Unique Track Record

Our Company, Our Experience

Symbiotics' mission is to contribute to job creation and the economic development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly those active in areas related to food, homes, jobs and energy working in a sustainable manner. We achieve this goal by offering investments in partner microfinance institutions to our clients to whom we provide three complementary and independent business proposals: research and advisory services, asset management services and brokerage and structuring services. Each activity is managed by a separate legal entity and staff. In addition, there is a corporate unit providing support to all three businesses.

Since its launch in Geneva, Switzerland in 2004, Symbiotics has:

• positioned itself as a leader in microfinance investment services
• offered financial intermediation services to over 25 investment funds specialized in microfinance, in addition to institutional investors and development banks
• invested over 1,056 million dollars in microfinance and the development of small and medium enterprises since 2005
• visited and analyzed over 628 financial institutions, investing in over 113, in over 42 emerging countries
• funder over 409,630 micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby indirectly supporting the access to capital and financial services to over 2 million people from low-income households
• created Symbiotics Asset Management, an asset management company that has offered above benchmark returns since its launch in 2008
• designed and developed Syminvest.com, the biggest online research and brokerage platform in the microfinance industry
• hired more than 69 experts in 4 continents , working in their offices in Cape Town, Geneva, Mexico City and Singapore