We provide lender-ready capital raise packaging and debt or equity placement support for business owners and buyers looking to secure serious term sheets and close funding on a defined timeline.
For business owners and acquirers pursuing private debt or equity, submit your deal for review. We revert within one working day with next steps and either a quote for our services.
For pre-submission discussions, we offer paid consultations. To initiate underwriting and lender outreach, submit the deal.
Project Finance And Cross Border Capital
Every day we are contacted by founders, sponsors, and operators with projects across Africa, including energy, infrastructure, processing, logistics, and export-linked industrial assets. The countries change, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Angola, Senegal, and the DRC show up often, but the underwriting questions stay the same.
Capital markets do not fund projects because a concept looks exciting. They fund structured offerings with verifiable inputs, enforceable contracts, and credible execution. A standalone PDF rarely clears that bar unless you already know the decision maker personally. If you already have that relationship and trust, you typically do not need investment bankers, placement agents, or intermediaries to introduce you.
This post explains how funding is raised abroad, what channels work, and why credible processes usually require a real budget to execute.
Offshore investors and lenders underwrite governance, enforceability, and downside control before they underwrite upside. If your materials are light on legal structure, permits, contracts, and risk allocation, your deck becomes a marketing document rather than an investable package. Serious capital allocators also need a controlled process: a data room, Q and A routing, diligence gates, and clear decision points.
Reality check: most claims of investor interest collapse when asked for a written indication, a diligence plan, and proof of decision authority. Funding is not a vibe. It is a documented path to a binding term sheet.
Before outreach, the project needs a bankable container. Investors can tolerate emerging market risk, but they will not tolerate unclear ownership, uncontrolled cash flows, or missing approvals.
Investors for Africa is not one market. The right channel depends on sector, ticket size, contractability, and where risk sits. Below are practical pathways that show up in real transactions.
| Funding Channel | Best Fit | What You Must Have |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic investors and offtakers | Processing assets, export flows, captive supply | Offtake, pricing formula, quality specs, enforceable delivery terms |
| Development finance and blended capital | Energy access, infrastructure, climate-aligned assets | Impact thesis, governance, safeguards, measurable outcomes |
| Private credit and infrastructure debt | Contracted cash flows, refinancing, brownfield assets | Debt service logic, security package, reporting, covenants |
| Export-linked credit structures | Equipment imports, supply chain, export receivables | Supplier contracts, buyer credits, documentary controls, collateral |
| Family offices and sponsor equity | Mid-market equity checks, platform buildouts | Operator credibility, governance, alignment, realistic returns |
| Syndicated credit facilities | Larger tickets, repeatable flows, scalable platforms | Institutional reporting, agent bank comfort, enforceable controls |
Many sponsors confuse finding names with getting decisions. The objective is to reach the right decision makers with a matched mandate, and provide enough structured evidence to move to diligence.
Build a target list based on sector, ticket size, region, and structure. Then filter by evidence of prior deployments, not marketing claims. Offshore allocators want repeatability, so prior checks are a strong signal of appetite.
If you can secure an anchor, an offtaker, EPC, or a credible local partner, your capital raise becomes easier. Offshore investors care about who else is on the cap table and who controls execution.
Many African projects are capital seeking because they are not yet contractable. The fix is to build a bankable pathway: permits, land rights, revenue mechanics, and a security package that survives underwriting.
If the project has contracted cash flows or export receivables, structured debt can be the primary tool. Equity becomes the gap filler rather than the entire solution.
Sponsors often ask for investors with no upfront cost. That is not how credible execution works. A budget does not pay for magic introductions. It pays for the work that reduces risk and makes a decision possible.
Costs vary widely by sector, jurisdiction, and ticket size, but there are patterns.
The point is not the exact number. The point is that credible raises budget for legal, diligence, and distribution.
Financely operates as a transaction-led capital advisory desk. We help sponsors convert an African project into a structured, decision-ready offering, then run mandate-matched decisioning to capital providers. The outcome is term sheets or written declines with reasons, not endless conversations. Where execution requires licensing, we coordinate execution through appropriately licensed partners under their approvals.
If you want to understand our process first, review How It Works and What We Do. For project context, see Project Finance. When ready, submit through Submit Your Deal.
Submit your jurisdiction, project summary, permits status, contracts, capex budget, timeline, and your target capital structure. We will revert with feasibility, a checklist, and an execution path sized to your transaction.
They ask who controls the project, what rights are enforceable, what contracts drive cash flow, and what protections exist for FX, political risk, and counterparty default. They also ask how funds move, where accounts sit, and what reporting will exist after closing.
Not always, but local execution capability matters. In practice, investors want comfort on permits, land rights, operating continuity, and on-the-ground controls. A credible local partner can reduce perceived execution risk if structured properly.
Sometimes, but only when you already have deep trust and a direct relationship with a decision maker. Otherwise, you need a decision-ready package: legal structure, contracts, diligence plan, and a controlled process.
Start by making the project underwriteable. Build the structure, consolidate documentation, and define the capital ask with clear security and governance. Then target mandate-matched capital with evidence, not broad outreach.
The usual causes are unclear rights, weak contracting, missing permits, overstated economics, and lack of a credible diligence pathway. Investors do not reject Africa. They reject uncertainty that could have been reduced.
We structure the offering, build the decision-ready package, and run capital decisioning. Start via Submit Your Deal.
If you want foreign capital to take an African project seriously, treat it like a capital markets process. Build structure, reduce uncertainty with diligence, and run mandate-matched decisioning. The fastest path is rarely a louder pitch. It is a tighter file.
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All mandates start with an RFQ. We review submissions, issue a brief Go/No-Go memo, and where bankable, release a Term Sheet that leads to funding. We arrange capital across Senior Secured, Unitranche, Second Lien/Mezzanine, Preferred Equity, and Gap Solutions. We do not process deals by email or chat.
Letters of Credit, Standby LCs, Confirmations, Receivables Finance, and Inventory Lines with control.
Funding arranged for trade flows with instruments sized to your cycle and aligned to delivery and settlement.
Move forward to secure working capital and keep goods moving. Submit the RFQ to start underwriting for funding.
Limited or non-recourse structures for energy and infrastructure with lender-ready materials.
Funding solutions aligned to project cash flows with credible covenants and conditions to reach notice to proceed.
Advance the file to termable status. Submit the RFQ so we can underwrite and secure funding.
Debt and Preferred solutions anchored on cash flow, Quality of Earnings, and clear closing mechanics.
Funding across senior, unitranche, and preferred to match stable cash flows and acquisition timelines.
Get financed on workable terms for closing. Submit the RFQ to start underwriting.
Acquisition, development, bridge, and refinance with lender-ready packs and third-party reports managed.
Funding calibrated to DSCR, leverage, and tenancy with terms designed to close.
Move to a financeable package. Submit the RFQ to initiate underwriting for funding.
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