About

It all started when…

Ashenafi Alemu and Jacop B. Rentschler met in a cafe in Denmark while Ashenafi was a foreign exchange student in 2000. Ashenafi and Jacop became really good friends and remained close over the years as they graduated and worked professionally in finance and infrastructure investing across Europe. 

It was when Ashenafi returned to Ethiopia to start a management consulting firm that he saw the high growth potential of local small and medium-sized enterprises across East Africa. As a result, Ashenafi and Jacop launched Zoscales Partners to give investors 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 invest in SMEs with superior return potential whilst believing 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 but simple solution to overcome those challenges and extract value. We call it “the ZP Way”. With this we are generating high returns and have created more than 800 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.