Aug 3, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
Host Henry Kaestner sits down with Matthew Rohrs, leader of Synapis, to explore one of the most overlooked opportunities in frontier-market investing: the "missing middle" — businesses too large for…
Matthew RohrsGuest
Henry KaestnerHost
Kikwetu grows flowers on 30 acres, uh, near Mount Kenya, and exports them to Europe and the Middle East.
And she's got, uh, 400 regular employees, 100 day laborers, and through the profits of what she's done with the company over the last three or four years, has created a clean water program.
So the part of Kenya they're in, uh, is relatively arid, so they're drilling boreholes.
And she looks around her community and says, "Lack of water access is a problem for the community." So her arrangement is you can come and get water, just don't resell it.
She's seen youth that are drug addicted and on the streets, so she's created a soccer club for them.
She's got a kitchen where they feed 300 people a week out of the profits of the company.
Kikwetu grows flowers on 30 acres, uh, near Mount Kenya, and exports them to Europe and the Middle East.
And she's got, uh, 400 regular employees, 100 day laborers, and through the profits of what she's done with the company over the last three or four years, has created a clean water program.
So the part of Kenya they're in, uh, is relatively arid, so they're drilling boreholes.
And she looks around her community and says, "Lack of water access is a problem for the community." So her arrangement is you can come and get water, just don't resell it.
She's seen youth that are drug addicted and on the streets, so she's created a soccer club for them.
She's got a kitchen where they feed 300 people a week out of the profits of the company.
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