Equatorius Capital Group
Innovation. Opportunity. Impact.
OVERVIEW
Equatorius Capital Group’s impact innovation fund creates unique and skillfully vetted impact investment opportunities by capitalizing on the unprecedented prospects in the fastest growing regions of the world for dynamic startups and high-growth SMEs.
CHALLENGES
India and Africa present both an unique set of challenges and several problems common to both including but not limited to: access to startup or growth capital, underdeveloped infrastructure and a digital skills gap.
OPPORTUNITIES
The Indian market alone represents over 1.5 billion people. There are currently over 20,000 startups with approximately 10,500 tech startups projected by the end of 2020. There are estimated to be 42.5MM SMEs, which collectively produce over 6,000 different types of products and represent 45% of India’s GDP, with an annual growth rate of 11.5%.
With a population of approximately 1.3 billion people, which is predicted to double over the next 25 years, the various African markets collectively represent unprecedented market potential. Africa has had two successive record-breaking years for startup funding, with the rapid growth of technology ecosystems across Africa. SMEs account for nearly 90% of all businesses in Africa.
As more people around the world are becoming more prosperous, these markets are benefiting from increasing demand, new consumer classes and more disposable income than ever before. The confluence of these factors provides fertile ground for high-growth investment opportunities.
SECTOR FOCUS
FinTech, Additive Manufacturing, AgriTech, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, HealthTech, EdTech, eCommerce and Mobile Applications. The geographic areas of focus are Emerging markets; predominantly India and Sub-Saharan Africa.
FINTECH
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
AGRITECH
ENERGY
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
HEALTHTECH
FUND PROFILE
Size: $50MM and Investment Amounts: $100k — $5MM.
For further information please contact DANIEL RYAN | Managing Partner, Equatorius Capital Group.
The Impact Innovation Fund Team.
EQUATORIUS CAPITAL GROUP HAS CREATED AN IMPACT INNOVATION FUND DESIGNED TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES.
DANIEL RYAN | Managing Partner
Mr. Daniel Ryan brings more than 30+ years of International Private Equity Venture Investment, Organizational Development & Management Consulting experience to the group. Daniel Co-Founded and worked as Executive Director of DCS, a Management Consulting & Organizational Development/Investment firm based in Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa for 10+ years focused on innovative SME organizational capacity building-training, skills gap analysis, market research, financial analysis/management, strategic planning, and researching business and equity investment opportunities throughout Africa.
Mr. Ryan is currently Managing Director of an Investment Bank & Private Equity firm based in USA that has completed over 900 investment transactions valued at over $40 billion ($USD); and managed over $1.2 billion of capital for institutional investors (banks, insurance companies and pension funds) before moving into immigration-related private equity investments in 2009.
Daniel holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration-Finance, a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development/Corporate Education, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Business Administration-Strategic Management with a dissertation focused on Innovation and Economic Development for Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SME’s) in Africa. Daniel recently completed Executive Education at The University of Oxford, Said Business School; Oxford, England with focus on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Finance; Global Business & Post Covid-19 Strategic Planning from The Harvard School of Business, and is currently enrolled at The London School of Economics & Political Science in the condensed MBA Essentials program.
LAURENT ROTROFF | Managing Partner
Laurent is the CEO of Equatorius and an attorney licensed to practice in Massachusetts. She has a background in international law, having worked with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda formed under the United Nations, to which she provided an advisory memorandum on an issue of international law on genocide that was relied upon to convict multiple war criminals and set a precedent for international law on genocide. She has also been involved in dispute resolutions before the World Trade Organization.
Laurent has a background in finance, having worked in the Global Corporate Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was involved in leveraged capital markets syndication and specialized in international transactions, corporate aircraft deals, energy, healthcare and government transactions. Drawing from her international and business expertise, Laurent formed Equatorius to encourage global connections and facilitate innovation and development in emerging markets.
Equatorius provides collaborative corporate innovation programs that offer access not only to brilliant innovative solutions and superstar startups from around the world, but also access to hidden insights, market epiphanies, lucrative under-explored frontiers and new prospective horizons. Equatorius has produced numerous startup events including the Entrepreneur Summit in Mumbai for startups, investors, thought leaders and dignitaries.