Inuka Capital

Many family offices, private wealth holders and impact-investors are increasingly recognising the opportunity and moral imperative of directing capital to emerging markets including Africa, Latin America and Asia. Yet two inter-linked obstacles persist:

1. 1. Data opacity and credibility gap: In emerging markets, high-quality, granular data on impact outcomes for example, the number of individuals reached, enterprise-level performance, gender/youth inclusion, and rural community participation is often missing, inconsistent or difficult to access. This creates uncertainty and risk for investors accustomed to mature data ecosystems in developed markets.

2. 2. Regulatory and structural complexity: Investing in emerging markets also means confronting distinct legal, regulatory, tax-incentive and investment-readiness challenges. Without a clear, accessible “index” of these factors by country and sector, capital tends to stay concentrated in familiar geographies, reinforcing wealth accumulation patterns rather than redistribution toward growth regions.

In Tanzania and the wider East Africa region, there are significant high-impact opportunities (SME growth, clean & renewable energy, inclusive agriculture, youth employment). However, many private investors remain cautious because they lack robust tools to surface, evaluate and monitor impact down to individual beneficiaries, and to compare regulatory readiness across markets. As a result, capital that could enable local regeneration, enterprise growth and inclusion is either under-deployed or delayed.

Inuka Capital (Swahili for work for Uplifting Investments) aims to bridge this gap by building a digital public good a platform, freely accessible (not locked behind exclusive paywalls) for local advisers, enterprises and investors that combines impact-data at individual and enterprise level, and a legal/regulatory index for emerging markets. It directly addresses the barrier of data-and-structural risk, unlocking private wealth flows into high-leverage emerging-market opportunities and thereby shifting capital toward inclusive growth rather than accumulation.

Inuka Capital consists of two core modules integrated in a cloud-dashboard environment:

• 1. Impact Dashboard: This module allows investors, family offices, advisors and enterprises to visualize and track impact down to the individual beneficiary or enterprise in emerging markets. For example, a clean-energy investment may show the number of households electrified, percentage of women-led businesses supported, youth employment generated, rural community reach, enterprise growth metrics. The platform surfaces gaps (where expected outcomes have not been achieved) and provides benchmarking (how this region/sector compares to other emerging markets or sectors).

• 2. Emerging Markets Impact Investment Index: This module collects, organises and presents in easily-digestible form a repository of legal, tax, regulatory and investment-readiness information by country and industry. For example: what is the tax incentive for renewable energy in Tanzania, how do SME investment regulations differ in Kenya, land-rights issues for rural agriculture in Uganda. This gives investors clarity and reduces structural uncertainty that often limit their ability to efficiently and confidently deploy capital in emerging markets.

Our Approach to Execution

• - Dashboard Development: We will build a comprehensive dashboard that will provide relevant needed data for impact and the emerging markets impact investment index. The dashboard will act as a central repository public good with the goal of accelerating investment across emerging markets.

• - Build an Impact index for one emerging market country: We will collaborate with a local legal regulatory researcher to map key laws, tax incentive mechanisms, investment-readiness indicators for the sector in Tanzania with the goal of translating our findings into an index that can be relied upon for impact investors, private wealth and family offices seeking to invest in Tanzania. A similar approach will be replicated and applied in other markets globally as well.

• - Pilot user engagement: Onboard 1–2 family offices or private wealth advisors (local or regional) to test the index and data provided on our platform, provide feedback, test decision-support scenarios.

• - Ensure the impact dashboard platform tool is built with inclusion and equity in mind (tracking data on women/youth/underserved communities) and is sharable within the broader practitioner community.

• By the end of the February 2026, we hope to achieve the following objectives:
  
  - A working prototype version of the impact dashboard and impact investment index, with relevant data across various high potential sectors and visualising impact data for 50 small-owned businesses, including breakdown by women-led firms, youth-owned firms and rural community participation.

  • - A detailed impact investment-readiness index for Tanzania in the pilot sector, enabling investors/advisors to quickly assess legal, tax and compliance factors for emerging market investment.

  • - Engaged up to two family offices/private-wealth advisors to test the dashboard, benchmark opportunities and provide user-feedback.

  • - Produced a public playbook document for how to replicate the tool in other countries/sectors, including data-architecture, regulatory-index modelling and user-engagement strategy.