About

It all started when…

Ashenafi Alemu and Jacop B. Rentschler met in a café in Denmark while Ashenafi was a foreign exchange student in 2000. They became close friends and maintained their bond as they graduated and pursued careers in finance and infrastructure investing across Europe.

When Ashenafi returned to Ethiopia to start a management consulting firm, he recognized the high growth potential of local small and medium-sized enterprises across East Africa. Consequently, Ashenafi and Jacop launched Zoscales Partners to provide investors with access to these rapidly growing economies.

Today, Zoscales Partners is…

an award-winning private equity fund in East Africa with offices in Addis Ababa, Nairobi, and Zurich. We currently operate three active platforms: our SME Growth Fund, our healthcare platform, and our Sustainable Noble Assets Platform (SNAP) focused on decarbonizing industries. We believe the most successful businesses are those that also generate positive social and environmental impact. We have identified the top three challenges of investing in frontier markets and developed a unique yet simple solution to overcome these challenges and extract value. We call it “the ZP Way”. With this approach, we are generating high returns and have created more than 1,000 quality jobs in East Africa since 2018.

Zoscales Partners was awarded East African Fund Manager of 2019 by SuperReturn and Best Sustainable Investment Strategy East Africa 2020 and 2021 by CFI.