The Story

Leadfund Capital was founded in 2020 during a time of volatility and uncertainty with the global Covid-19 pandemic through a meeting of minds and a shared passion and commitment to the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises community in our home country, South Africa. We founded a focused boutique financial solutions group to serve the SMME Community with tailored solutions and a sustainable approach to create certainty, longevity, and success for our clients.

LeadFund Capital has forged its business on the values and principles of the Triangle. The Triangle is the strongest shape and is often used as the anchor for a foundation. Our Triangle will provide the anchor and base for our Customer’s needs and requirements. Our foundation is our Customer’s success. We are inspired by our Customers and therefore: We lead from the front, we provide solutions, we provide direction, we provide growth, and we lead with success.

Our Distinctive Approach

  • Our core Values and Principles drive strong Customer engagement, loyalty and success
  • Across our businesses we have a deep knowledge of the different industry sectors and asset classes we serve, which allows us to provide lending solutions and faster access to capital when Customers need it the most
  • We offer Solutions – we listen to our Customers, understanding what will drive their success. We then personalise our products to create bespoke solutions to fit our Customers’ needs which will create sustainable growth and success over the long-term
  • We provide our Customers with access to capital to match their capital requirements with an appropriate structure, price and maturity
  • We employ experienced staff, each a specialist in our chosen markets, driven by a strong Customer led value add, growth and success
  • Our solutions are secured, with moderate to aggressive loan to value ratios, small loan sizes and both short- to long term maturity profiles
  • We lead from the front and we are consistent in what we do, creating confidence and continuity in our Customers’ success stories

Our Leadership

The Management of LeadFund Capital consists of experienced bankers, risk specialists, entrepreneurs and chartered accountants with a combined experience exceeding 200 years. The experience expands across various asset classes, lending products and structured finance solutions. Our networks consist of reputable alternative funders, Tier 1 banks, Tier 2 Banks, debt originators, intermediaries, treasury outsource companies, insurance underwriters, FinTechs and a Customer base from various industry sectors and asset classes.

Our skills extend across both short-term and long-term lending products, derivative trading as well as capital raising and distribution of capital. The management of LeadFund can offer your business a lending, trading, and investment packaged solution. A solution whereby the products can complement each other to always yield a better return for our Customer, but also minimises and mitigates the downside risk through appropriate risk management techniques. This results in raising capital in a manner that our Customers realise the financial benefit over the short- and long-term.

We are risk specialists with a flair for entrepreneurial engagement to create growth for the SMME Community. Our passion drives our confidence to build and grow the SMME Community in South Africa.

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