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Oct 19, 2026
Dmytro BorodayGUEST
And these are the national development financial institutions of European countries.
Dmytro BorodayGUEST
So we had a SWED Fund, Proparco, Norfund and FMO at the first closing.
Dmytro BorodayGUEST
And the way it works with our fundraising is that it's really important to have the anchor LPs who would establish the fund and basically validate the model.
Dmytro BorodayGUEST
And then we do subsequent closing.
Michael LiebreichHOST
So they are, that's a pool of money put together by multiple countries, Europe in one case, and part of the World Bank in the case of IFC.
Michael LiebreichHOST
And then you have a number of national development finance organizations.
Michael LiebreichHOST
FMO is the, don't know what it stands for, it's in Dutch.
Michael LiebreichHOST
Because it's the Netherlands.
Krishna SwaroopGUEST
out very well as joff said they have been a long-term support of a sun king even before i arrived onto the scene so i think they made their first investment they have been evaluated since 2019 and just ahead of covet they made their first investment in the company And they, in fact, led the TFI investment into company.
Krishna SwaroopGUEST
They partnered with North Fund and FMO.
Krishna SwaroopGUEST
They were the lead investor in that round for a debt facility.
Krishna SwaroopGUEST
And they were also the first guys to put the synthetic debt, synthetic local currency debt onto the table.
19 MINS LATER
Chigozie UbahHOST
So in the history of the relationship between bii and sun king what's been the value at beyond capital and how has that supported sun king and actually growing to the point where it currently is and obviously going to a point in the future beyond where companies currently position
Geoffrey ManleyGUEST
i think Investment from BII or other DFIs can often serve a signaling effect to other investors that this company has been evaluated thoroughly, not just on its financial aspects, but also from a broader responsible investing perspective, looking at the development impact that the company is generating, the way it manages environmental and social risks, because these are all part of our holistic evaluation.
Geoffrey ManleyGUEST
And so I think when you see a company attracting investment from not just BII, but Krishna mentioned FMO and Norfund, that sends a really strong signal to the market that this is a serious company and one that is
Chigozie UbahHOST
developing in a healthy and
Theo KockenGUEST
I was right that we should never be bigger than 5,200 because things got more boring when we got bigger, and people started to plan in meetings and make procedures and, uh, the whole thing became bureaucratic.
Theo KockenGUEST
[chuckles] Um, but fortunately, and this is important in what I'm doing now, is that in 2007, uh, I helped the development bank in the Netherlands, FMO, to set up a fund called TCX, The Currency Exchange.
Larry KotlikoffHOST
Mm-hmm.
Theo KockenGUEST
And TCX was, um, was meant to do the following.
8 MINS LATER
Theo KockenGUEST
We did it, uh, success has many fathers, as we say.
Larry KotlikoffHOST
Yeah.
Theo KockenGUEST
Uh, what I did was I, I helped FMO to set up the fund, and w- we did the risk management at Cardano.
Theo KockenGUEST
We, we made all the calculations.