For Investors · Returns-seeking Capital
Back the largest organised deal flow of African university spin-outs the continent has produced.
MARATTO™ is constructing the deal flow layer that did not exist before.Continental university networkOperator-led execution benchDisclosure-to-term-sheet methodology
Continental
University network
Engagement across Africa—not isolated pilots.
Structured
Deal-flow discipline
From disclosure through to investable spin-outs.
Operator-led
Fractional execution
Domain operators alongside research offices.
AfCFTA-scale
Single-market economics
Cross-border licensing and scale where the agreement allows.
What You Are Backing
Three things, working as one.
Deal flow at continental scale.
MARATTO sits inside university research offices across Africa. Every research disclosure that meets commercialisation criteria becomes a tracked opportunity. The pipeline is named, dated, and structured.
The MIT-Stanford-Cambridge layer.
MARATTO is the operational system that lets African universities access the commercialisation capability that built Cambridge Enterprise, Oxford University Innovation and Imperial Enterprise. Delivered as a service, with founding equity for the universities themselves.
AfCFTA-scale unit economics.
A single market of 1.4 billion people gives commercialised African research a runway it has never had. Research produced in Lagos can be sold in Lusaka and licensed in Accra. AfCFTA changes the maths, but only if the supply side exists. Today, it largely does not.
What Investor Access Looks Like
Inside the platform.
Quarterly curated deal flow briefings, sector-tagged and stage-tagged
Direct introductions to MARATTO spinouts via the GALLOP™ fractional executive layer
Early sight of VENTURA™ cohort outputs before public demo days
Co-investment routes alongside MARATTO’s founding-equity stake at the university level
Sector-led research access via INNCOMM Rating™ V2 school-level data
Capital Types We Work With
Returns-seeking, in three flavours.
Venture capital
Pre-seed to Series A, sector-agnostic across deep tech, agritech, healthtech, climate, fintech. Reference: Sabou Capital.
Debt and revenue-based financing
For spinouts past technical risk and pre-Series A. Working capital and growth debt instruments.
Blended and impact-tilted capital
Returns-seeking with mandate flexibility. DFIs deploying commercial windows, family offices, mission-aligned funds.
Two routes in.
If you want the model and the pipeline walked through end-to-end, book a discovery call. If you want to be added to the investor distribution list, sign up.