support them by providing access to capital and push them in the direction where they can build a more sustainable economy.
Why impact investing
Impact investing is an excellent tool for us to solve very complex problems in our societies. Because it offers us market-based solutions to social and environmental challenges we intend to address.
Our Strategy
Technology, combined with a deep understanding of low-to-moderate income community needs, is at the core of our investment strategy.
Sensi Impact Fund – identifies and supports best-in-class entrepreneurs who are scaling systematic change by:
- Making better quality products and services more affordable
- Developing business solutions with environmental impacts
- Developing businesses that improve quality of life of all Sierra Leoneans through employment generation
- Creating information chains to facilitate market transparencies and opening up supply
- Developing tools that grow small businesses.
Why impact investing
Impact investing is an excellent tool for us to solve very complex problems in our societies. Because it offers us market-based solutions to social and environmental challenges we intend to address.
Our Strategy
Technology, combined with a deep understanding of low-to-moderate income community needs, is at the core of our investment strategy.
Sensi Impact Fund – identifies and supports best-in-class entrepreneurs who are scaling systematic change by:
- Making better quality products and services more affordable
- Developing business solutions with environmental impacts
- Developing businesses that improve quality of life of all Sierra Leoneans through employment generation
- Creating information chains to facilitate market transparencies and opening up supply
- Developing tools that grow small businesses.
We support entrepreneurs from various socioeconomic backgrounds, who possess a shared passion for business, fueled by a higher purpose and concern for the well-being of humanity. The technology-enabled businesses in our portfolio empower undeserved markets in the sectors of education, health and wellness, and emerging marketplaces.We have built a national ecosystem of persons and organizations aimed to improve employment opportunities and close the unemployment gap – one investment at a time.
We support entrepreneurs from various socioeconomic backgrounds, who possess a shared passion for business, fueled by a higher purpose and concern for the well-being of humanity. The technology-enabled businesses in our portfolio empower undeserved markets in the sectors of education, health and wellness, and emerging marketplaces.We have built a national ecosystem of persons and organizations aimed to improve employment opportunities and close the unemployment gap – one investment at a time.
Our Impact
Impact fund portfolio
Our Impact
Impact fund portfolio
Kaira natural hair is a beauty product business that produces a natural hair cream called Kaira. This product caters for all sex and ages ranging from babies, adolescent and old. With a particular reference to Negros that fall within the 4c type of hair category.
NATURAL | 2015
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Kaira natural hair is a beauty product business that produces a natural hair cream called Kaira. This product caters for all sex and ages ranging from babies, adolescent and old. With a particular reference to Negros that fall within the 4c type of hair category.
NATURAL | 2015
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Abies’s Fashion is a Fashion and Design business that is specialized in sewing and designing of all types of elegant shirts, trousers and more for both ladies and gents.
FASHION | 2015
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Abies’s Fashion is a Fashion and Design business that is specialized in sewing and designing of all types of elegant shirts, trousers and more for both ladies and gents.
FASHION | 2015
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Farm investment is a sole proprietorship business and its main object is to produce groundnut paste
for selected portions of the middle class both in Freetown and selected provincial capitals.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Farm investment is a sole proprietorship business and its main object is to produce groundnut paste
for selected portions of the middle class both in Freetown and selected provincial capitals.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Farm to table is a registered business in Sierra Leone which aims to promote the agriculture sector by
marketing, packaging and distributing Sierra Leone produce.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Farm to table is a registered business in Sierra Leone which aims to promote the agriculture sector by
marketing, packaging and distributing Sierra Leone produce.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Agro fish farm is focused on Tilapia fish farming production and distribution that provides for a large
market range.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Agro fish farm is focused on Tilapia fish farming production and distribution that provides for a large
market range.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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SL Advert is a digital marketing company but also offers other services like general advertisements, website designing and hosting, general printing, Ecommerce, ICT consultancy, multimedia processing, retailing of ICT equipment and gadgets, amongst others.
TECH | 2015
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SL Advert is a digital marketing company but also offers other services like general advertisements, website designing and hosting, general printing, Ecommerce, ICT consultancy, multimedia processing, retailing of ICT equipment and gadgets, amongst others.
TECH | 2015
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Nianda Agriculture is an indigenous company in Sierra Leone, the company provide its customers
with high quality certified seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and farm tools at affordable prices.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Nianda Agriculture is an indigenous company in Sierra Leone, the company provide its customers
with high quality certified seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and farm tools at affordable prices.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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TruHitz Entertainment is one of the most prolific, creative and hardworking company in the industry.
It is a multimedia, promotional and an entertainment company specialized in music advertisement,
commercials, graphic designs and video production.
ENT | 2015
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TruHitz Entertainment is one of the most prolific, creative and hardworking company in the industry.
It is a multimedia, promotional and an entertainment company specialized in music advertisement,
commercials, graphic designs and video production.
ENT | 2015
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Ori is a social business enterprise operating in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded in October 2018, Ori (from Sierra Leone) is a shea butter based body & hair line infused with essential oils & carrier oils to promote healthy hair & skin glow.
