Risk capital and financial support

Swedfund offers risk capital, equity, loans and expertise for investments in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as the non-EU countries of Eastern Europe. It cooperates with strategic partners, primarily Swedish enterprises that are looking to start up or expand businesses in a new market.

Swedfund offers financing to companies that:

• want to invest in African, Asian and Latin American countries that are not classified as upper middle income*, as well as the non-EU countries of Eastern Europe,
• have the economic resources to invest minimum the same amount as Swedfund,
• have a management team that is capable of operating in the country under consideration.

Swedfund also offers financial support to Swedish small and medium-sized limited liability companies for transfer of know-how and investments in equipment, when establishing a business/partnership in emerging markets.

The Swedish company should have:

• between 5 and 249 employees,
• an annual turnover not exceeding 50 MEUR and/or
• a balance sheet total not exceeding 43 MEUR.

The financial support is given as a loan that can be converted into a grant when the project has been completed according to plan. The maximum financial assistance is limited to SEK 750,000 or 40 % of the total project budget. Transfer of know-how has to represent at least one third of the total project budget.

*Swedfund may invest in the countries that appear in the first three columns of DAC’s list of ODA Recipients.

Publications:

Swedfund publishes a number of publications, both in Swedish and in English. Among others "Världsekonomins nya tillväxtmarknader" by Peter Stein.