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Affordable Technology Investments
Within its focus on the technology sector and an emphasis on business building as the key driver for value generation, the TLcom investment team is leveraging its significant personal, professional and non-profit exposure to developing markets to pursue return generating responses to global inequalities and to vastly underserved needs of low income population segments, both as consumers and as active participants in productive value chains. TLcom proactively targets impact entrepreneurs providing for-profit, affordable ICT solutions addressing bottom of the pyramid (BOP) segments in low income, high growth developing markets.
TLcom’s investment team believes that technology has a significant potential to profitably serve demand segments of low income sectors of the population, accounting for a vast economic opportunity. BOP demographics have historically been largely ignored by conventional ICT business models; in reality significant opportunities exist for original business models capable of generating strong economical value in BOP as well as in developed markets. Technology and venture capital expertise, as well as familiarity with BOP demand for product and services, are key ingredients to generate social impact and attractive financial returns for investors via the application of the venture capital model to such emerging market opportunities.
Depending on the nature, stage and geography of such opportunities, TLcom participates to this space with sizeable investments completed via existing vehicles (such as the TLcom II fund investments in mobile technology providers Movirtu and Runcom), and a dedicated seed fund.
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