FASHION | 2015
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Ori is a social business enterprise operating in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded in October 2018, Ori (from Sierra Leone) is a shea butter based body & hair line infused with essential oils & carrier oils to promote healthy hair & skin glow.
FASHION | 2015
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Abies’s Fashion is a Fashion and Design business that is specialized in sewing and designing of all types of elegant shirts, trousers and more for both ladies and gents.
FASHION | 2015
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Abies’s Fashion is a Fashion and Design business that is specialized in sewing and designing of all types of elegant shirts, trousers and more for both ladies and gents.
FASHION | 2015
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Project 1808 aims at developing a Tech innovation Hub in kabala, Sierra Leone, to enhance ICT skills knowledge, youth empowerment and socioeconomic advancement to improve the quality of life of people living in that part of the country.
ICT | 2015
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Project 1808 aims at developing a Tech innovation Hub in kabala, Sierra Leone, to enhance ICT skills knowledge, youth empowerment and socioeconomic advancement to improve the quality of life of people living in that part of the country.
ICT | 2015
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Community Innovation Tech Hub (CTI Hub) is a project that seeks to provide access to computer, internet, and digital library to youth as well as propel digital entrepreneurship in the Eastern part of the Western Urban District of Sierra Leone.
ICT | 2015
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Community Innovation Tech Hub (CTI Hub) is a project that seeks to provide access to computer, internet, and digital library to youth as well as propel digital entrepreneurship in the Eastern part of the Western Urban District of Sierra Leone.
ICT | 2015
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Wangu Holdings is an agricultural company that primarily produce passion fruits products (inclusive of; natural juice, fresh fruits and their by-products) in West Africa and a major exporter of locally cultivated vegetable leaves to the US and UK market.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Wangu Holdings is an agricultural company that primarily produce passion fruits products (inclusive of; natural juice, fresh fruits and their by-products) in West Africa and a major exporter of locally cultivated vegetable leaves to the US and UK market.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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GILL & CO is a digital multimedia production agency that provides high quality and cost effective audio visual solutions in Sierra Leone and beyond.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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GILL & CO is a digital multimedia production agency that provides high quality and cost effective audio visual solutions in Sierra Leone and beyond.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Cartridge Tech Sierra Leone is a business that focuses on an environmentally-friendly endeavor that recycles and remanufactures laser toner cartridge supplies for printers and photocopy machines.
TECH | 2015
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Cartridge Tech Sierra Leone is a business that focuses on an environmentally-friendly endeavor that recycles and remanufactures laser toner cartridge supplies for printers and photocopy machines.
TECH | 2015
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John Obey Community Organisation is a non-profit making organisation that aims at empowering youth with creating an alternative source of livelihood through community mobilization, sensitization and training.
TECH | 2015
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John Obey Community Organisation is a non-profit making organisation that aims at empowering youth with creating an alternative source of livelihood through community mobilization, sensitization and training.
TECH | 2015
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We Own TV We Own TV is multimedia organization in Freetown, that provides training for young people interested in the multimedia discipline.
ENT | 2015
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We Own TV We Own TV is multimedia organization in Freetown, that provides training for young people interested in the multimedia discipline.
ENT | 2015
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The Sierra Leone Commercial Bike Riders Union (SALCOMBRU) is an organisation that is set up with the aim of bringing safe, fast and reliable transportation to the people of Sierra Leone through the use of motor bikes and ensuring the protection of its members.
TRANSPORT | 2015
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The Sierra Leone Commercial Bike Riders Union (SALCOMBRU) is an organisation that is set up with the aim of bringing safe, fast and reliable transportation to the people of Sierra Leone through the use of motor bikes and ensuring the protection of its members.
TRANSPORT | 2015
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Human Capital Institute-Sierra Leone (HCI-SL) is a social business, non-voluntary organization committed to providing a platform for the inspiration and empowerment of organizational human resources management and young professionals/practitioners in corporate and professional businesses in Sierra Leone and beyond.
HUMAN CAPITAL | 2015
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Human Capital Institute-Sierra Leone (HCI-SL) is a social business, non-voluntary organization committed to providing a platform for the inspiration and empowerment of organizational human resources management and young professionals/practitioners in corporate and professional businesses in Sierra Leone and beyond.
HUMAN CAPITAL | 2015
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Crowd Fund Africa is a social network of collective financing (monetary contributions) and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, micro tasks and other resources).
FINANCE | 2015
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Crowd Fund Africa is a social network of collective financing (monetary contributions) and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, micro tasks and other resources).
