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Government fundSeed · 24 people tracked
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Investment thesis
UNCDF aims to crowd in capital for high-risk, frontier and last-mile markets, focusing on Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, and countries in special situations. Working in partnership with UN entities and development partners, it deploys risk-absorbing instruments, mechanisms, and structuring advisory to deliver scalable, blended finance solutions. Its goal is to derisk investments, close financing gaps, and build investable markets that pave the way for commercial finance and scale-up by development finance institutions and multilateral development banks, ultimately contributing to job creation, sustained economic growth, and equitable prosperity across nearly 80 developing countries.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 25, 2026.
Team · 24 people
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Fabrizio Cometto is an Investment Services Advisor in the Investment Finance Oversight Division at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), working in impact investing and development finance. Prior to a 2015 career change, he spent 15 years in business management roles across industries ranging from industrial products to services and companies from startups to multinationals. A French-Italian bi-national with work experience across Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., he is fluent in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, and Italian.
Karen Vardanyan is Chief Financial Officer at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), with experience in UN operations, financial resource management, and early-stage investing. Areas of focus include sustainable development, impact investment, gender lens investing, ESG, governance, risk, and compliance.
Maria Perdomo is the Regional Investment Team Lead for Asia-Pacific at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), where she oversees the officers who source, structure, and deliver blended-finance solutions and works to shift the portfolio from grant-based aid toward catalytic instruments across economic resilience, nature and climate finance, and energy transition. She has more than 20 years of experience in development finance, during which she has mobilized over USD 50 million in commitments and directed results-based and blended finance to more than 100 financial institutions and private-sector partners in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific. Her work has focused on expanding access to finance and building partnerships with financial institutions, central banks, UN agencies, NGOs, and development partners.
Ryno Byleveldt is an Investment Portfolio Management Advisor at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), with a background in banking and the development finance industry. His areas of experience include credit risk, corporate finance, guarantees, and strategic planning. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Bradford in the UK.
What they invest in
from 1 of 1 portfolio companiesFintech ×1Impact & Social Good ×1
HQs:Senegal×1
Investments · 1 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathFrequently asked questions
- What stage does UNCDF invest at?
- UNCDF invests at the Seed stage.
- What sectors does UNCDF focus on?
- UNCDF focuses on Climate Tech, Fintech, Impact & Social Good, Sector Agnostic.
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