We are excited to support U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's (DFC) new Africa Investment Advisor Program, for which we will provide advisors across the continent to complement DFC's efforts to create and invest in opportunities for US and African companies. The advisors will be charged with sourcing investment opportunities across Africa, working alongside U.S. embassies and USAID missions, and supporting DFC staff in Washington by providing on-the-ground project due diligence and monitoring.…

CrossBoundary Advisory will support the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's new Africa Investment Advisor Program, for which we will provide advisors across the continent to complement DFC's efforts to create and invest in opportunities for US and African companies. The advisors will be charged with sourcing investment opportunities across Africa, working alongside U.S. embassies and USAID missions, and supporting DFC staff in Washington by providing on-the-ground project due diligence and monitoring.…

In our new paper with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, we suggest ways African governments, donors, development finance institutions, and impact investors can align their priorities to support investment that creates jobs and incomes at scale. Written by Jake Cusack, Jonathan Said, Pooja Yadav, Matt Tilleard, and Thomas Flahive, the report expands on our past investment facilitation work...

A mural of George Floyd in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. Haki means “Justice” in Swahili Source: Baz Ratner/Reuters…

Companies in frontier markets are responding to the mounting challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic with resilience and grit. Our Co-Managing Partner Jake Cusack and associates Marília dos Reis Martins and Edmund Le Brun wrote a short piece to highlight some inspiring examples from across Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.…

We congratulate Kibo Capital Partners on their majority investment into Transcom S.A, a Mozambican tertiary education provider, that offers engineering and business management courses. As advisors under the USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub, CrossBoundary supported investment due diligence - analyzing their business plan, the regulatory and competitive landscape in Mozambique, and potential growth strategies for the business. Transcom...

Field Intelligence is helping community pharmacies increase the availability of affordable and quality-assured medicines. Serving as transaction advisors in support of the US Government’s Prosper Africa initiative funded by USAID’s Southern and East Africa Regional Missions through USAID INVEST, we provided valuation benchmarking and detailed market analysis of the community pharmacy sector in Nigeria and Kenya to accelerate the investment...