FINANCE | 2015
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Marah Farms is an organic and sustainable farm in Sierra Leone. Covering 150 acres of Protected Forest Land in Kabala northern Sierra Leone, the Marah’s are a family of farmers and our ancestors have been farming for generations in the region.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Marah Farms is an organic and sustainable farm in Sierra Leone. Covering 150 acres of Protected Forest Land in Kabala northern Sierra Leone, the Marah’s are a family of farmers and our ancestors have been farming for generations in the region.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Welbodi gari is a business in Sierra Leone that produces and sells “Welbodi Gari” made from locally processed cassava (gari) with added ingredients which increase flavor and nutritional value.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Welbodi gari is a business in Sierra Leone that produces and sells “Welbodi Gari” made from locally processed cassava (gari) with added ingredients which increase flavor and nutritional value.
AGRI BUSINESS | 2015
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Our Impact
Our own version of change
Below are some of our achievement over the last five (5) years
Facility for Innovation Sierra Leone
Employment Promotion Program (EPP) Facility for Innovation(F4I)
GIZ | 2018
Facility for Innovation Sierra Leone
Employment Promotion Program (EPP) Facility for Innovation(F4I)
GIZ | 2018
From Sierra Leone to Liberia & Nigeria
Health Hackathon on Risk Communication For West Africa is to explore challenges and solutions for improving risk communication across a range of different groups.
GFA Consulting group, GIZ | 2018
From Sierra Leone to Liberia & Nigeria
Health Hackathon on Risk Communication For West Africa is to explore challenges and solutions for improving risk communication across a range of different groups.
GFA Consulting group, GIZ | 2018
Citizen engagement and transparent during election
Sierra Leone Decides project addressed citizen engagement and transparent communications for a democratic and fair election process leading up to Sierra Leone National election in March 2018.
IGR & OWSIWA | 2017
Citizen engagement and transparent during election
Sierra Leone Decides project addressed citizen engagement and transparent communications for a democratic and fair election process leading up to Sierra Leone National election in March 2018.
IGR & OWSIWA | 2017
Digital Literacy Program
Queen Young Leader ICT Training Program
Comic Relief & YMCA | 2017
Digital Literacy Program
Queen Young Leader ICT Training Program
Comic Relief & YMCA | 2017
The Sensi’s Programme
Firestarter programme is a flagship Sensi grant-making project, designed to contribute to employment opportunities for young people while building critical modern skills and capabilities building institutions that can support employment in the long-term.
Comic Relief UK & Indigo Trust | 2016
The Sensi’s Programme
Firestarter programme is a flagship Sensi grant-making project, designed to contribute to employment opportunities for young people while building critical modern skills and capabilities building institutions that can support employment in the long-term.
Comic Relief UK & Indigo Trust | 2016
Social media training
Social Media Workshop for promoting safe online environment from fake news
GIZ, EPP | 2017
Social media training
Social Media Workshop for promoting safe online environment from fake news
GIZ, EPP | 2017
Mobile App development
population Council Mobile App development(Commercial)
The Population Council | 2016
Mobile App development
population Council Mobile App development(Commercial)
The Population Council | 2016
Our Impact
Our own version of change
Below are some of our achievement over the last five (5) years
Facility for Innovation Sierra Leone
Employment Promotion Program (EPP) Facility for Innovation(F4I)
GIZ | 2018
Facility for Innovation Sierra Leone
Employment Promotion Program (EPP) Facility for Innovation(F4I)
GIZ | 2018
From Sierra Leone to Liberia & Nigeria
Health Hackathon on Risk Communication For West Africa is to explore challenges and solutions for improving risk communication across a range of different groups.
GFA Consulting group, GIZ | 2018
From Sierra Leone to Liberia & Nigeria
Health Hackathon on Risk Communication For West Africa is to explore challenges and solutions for improving risk communication across a range of different groups.
GFA Consulting group, GIZ | 2018
Citizen engagement and transparent during election
Sierra Leone Decides project addressed citizen engagement and transparent communications for a democratic and fair election process leading up to Sierra Leone National election in March 2018.
IGR & OWSIWA | 2017
Citizen engagement and transparent during election
Sierra Leone Decides project addressed citizen engagement and transparent communications for a democratic and fair election process leading up to Sierra Leone National election in March 2018.
IGR & OWSIWA | 2017
Digital Literacy Program
Queen Young Leader ICT Training Program
Comic Relief & YMCA | 2017
Digital Literacy Program
Queen Young Leader ICT Training Program
Comic Relief & YMCA | 2017
The Sensi’s Programme
Firestarter programme is a flagship Sensi grant-making project, designed to contribute to employment opportunities for young people while building critical modern skills and capabilities building institutions that can support employment in the long-term.
Comic Relief UK & Indigo Trust | 2016
The Sensi’s Programme
Firestarter programme is a flagship Sensi grant-making project, designed to contribute to employment opportunities for young people while building critical modern skills and capabilities building institutions that can support employment in the long-term.
Comic Relief UK & Indigo Trust | 2016
Social media training
Social Media Workshop for promoting safe online environment from fake news
GIZ, EPP | 2017
Social media training
Social Media Workshop for promoting safe online environment from fake news
GIZ, EPP | 2017
Mobile App development
population Council Mobile App development(Commercial)
The Population Council | 2016
Mobile App development
population Council Mobile App development(Commercial)
The Population Council | 2016
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