We started CapitalSavvy to provide investment and finance advisory services to Public sector, Development Partners, foreign and local investors, at a time when the market was short of investment professionals. The founders then decided to embark on a journey to enhance their education and learning with specific emphasis on finance and investments so as to offer world class advisory solutions. This decision would later shape our culture as a firm, where incessant learning is part of our core values. We have since added investment management to our suite of solutions with our flagship fund, the SME Growth Fund – a credit fund focused on offering innovative debt financing solutions to SMEs. CapitalSavvy is headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.
We target to become the leading investment management and advisory partner in East Africa.
We are an indigenous investment management and advisory firm focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for our clients.
With our deep understanding of Africa and the challenges we face as a continent, we are committed to being an enabler along the path of Africa being the next frontier of growth.
In 2020, we launched our investment management business with our flagship fund, the SME Growth Fund – a fund focused on offering innovative debt financing solutions to SMEs with short term trade finance needs. We continue to offer investment advisory services to foreign and local investors, Small and Medium Enterprises, Development Partners and Public sector.
Together with our investors, we are committed to accelerating growth of our economy through facilitating financing solutions to Small and Medium Enterprises.
Our first fund, The SME Growth Fund, is a credit fund aimed at providing innovative short-term debt financing solutions to SMEs such as; receivables financing, import tax financing, supplier top-ups and stock financing, payment of freight and taxes, contract/LPO financing, commodity financing and bid bond guarantee financing to mention but a few.
Our anchor investors are institutional investors, including foundations, pension funds, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Invest Nowi. Investment due-diligence: local and regional market insights, research, financial modelling and investee commercial due diligence.
ii. Financial advisory services in structuring, negotiating and executing local and regional debt and equity investments
iii. Capital raising
i. Development of public sector project concepts.
ii. Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of focus public sector projects.
iii. Impact assessment studies of focus public sector projects.
Capitalsavvy has partnered with the BSV Blockchain Association to launch the Blockchain Innovation Program in East Africa.
The Blockchain Innovation Program is aimed at equipping young entrepreneurs with relevant web 3 developer skills. It is 10-week program, with a robust curriculum aimed at providing the relevant foundation required for developers to build scalable projects and enterprises on the BSV Blockchain, a proof of work Blockchain. The first cohort will have a total of 50 successful entrepreneurs, that will be carefully selected based on several surrogates including a demonstration of a strong understanding of web 2 developer skills, among others. We plan to have a minimum of three cohorts a year.
Incorporated in the program, is a hackathon at the end of the program, aimed at providing an opportunity for the best evaluated entrepreneur to represent the rest of the cohort at the Block Dojo, in London. This will provide an avenue for further learning, and linkages to potential seed/ venture capital partners for the entrepreneur. The rest of the entrepreneurs in the program will be exposed to several projects within the BSV Blockchain ecosystem where they will have an opportunity to be gainfully employed, thereby applying the acquired skills.
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Damalie is a Director of CapitalSavvy.
She is a seasoned banker and management expert. Her experience spans 20 years of Management in Banking and Financial services in emerging markets, with a proven track record on SME business, Women in Business Programs, Business Mentorship and Human Capital Management. She has worked with the major commercial banks in the market in various roles, an invaluable experience she brings to the firm.
Damalie holds a BA (Econ) from Makerere University Kampala (MUK), MBA in Oil and Gas (Herriot Watt University), CEO Apprenticeship from Strathmore Business school and PPP certification from MUK. She participates and practices Social Impact Advisory. As a leader, she believes success can only be achieved as a team.
Edwin is a Non-Executive Director of CapitalSavvy.
He is a financial analyst with over 8 years of work experience in the public sector, four of which were at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and over four of which have been at the Central Bank. He has, over the years, gained experience and extensive training in the areas of business analysis, research, financial modeling, econometrics modeling, investment and risk management, financial planning and valuation.
Edwin holds a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics (First Class Hons.) from the University of Surrey and has an MSc in Risk and Stochastics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Edwin is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Reginald is a Founder & CEO of CapitalSavvy.
His experience is in banking and finance at leading financial institutions.
Prior to founding CapitalSavvy, he was the Manager Capital, Stanbic Bank. And before that, he was the Regional Head Business Clients Leads Management, for the Standard Chartered Bank Africa Regional Office, where he was in charge of big data analytics solutions for the Business Banking Client Segment across the 8 markets of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Nigeria.
He also worked in different functions within StanChart Uganda such as Finance where he took on different transformational projects, Retail Segments where he was in charge of Segment Proposition for the premium segment – where Wealth Management was a key pillar.
He is also a co-founder of Blockchain AG, a leading Blockchain and emerging technologies firm in Uganda.
Reginald holds a BSc in Statistics (Hons), and is currently pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Monetix is a Switzerland based technology company dedicated to deploying innovative technologies to traditional financial services.
CapitalSavvy and Monetix partnered up in Uganda in order to build an efficient bridge from the Western hemisphere into Uganda, allowing investors globally to participate in the economical uprise of the country and its population through providing Peer-to-Peer loans to small- and medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs.
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