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Our Mission
To accelerate youth enterprise, build high-potential businesses, and expand access to the finance, capabilities, and opportunities that support sustainable growth.
YABO AVENCORE GROUP
About Us
Building businesses, developing entrepreneurs and expanding access to opportunity across Africa.
WHO WE ARE
One Group.
Multiple Pathways to Growth.
YABO AVENCORE Group brings together complementary businesses designed to support different stages of the growth journey.
From financial solutions and business development to practical learning and access to markets, our Group is structured around the belief that sustainable growth requires more than one solution.
Entrepreneurs need the right skills.
Businesses need strong strategies.
Growth requires access to capital.
Opportunity becomes meaningful when businesses
connect to customers, partners, and markets.
YABO exists to help bring these elements together.
OUR PURPOSE
Turning Potential
Into Progress.
Our purpose is to create an environment where ambition can develop into enterprise, capability can become commercial value, and opportunity can translate into sustainable growth.
We work to:
Support the development of stronger businesses
Expand access to financial and commercial solutions
Develop practical entrepreneurial and professional capability
Connect businesses to markets and opportunities
Strengthen collaboration across the enterprise ecosystem
Create pathways for greater economic participation
At the centre of everything we do is a simple belief:
Ambition deserves opportunity.
OUR DIRECTION
Our Mission & Vision.
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Our Vision
To build a leading African ecosystem for turning entrepreneurial ambition into thriving businesses and scalable opportunities.
HOW YABO CREATES VALUE
Four Connected Areas.
One Broader Platform.
YABO AVENCORE Group operates through four specialised business divisions, each focused on a critical part of business growth.
01 / FINANCE
iMali360
Supporting individuals, entrepreneurs, and small businesses with appropriate financial and commercial solutions.
Personal Finance
Business Finance Support
Working Capital Support
Financial Solutions
Explore iMali360
02 / VENTURES
Suluhu YABO Ventures
Providing venture development, business advisory, strategic support, and growth solutions for entrepreneurs, businesses, and institutions.
Business Advisory
Venture Development
Investment Readiness
Growth & Scaling
Explore Suluhu YABO
03 / CAPABILITY
Lumara YABO Institute
Developing practical skills, confidence, competence, leadership, and enterprise readiness through focused learning programmes.
Entrepreneurship Development
Business Skills
Youth Employability
Leadership & Capacity Development
Explore Lumara YABO
04 / ACCESS
Uhusiano YABO BranchCo
Helping businesses strengthen market connections, distribution opportunities, partnerships, and commercial participation.
Market Access
Distribution Support
Business Connectivity
Enterprise Participation
Explore Uhusiano YABO
THE YABO ADVANTAGE
We Look at the
Full Journey of Growth.
YABO is not built around one isolated service.
Our integrated model allows individuals and businesses to engage with the Group at different points in their journey.
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A young entrepreneur may begin with training.
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A growing business may need strategic guidance.
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Another may require access to finance.
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A more established enterprise may need stronger market connections.
By bringing these capabilities together, YABO creates a broader platform that can support growth in a more connected and practical way.
HOW WE WORK
Our Approach.
Practical
We focus on solutions that are relevant, actionable, and designed around real business needs.
Integrated
Our divisions complement one another, creating multiple pathways through which individuals and businesses can access support.
Partnership-Driven
We recognise that sustainable growth is often created through collaboration between businesses, institutions, communities, and strategic partners.
Opportunity-Focused
Our work is ultimately centred on creating stronger pathways to economic and commercial participation.
Growth-Oriented
We help clients strengthen their foundations, improve their readiness, and pursue sustainable opportunities for growth.
SUPPORTING THE ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM
Who We Serve.
YABO works with stakeholders across different stages of development and growth.
Young People
Supporting access to learning, enterprise readiness, financial solutions, and pathways to economic opportunity.
Entrepreneurs
Helping founders develop stronger businesses through strategy, capability, financial support, and market access.
Businesses
Supporting growth through advisory, commercial finance solutions, capability development, and market connections.
Institutions & Partners
Working collaboratively on enterprise development, capability-building initiatives, and broader ecosystem programmes.
OUR BELIEF
Strong businesses are created when ambition is matched with capability, capital, strategy and access.
YABO AVENCORE Group was built around this belief. Our role is to help create the conditions in which people can develop, enterprises can strengthen, and opportunities can grow.
BUILD THE NEXT CHAPTER WITH YABO
Where Ambition
Becomes Opportunity.
Whether you are developing an idea, building a business, strengthening your capabilities, seeking financial solutions, or looking for better access to markets, YABO provides multiple pathways to move forward.