FORSA's private equity arm aims to invest in developed and profitable businesses in the region with an established track record and the ability to grow by volume and to build brand equity.
FORSA invests expansion capital into proven businesses
FORSA's PE objective is aligned with FORSA's overall mandate to provide women investors with privileged access to the private equity asset class, which has healthy risk-adjusted returns and provides a sophisticated form of risk diversification to an often real estate overweight portfolio.
FORSA's PE arm also services the female community by seeking to invest expansion capital preferentially in businesses run by women, or businesses that deliver products or services for women, or businesses that employ a significant female labor force. However, strict measures of performance must be passed by any potential investment before FORSA will commit its capital, irrespective of gender-orientation.
FORSA manages its portfolio of companies with a long term view, nurturing and supporting growth or economies of scale. With a team of experienced and high caliber professionals and an important corporate network of relationships with our parent company Dubai World, FORSA is an added valued investor in the companies it invests in.
The businesses FORSA invests in are grown through time and exited
gradually to bring healthy returns to our women investors
Through time and as FORSA's portfolio of companies grow, we will enhance value through cross selling, leveraging upon distribution and vendor networks and FORSA's VC businesses as they mature. Co-investment and institutional placement will also turn prevalent, extending lucrative investment opportunities more widely through the investor community.
