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Unlocking Growth: How Innovative Finance Can Fuel Ukraine's Small Farms
Smallholder farmers in Ukraine held massive potential, but their growth was stifled by limited access to innovative financing. To address this, Chemonics Ukraine sought WhiteLabel's expertise. We delved into global best practices in Innovative Agriculture Financing, conducting extensive research, interviews, and case study analysis. Our findings were distilled into a comprehensive primer, providing critical insights for tailored funding strategies designed specifically for lesser developed economies, equipping Chemonics with a strategic resource to identify and implement practical funding solutions. The impact: A USAID Head of Economic Growth, with over two decades of experience, lauded the primer as one of the best they'd encountered and how “strategic research and knowledge sharing can unlock growth and transformation for communities in need.”
Empowering Global Enterprise: Structuring a Financial Facility for Women Entrepreneurs
The Goldman Sachs Foundation's 10,000 Women Initiative needed a financial structure that would allow it to eventually recoup its investment in women entrepreneurs. Traditional financial returns were not a priority. A WhiteLabel partner proposed a then-novel "catalytic capital facility" using a layered investment structure. This structure placed the Goldman Sachs Foundation in the "first-loss" position, meaning they'd absorb initial losses, effectively subsidizing other investors with lower risk tolerances. The model allowed the Foundation to provide crucial funding for women entrepreneurs with the potential to recoup its investment while creating a compelling return stream to “crowd-in” more commercial investors. The success of this facility has become a benchmark within the world of innovative finance.
From Family Offices to Subscription Models: Launching, Commercializing and Managing Venture Investment Funds
Over our 30-years in the financial markets, WhiteLabel has had the opportunity to launch, transform, manage, and commercialize venture capital operations at about a dozen family offices, hedge funds and corporations. Indeed, WhiteLabel’s initial co-founders met while running investment operations for RoseTech Ventures during the halcyon days of “Silicon Alley.” Over five years, they evaluated thousands of investment opportunities, made 15 investments, sat on the Boards of more than a dozen companies, and helped portfolio companies raise more than $50 million in follow-on investment. The portfolio had multiple successful exits including one 30X return. A WhiteLabel partner was also part of the successful launch of Alumni Ventures Group’s Columbia-focused fund, developing the investment strategy, raising capital, vetting hundreds of investments, and, investing in, to date, two unicorns. Other clients have included setting up venture arms for a MedTech firm, and an extremely large hedge fund focused on global investments.
Innovating Around Finance: Propelling Entrepreneurship in the Eastern Caribbean
After decades of economic underperformance and high unemployment, the World Bank wanted to launch a program aimed at improving access to finance for women and youth entrepreneurs in the Eastern Caribbean. Looking to understand the nexus between the area’s entrepreneurs, what was regulatorily possible, the amount of capital this small market could absorb, and what would engage, and excite potential partners in the initiative, it turned to a WhiteLabel partner. On the ground, WhiteLabel met with women and youth entrepreneurs, executives from banks, Central Bank governors and finance ministers, and a cadre of foundations and impact investors coming up with a list of pain points, which informed the structuring of an initiative to address, and alleviate, the issues. They then worked with the Bank on implementation: structuring the initiative, including a financial facility and educational program aimed at informing, and elevating the entrepreneurs; developing a primer on best practices related to the chosen financial structure; creating materials for outreach, and leading a roadshow around the project. The result: an initiative launched with participation from several leading foundations, including a $50 million financial facility and an operational support program for entrepreneurs.
From Funding Crisis to Future-Proof: Using Finance as a Strategic Lens
An inclusive and sustainable development-focused global NGO faced a funding crisis: Two of its key donors changed course, leaving the firm with a fiscal gap. WhiteLabel stepped in, embedding financial expertise into the heart of strategic planning. Over a year, WhiteLabel acted as their CFO and thought partner to the organization’s Executive Director, using finance as a lens to identify areas for streamlining the organization's size and scope. This analysis helped focus efforts on the most impactful programs for the NGO and its stakeholders and right-size the organization to address its new funding reality. WhiteLabel guided the creation of a roadmap for financial recovery, alongside traditional CFO duties such as managing budgets, refining systems, and aiding ISLP's hiring of new accounting staff, saving the firm much-needed capital. This multi-faceted approach led to the NGO’s transformation, ensuring the 20+ year old organization could continue its vital work.