We are a start-up focused on building big data and offering flexible funding for high growth small businesses spread across Africa, to help them make sharper business growth decisions and support them with patient capital to become big businesses of tommorrow.

Primary Role: Our primary role is to help small business owners become great managers for their small businesses by unlocking their business upside potential whilst proactively managing downside risks, through our Business Analytics, Financials Statements Tools, Business Advisors and Advisory Board on our Kupfuma - Business Management App. If you are a small business, you can click on Kupfuma App to download our app and get started.

Secondary Role: Our secondary role is to support great small business owners/managers with funding to help them consolidate their position within their Serviceable Obtainable Markets 'SOM' or to scale into Serviceable Attainable Market 'SAM' and ultimately Total Available Market 'TAM'. If you are a high growth small business operating within Africa, you can assess our funding options through Microfunding or Dealroom sections on our Kupfuma App and our funding options include:

1. Picture for Success '$0 - $1 000' these are donations 'nano funding and free training' to open air markets micro entrepreneurs i.e hawkers, to give them hope and an opportunity to dream big
2. Microfunding '$1 000 - $10 000' leveraging our internal funds to support tactical short term Board decisions
3. Diaspora Equity Funding '$10 000 - $100 000' to impliment strategic medium term growth plans 'within SOM and SAM' leveraging our African Diaspora investors, if you are an African in Diaspora willing to invest back home you can use the Investor Log In on the left side navigation tabs or click on African Diaspora Investor to get started
4. Growth Funding '$100 000 - $1 000 000' to impliment strategic long term growth plans 'within SAM and TAM' leveraging both global and local institutional investors within out network

SME Growth = Great Management + Flexible Funding

In order to increase our impact within the shortest possible time, we seek to create partnerships with various strategic partners such as development funds, banks, governments, corporates, university and other civil organisations within the society.

i.e As a church you might feel, you need to train your congregates who are SME owners on how to prepare financials for their businesses and you have organised say 100 SME owners, we will be glad to chip in a help with that.

There are many ways we can create some strategics partnerships with different players, simply send us your proposal on how you think we can work together and we will get back to you.

If you feel there are any positive synergies we can explore, please don’t hesitate to contact us on wealth@kupfuma.com

We extensively engage with our African Diaspora Investors community, through various road shows in major cities across the world from London, New York, Sydney, Dubai, Berlin all the way to Beijing. These investor roadshows help us physical meet the Diaspora community financing some of the small businesses in Africa to have a face-to-face dialogue as well as showcase some of the small investment opportunities suitable for individual African Diaspora investors with our Dealroom.

You can easily find when is the next African Diaspora investor event on your dashboard once you have logged in, simply register well in advance as we accommodate for small number of investors per event to make it easier to interface in a Boardroom setup, which will become the norm when you invest in a small business and hopefully attend some of the monthly Board Meetings.

If you are an African in Diaspora with a minimum of $2 500 in savings looking for high risks, high return small business investment opportunities back home you can use the Investor Log In on the left side navigation tabs or click on African Diaspora Investor to get started. Once you have signed up, you can book for a free welcome meeting on your Dashboard and we will explain to you in detail how you can invest back home through our platform.

It’s a mammoth task to triple Africa’s GDP to over $10trillion by 2035, there are a lot of key insights all the key stakeholders will need to understand how MSMEs will contribute to unlock Africa’s GDP to surpass the $10trillion mark. We believe our education sector is vibrate and will give us some of the insights through intense and practical research activities during their Honours or Post Graduate studies.

If you are a student at any African University, with a research topic focused on MSMEs within the continent we would love to contribute towards some of your cost to help you undertake a quality research which can be used by various key stakeholders interested in seeing Africa moving forward.

Simply email us the following

1. Your research topic
2. Cost structure for your research
3. Your academic transcript
4. Your full details i.e Full Name, Address and reference

to dreamteam@kupfuma.com , please note the selection process is highly competent hence you need to put all your effort into the application.

Our Dealroom form part of our core Investments Team which is the heart of our business focusing on patient capital leveraging our presence in major global financials hubs with the key following initiatives for the Dealroom.

1. Microfunding – evaluating microfunding applications and providing feedback through your allocated Business Advisor.
2. Growth/Investor Readiness – focused on fine tuning your small business to be ready for growth and/or external investors through initiatives such as business valuation to determine your pre-money valuation, advisory boards.
3. Equity Funding – Raising patient capital to unlock growth potential for your small business through Diaspora Equity Funding and Growth Funding.

Celebrating Entrepreneurship through Kupfuma Stories: Entrepreneurship is not a walk in the park, it’s more like riding a thrilling roller coaster full of twist and turns. Most entrepreneurs hardly find the time and opportunity to celebrate as there are usually more failures than successes, hence through Kupfuma stories we want to offer an opportunity to common small business owners’ success stories unlike the usual stories to hear every day, we want to celebrate the underdogs who are not in the limelight already but have made significant strides in solving problems within their local community through entrepreneurship.

If your story can inspire another small business owner or someone who has an idea but they are hesitant to implement it, we would love to hear from you. They say the graveyard is the richest place on earth, full of ideas that were never implemented, books that were never written, inventions that were never shared, songs that were never sang, cures that were never discovered all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream. We hope your small business story will change someone to build a better Africa, and along the way helpful you create everlasting partnerships.

We will share the stories on our social media handles, if you have the best story for the month reflected through likes, reposts and comments we will give you 5 Star Dinner Vouchers for two at the best local hotel in your country in Africa, to help you celebrate your journey so far and to give a toast to an even bigger and better future ahead as you turn your small business into a big business. Simply email us your story on advisory@kupfuma.com and we will share it to the world, time for us to change Africa for the good and uplift millions out of poverty through out collective efforts.

Advisors are a key backbone to our business model, we are currently setting up remote business advisors across Africa through our 1 Year - Graduate Trainee Programme, to provide much needed hands on business advisory to a number of small businesses aiming to become big businesses.

Your Key Roles

1. Assess and training SMEs how to use our Kupfuma Application
2. Interpret Financial Statements for SMEs in your portfolio
3. Business valuation for SMEs in your portfolio
4. Provide strategic advise to SMEs in your allocated portfolio
5. Due Diligence and help SMEs prepare their funding documents

Requirements

1. A Finance and Banking Degree or any other business-related programs
2. Ability to travel locally, regionally or internationally
3. Quite environment for online remote meetings
4. Laptop and high internet connectivity for remote working.

Benefits

1. World class training to become globally competitive
2. Opportunities to network with ambitious young professionals
3. Ability to work at your own pace and remotely
4. Base salary plus attractive performance bonuses