WHERE WE INVEST
Every rand you invest with SUM1 stays local and circulates within our communities, backing the businesses that matter most, and turning collective effort into shared growth. It’s not just investing, it’s impact you can feel.
Investing in What Matters
We channel collective savings into trusted community businesses, giving them the capital to grow. Through 3–12 month asset-backed loans, repayments recycle into new opportunities, multiplying impact. This creates jobs, expands businesses, and strengthens local economies.
AGRICULTURE
From poultry farmers to hydroponics.
MANUFACTURING
From ice-makers to 3D printers.
LOGISTICS
From bicycle deliveries to e-mobility.
FOOD & BEVERAGE
From your local chesa nyama to sauce makers.
*not an exhaustive list of sectors.
Investing in SUM1
See how stokvels are backing real businesses. Helping entrepreneurs hire their next staff member, restock their shelves, or finally buy that second delivery bike. Every rand invested moves a dream forward and a community upward.
Mebala: Gauteng
Mebala is a slow fashion brand that manufacturers sustainable and technology-enabled leather products. They have been featured on international TV, showcased at South African Fashion Week, and export their products to both the USA and Europe.
UkuHamba Prosthetics and Orthotics: Gauteng
Ukuhamba is an award-winning healthcare manufacturing company that uses 3D technology to produce high-quality, low-cost prosthetics and orthotics to give amputees and individuals with disabilities back their independence.
Soweto Farmers Market: Gauteng
Soweto Farmers Market is an innovative tech-enabled ecosystem connecting local farmers to schools, households and businesses through on-demand delivery, community markets and their school-farm initiatives.
Remlo Cosmetics: Gauteng
Remlo Cosmetics is an aesthetic wellness and personal body care company, specializing in aesthetic treatments, niche skin care products, Sun protection and Fragrances inspired by the world’s leading brands but cultured to satisfy the African pallet.
Izaza Eyewear: Western Cape
Izaza Eyewear is a homegrown sunglasses brand that provides unique eyewear which is designed with the customer in mind based on trend analysis. From a car boot ekasi to serving customers all over the world.
Estratweni Mobile Foods: Western Cape
A fast food and catering company that brings authentic kasi flavor to tourists, corporate clients, and local communities from deliveries, corporate events or their flagship restaurant in Phillipi.
Azowel Projects: KwaZulu-Natal
Azowel cultivates high-demand commodity crops using state of the art hydroponic technologies. They sell their produce to leading grocery retailers all year round with a primary focus on tomatoes, leafy greens, peppers and cucumbers.
Assets Behind the Impact
Our stokvels power alternative assets; things you can touch, see, and understand. These are businesses that create jobs, put money into townships, and give back to the people who invest in them.
Our Supporters
From funders, advisors and partners, we’re backed by people who want to see stokvels thrive. Their support helps us focus on safe, smart growth putting your goals first, always.