{"id":114,"date":"2026-02-22T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/?post_type=our-product&#038;p=114"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:06:28","slug":"equity-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"our-product","link":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/our-product\/equity-guarantee\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a guarantee that covers initial capital investment loss for investors providing equity or quasi equity to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Equity Guarantee (EG) provide an alternative source of financing to SMEs facing difficulties in accessing Bank financing due to their weak financial structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Features<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coverage: Up to 50%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USD 1,000,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enables PFIs scale-up equity capital financing of SMEs with promising outlook, but relatively weak financial structures as well as those in the\u00a0 seed and start-up phase, mezzanine financing and risk capital operations;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Through the Capacity Development component of the EG<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Develops and strengthens the skills, management practices, strategies, systems, competencies and abilities of PFIs to effectively increase their SME financing business;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assists SMEs enhance their business managerial capabilities especially in areas which include among others, governance, human capital management, quality control, packaging, financial management, and marketing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eligibility Criteria<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The request must be from Private Equity Funds or Venture Capitals targeting SMEs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The target of the Equity Guarantee cuts across all sectors with an exception of those listed in AGF\u2019s exclusion list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":115,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-114","our-product","type-our-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-product\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our-product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxygene.co.ke\/agf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}