Centre for Inclusive Markets and Partnerships

Moving
toward your goals—
big or small.

Whether you are growing an enterprise or tackling a national challenge, CIMP connects research, industry and government to help you move forward. Let's achieve what's next, together, through the power of every connection.

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CIMP · INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

South Africa’s
Deal Team.

Big challenges need better connections. We turn them into deals.

Investors can struggle to find bankable ventures, research can stall before reaching the market, and businesses can lack the funding to grow. CIMP closes these gaps by mobilising private capital to:

Back entrepreneurship — connect founders with investors.
Commercialise research — move ideas from lab to market.
Grow enterprises — help start-ups and established businesses scale, adapt and compete.

Backed by our research, education and practical tools, we turn market insight into investable opportunity.

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A PLATFORM FOR PROGRESS

Big challenges need better connections.

The Centre for Inclusive Markets and Partnerships (CIMP) builds those connections. Weak links between enterprises, markets, institutions, and capital hold back growth and the people who depend on it. We close those gaps through research, education, and practical tools, creating the economic and social systems in which enterprises can start, grow, and endure.

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01Evidence-led
perspectives

02Partnerships
that deliver

03South African
priorities, connected

04Ideas made
actionable

Capital Expansion Program (CEP360) / PARTNER INSIGHTS

Insight, resources
and connections.

Capital Expansion Program (CEP360) connects private capital to the entrepreneurs, researchers, and businesses that can put it to work. Backed by the market expertise of the Centre for Inclusive Markets and Partnerships (CIMP), we open up opportunities in private equity and the wider private markets, with finance structured around the growth of your business rather than a one-size-fits-all product.

01 / RETHINK EQUITY

Equity shaped around your growth

Non-controlling stakes: we invest alongside you, and you keep control of your business.
Revenue-sharing: returns tied to your performance, so repayment moves with your revenue and our interests stay aligned with yours.

02 / RETHINK CREDIT

Finance that fits the need

Working-capital facilities: finance for day-to-day cash needs such as stock, payroll, and fulfilling orders.
Blended finance: private capital combined with development funding to reach ventures and sectors that commercial terms alone would not.
Project preparation facilities: support to get promising projects bankable and investment-ready.

03 / BEYOND CAPITAL

Support to strengthen the business

Business development support: hands-on, non-financial help to strengthen strategy, operations, and readiness to scale.

Whatever your stage, bring us your venture, your project, or your capital. Let’s make the connection.

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WHERE WE FOCUS

Insight for the issues
that shape our future.

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01 / THE ECONOMY

Economic Resilience and Competitiveness

Research on the forces shaping markets, risk and opportunity.

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02 / ENTERPRISE

Enterprise Growth and Inclusion

Opening access to finance, markets and practical support.

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03 / INDUSTRY

Industry and Value Chain Development

Strengthening sectors, supply chains and local capability.

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04 / COLLABORATION

Public-Private Dialogue and Collaboration

Connecting business, government and research around shared priorities.

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CAPITAL AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

WHAT WE OFFER

Capital and expert support, guided by evidence and built on partnership.

Our research and partnerships shape where capital and expertise can make the biggest difference. Through Equity, Project Development and Core Investment Funds, supported by six investment programme pathways, we give enterprises the capital and practical support to grow and evolve at every stage.

01Equity↗Investment that backs enterprises ready to grow and strengthens the businesses driving inclusive growth.02Project Development↗Expert support to prepare, structure and deliver projects that help enterprises grow and strengthen the industries and value chains they belong to.03Core Investment Funds↗Dedicated funds, guided by our research and partnerships, that direct capital to South African priorities.

OUR IMPACT

Better aligned.
More possible.

Lasting change happens when insight travels beyond the page. We measure progress in the strength of partnerships, the quality of decisions and the opportunities they unlock.

01Shared priorities
made clearer

02New connections
put to work

03Practical ideas
ready to scale

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IDEAS & PERSPECTIVES

Understand the moment.
Shape what comes next.

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MARKET BRIEF · 8 MIN READ

ECONOMIC RESILIENCE & COMPETITIVENESS

What shifts in the economy mean for business

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FIELD NOTES · 6 MIN READ

INDUSTRY & VALUE CHAINS

Building stronger regional value chains

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ENTERPRISE VIEW · 5 MIN READ

ENTERPRISE GROWTH & INCLUSION

How wider access to finance can unlock enterprise growth

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WORK WITH US

Progress is a team effort.

We welcome organisations and individuals who bring expertise, curiosity and commitment to South Africa’s development priorities.

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Moving
toward your goals—
big or small.

South Africa’s
Deal Team.

Investments
Rethink equity.
Rethink credit.

Big challenges need better connections.

Insight, resources
and connections.

Equity shaped around your growth

Finance that fits the need

Support to strengthen the business

Insight for the issues
that shape our future.

Economic Resilience and Competitiveness

Enterprise Growth and Inclusion

Industry and Value Chain Development

Public-Private Dialogue and Collaboration

Capital and expert support, guided by evidence and built on partnership.

Better aligned.
More possible.

Understand the moment.
Shape what comes next.

What shifts in the economy mean for business

Building stronger regional value chains

How wider access to finance can unlock enterprise growth

Progress is a team effort.

Pretoria office

Cape Town office

Movingtoward your goals—big or small.

Big challenges need better connections.

Insight, resourcesand connections.

Equity shaped around your growth

Finance that fits the need

Support to strengthen the business

Insight for the issuesthat shape our future.

Economic Resilience and Competitiveness

Enterprise Growth and Inclusion

Industry and Value Chain Development

Public-Private Dialogue and Collaboration

Capital and expert support, guided by evidence and built on partnership.

Better aligned.More possible.

Understand the moment.Shape what comes next.

What shifts in the economy mean for business

Building stronger regional value chains

How wider access to finance can unlock enterprise growth

Progress is a team effort.

Perspective for achanging South Africa.

Moving
toward your goals—
big or small.

Insight, resources
and connections.

Insight for the issues
that shape our future.

Better aligned.
More possible.

Understand the moment.
Shape what comes next.

Perspective for a
changing South Africa.