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Why Spark+

Why Spark+

A specialist investment platform combining sector expertise, flexible capital and active portfolio support.

The financing gap Spark+ was created to address

Modern cooking businesses often require forms of finance that do not fit conventional bank or generalist investor mandates. Their needs may include working capital, receivables and inventory finance, carbon-linked pre-finance and longer-term growth capital.

These businesses may combine local-currency revenues, hard-currency funding, uneven cash flows and sector-specific operating risks. Spark+ was designed to assess those risks and structure financing around each business model and stage of development.

What Spark+ brings

Spark+ combines specialist underwriting with flexible and catalytic capital across the modern-cooking value chain.

Sector expertise

Underwriting informed by modern cooking technologies, fuel infrastructure, distribution, consumer finance and carbon markets.

Flexible capital

Senior and structured debt, mezzanine, quasi-equity and project finance tailored to operating cash flows, asset needs and growth plans.

Carbon-market capability

Carbon-linked revenues, methodologies and timing risks considered in transaction structuring and portfolio management.

Portfolio development

Impact management and access to separately managed Technical Assistance designed around eligible portfolio-company needs.

Track record

24

Cumulative investments

22 active · 2 realized

21

Countries of operation

Portfolio-company footprint

USD 358.4m

Additional financing raised by portfolio companies

Reported through 31 March 2026

Figures are reported by portfolio companies and may reflect their wider operations rather than only activities financed by Spark+. Definitions and reporting approaches vary across business models.

Institutional platform

Spark+ Africa Fund is managed by Enabling Qapital AG and complemented by a separately managed Technical Assistance Facility operated by Stichting Modern Cooking.

Learn about the institutional structure