Mashreq Bank, established in 1967, one of the leading financial institution in the UAE and a significant player in the GCC with experience operating in both the gulf and international markets. Mashreq has over 16 overseas offices in 13 countries, with corporate banking businesses in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and India, as well as corporate and retail banking in Egypt and foreign exchange businesses in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.The bank offers services that range from personal banking, investment banking, asset management and insurance services. Additionally, Mashreq provides conventional and Islamic personal and investment banking and asset management services.Further, Mashreq has extensive experience operating in trade finance alongside its robust trade portfolio in emerging markets. More specifically, the bank’s existing trade portfolio in Africa covers larger countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana and the bank has been expanding its footprint into smaller countries such as Tanzania, Togo, Cote D’Ivoe, Senegal and Cameroon.

Website:

https://www.mashreq.com/en/uae/neo/

MaxAB is re-engineering the retail market using proprietary technologies, innovative supply chains, and embedded finance solutions designed to empower both retailers and suppliers across Egypt, Morocco and beyond.

Website:

https://www.maxab.io/

MC IV Afrishell Ltd is a special-purpose vehicle through which BII co-invests alongside Mediterrania Capital Partners, FMO, and BIO into Coris Holding, a leading West and Central African banking group. Coris operates across ten countries in West and Central Africa: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Niger, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Chad. Coris offers a broad range of financial products, including retail banking and consumer credit for individuals; corporate banking for SMEs and larger corporates; mesofinance; and Islamic banking services that comply with Sharia principles, such as interest-free accounts, for over 800,000 customers.

Website:

https://coris-holding.com/

MedAccess is an innovative social finance company committed to expanding and accelerating access to life-saving medicines, vaccines and diagnostics in Africa and South Asia.

The company launched in 2017, with a huge amount of support and input from DFID (which had the initial idea to create the company), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

Website:

https://medaccess.org/

Medical Credit Fund II was launched in 2009 by PharmAccess (“PA”), a Dutch NGO, with the mission to provide credit to the private healthcare
sector in Africa to increase and improve their quality, scale, efficiency, and
ability to serve a wide range of patients.

Website:

https://www.medicalcreditfund.org/

Mega Motor Company (Private) Limited is a key player in Pakistan’s electric vehicle (EV) market, focused on importing and assembling BYD New Energy Vehicles (NEVs). They are establishing a major assembly plant near Karachi (25,000 unit capacity).

Website:

https://byd-mega.com/

Owendo Bulk Port, commissioned in early 2017, is focused on providing an export route for locally mined manganese ore and an import and trading route for aggregates and cement constituents.

Website:

https://www.arisepl.com/location/gabon/

Max is democratising access to mobility in Africa through a platform offering of reliable and affordable vehicles and essential services including energy, maintenance and insurance. Max partners with OEMs, fleet financiers and service providers to offer riders a frictionless experience across the mobility and energy value chain via a pay-as-you-go (“PAYG”) model in which subscribers pay a flat daily fee for the vehicle + service bundle.

Website:

https://www.maxdrive.ai/

In partnership with Gul Ahmed Metro Group we have formed the Metro-BII Renewables joint venture to develop and operate up to 500MW of renewable energy assets in Pakistan. Through the joint venture, British International Investment will acquire a significant minority stake in Metro Wind Power Limited, an under-construction 60MW windfarm project, developed by Gul Ahmed Metro Group.

Website:

https://metro-power.com/wind-power/

MHP is an international food and and agri-tech company. A major player in Ukraine’s agricultural sector and one of the country’s largest producers of grain, compound animal feed, oil, and milk.

Website:

https://mhp.com.ua/en/pro-kompaniu

BII first invested in Microvest pre-2012. In 2018 we converted our equity into debt which was repaid in 2021.

Mintoak provides a digital payments platform for MSME retail merchants. It does this by working with banking partners to deploy and scale value-added services (payments, lending, engagement) to their MSME customers.

Website:

https://www.mintoak.com/

The Gulpur Hydropower plant is one of several World Bank-funded projects located in Pakistan and is part of the Pakistan Government’s least-cost energy generation plan.

The plant is being developed by Mira Power, a subsidiary of Korean company KOSEP, and lies on the Poonch River about 170km from Islamabad.

Website:

http://www.mira-power.com/

Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.

Website:

http://www.miroforestry.com/

Founded in 2017, Mobile Power operates a battery-as-a-service business powered by small scale distributed solar energy in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. MOPO offers two patented batteries as alternatives to solar home systems, generators, mini-grids and unreliable grids. Batteries are rented on a pay-per-use basis through a network of agents. There is no deposit or minimum energy usage, enhancing access and affordability. The batteries support various applications, including charging mobile phones, lighting, and productive use equipment like fridges and e-bikes, meeting household and/or micro business energy needs for up to 24 hours.

Website:

https://mopo.co/

MoneyFellows is a group lending and savings platform in Egypt, which has has digitised the concept of ‘money circles’. Its mobile-based platform has made it more scalable, safe, and efficient.

Website:

https://moneyfellows.com/#

Moniepoint is a financial technology company. It provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses in Nigeria. Fund invested $82m.

Website:

https://moniepoint.com/

Moove is a mobility fintech democratising access to vehicle ownership in Africa.

Website:

https://www.moove.io/

mPharma is a tech-enabled healthcare company developing a more-efficient supply chain for pharmaceutical products across Africa.

Website:

https://mpharma.com/