Bespoke Capital and Embedded Capability for Emerging-Market SMEs
Great businesses are being constrained by the wrong capital. We engineer the right one.
One Opportunity. Three Markets.
~860 million people across our three initial markets. We focus on essential sectors where entrepreneurial demand is strong and conventional capital remains limited. CatalytiQ's response: Bespoke Capital + Growth Studio + Catalytic Risk Sharing.
Market 1: Nigeria Fashion & Creative Economy
A 230M+ market with global cultural influence but limited affordable SME finance. We back brands, producers, platforms, and creative supply chains ready to scale.
Market 2: Indonesia Food
A 285M-person consumer market powered by 65M MSMEs across fragmented food systems.
We finance scalable solutions in food processing, agriculture, nutrition, and distribution.
Market 3: United States Health
A sophisticated capital market where major disparities in healthcare access persist.
We back community-based, women-led, and minority-led businesses advancing health equity with potential opportunity reaching US$ 5.3 T.
Our Model
Bespoke Capital
Flexible financing structured around how each business earns, invests, and grows.
Growth Studio
Targeted support to strengthen operations, financial systems, governance, and market access.
Catalytic Partnership
Risk-sharing structures that help mobilize capital into underserved markets and enterprises.
Businesses that graduate to commercial capital. Not businesses that remain dependent on us.
Our North Star
Capital deployment matters. But what matters more is what happens after: enterprises that become independently investable, that attract follow-on commercial finance, that scale without CatalytiQ.
That's how you measure systemic change.
The Founding Female Partners
Chinenye Uwanaka
Founding Partner
Lawyer, founder, and national policy leader. Founding Partner of CatalytiQ Holding. Ford Foundation Global Fellow and Board Member of The Firma Advisory. Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund: a $6M fund seeded by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Luminate.
Founding Partner
Shuhaela Fabya Haqim
Emerging markets and investment mobilization leader with 15+ years across APACand the Former Partner at Deloitte Consulting SEA and Indonesia Country Director at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Harvard Kennedy School graduate and Bloomberg Harvard City Hall Fellow.
Board Members
Dan Berlin
President and Co-Founder of Team See Possibilities
Alicia Castillo Holley
Founder and CEO of the Wealthing VC Club. Investor of Aruwa Capital
Peter Lupoff
Founder and Principal of Lupoff/ Stevens Family Office
How We Work
Capital Solves One Constraint. Capability Solves the Other.
Providing capital is only the beginning. We pair flexible financing with focused operating support so businesses can deploy capital effectively, strengthen performance, and prepare for their next stage of growth.
Bespoke Capital
We select the structure that best fits the company's cash flows, growth priorities, and repayment capacity.
Working Capital
Short-duration financing for inventory, receivables, and seasonal production.
Growth Debt
Term financing for equipment, facilities, and productive assets.
Growth Equity
Selective minority investments in businesses with significant scale potential.
Structured Equity
Flexible equity with defined pathways to redemption, refinancing, or liquidity.
Growth Studio
Our Growth Studio helps portfolio companies build the systems and capabilities investors expect.
Financial Readiness
Reporting, controls, and capital planning
Operations
Production, processes, and management systems
Governance
Legal structure, compliance, and decision-making
Market Access
Distribution, partnerships, and digital channels
Shared Capabilities
Specialist expertise, services, and infrastructure
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Catalytic Capital Partners
Explore opportunities to share risk, build enterprise capacity, and mobilize commercial investment.
Institutional Investors
Learn more about our investment thesis, portfolio strategy, and fund development.
Growth Studio Partners
Bring expertise, infrastructure, or market access that can help portfolio companies scale.
Contact
General: hello@catalytiqcapital.com
Catalytic Capital: sfh@catalytiqcapital.com
Growth Studio: chinenye@catalytiqcapital.com
Presence: Nigeria | Indonesia | United States
