Swedfund International
Loes van Rheen serves as the ESG & Impact Data Manager at Swedfund International since January 2023. Prior experience includes a role as a Sustainability/ESG analyst at the World Benchmarking Alliance, where Loes focused on benchmarking influential companies and assessing important social disclosures. Loes has also held project management positions at Sustainable-Matters Impact Project Management and NewForesight Consultancy, specializing in market transformation strategies for prominent FMCG companies. As the founder of Maganda, Loes initiated a socially responsible shoe brand aimed at improving market opportunities for artisans. Earlier work includes a marketing project manager role at UTZ Certified, where Loes significantly increased market share for Utz labeled products, and as a financial projects consultant at EY. Loes holds an MSc in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing Management and has completed leadership training for social enterprise professionals.
Swedfund International
Swedfund International AB is a principal investment firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The firm does not invest in the Swedish businesses of Swedish companies and in companies that manufacture or sell weapons, tobacco or alcohol. It prefers to invest in seed, start-ups, and mid and late venture in mature and middle marketcompanies. It seeks to provide risk capital in the form of share capital, share options, convertible loans, preference shares, royalty loans, subordinated loans, secured loans, loans, guarantees, and part-financing of leasing agreements. It prefers to invest in emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Sweden, as well as the non-European Union countries of Eastern Europe. The firm typically invests between SEK 5 million ($1.33 million) and SEK 100 million ($13.37 million). It seeks to exit its investments between five years and ten years. It does not invest together with private individuals, partnerships, sole trader, or co-operative or similar associations, and does not provide aid in the form of donations, and is also not involved in sponsoring. The firm takes a Board seat in its portfolio companies and seeks to participate in the investment committee for fund investments. The firm is a minority investor and its investments do not exceed one-third of the total investment. Swedfund International AB was founded in 1979 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Nairobi, Kenya.