How we work when cash isn't the answer
The Caban model for strong businesses that aren't yet investable: professional services on credit, in exchange for a minority stake. Your business becomes fundable; our incentives stay locked to yours.
Most strong African businesses fail to raise for fixable reasons: management accounts that don't hold up, a messy cap table, no defensible valuation, an investment case written for the founder rather than the funder. Fixing those things costs money the business doesn't have — which is the trap.
Our answer: Caban's network delivers the professional services — financial management, legal structuring, marketing, capital-raise preparation — on credit, in exchange for a minority equity stake. We also help sell what the business produces. When the business becomes profitable, it repays. When it becomes investable, we introduce it to our investor pool.
Our incentives and the entrepreneur's are the same: the business must work. We don't earn from fees whether you succeed or not — we earn when you do.
The journey
Assessment
We evaluate the business against our criteria: real market, capable founders, fixable gaps.
Build
Services delivered on credit — finance, legal, governance, investment case — while the business keeps trading.
Raise or repay
Investable businesses meet our investor network. Profitable businesses repay. Either way, the equity keeps us at the table with you.
Think your business fits?
The readiness check is the front door to the services-for-equity pipeline.
Check your readiness