DAI Asset Management (formerly MicroVest) is an investment manager that specializes in allocating private debt capital to responsible Financial Services Providers (FSPs) targeting microentrepreneurs and small businesses in emerging markets. The firm structures and manages investment vehicles with thematic, high-impact mandates to address unmet capital needs while providing emerging markets exposure to investors. Since 2003, the firm has built a track record of investing in institutions whose interests are aligned with the borrowers and communities they serve. To date, DAI Asset Management has disbursed more than $1.7 billion to over 200 microfinance and SME finance institutions in more than 60 countries.
By catalyzing the availability of credit to responsible MFIs and SME Finance Institutions—many of which serve as the first provider of formal credit to underserved microentrepreneurs and small businesses—DAI-AM is facilitating financial inclusion, supporting job creation, promoting gender equality, and reducing poverty.
Financing Underserved Taxipreneurs in South Africa
Supporting Panamanian Microentrepreneurs through Productive Financing
Facilitating Access to Financial Services for Women in Rural India
DAI Asset Management is a proud participant and signatory of a number of impact investment-focused initiatives that support the growth and professionalization of the industry around the world. Throughout our 20-year history, we have sought to build strong partnerships and lead dialogue around impact measurement, benchmarking and transparency to sustainably grow the base of capital that seeks to advance social and environmental priorities while achieving financial returns.
We are a Certified B Corporation, a member of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and 2X Global, and a Signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and The Operating Principles for Impact Management. In 2023, DAI-AM was again selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2024 as an Emeritus Impact Manager, a designation that recognizes established impact fund managers who have been on the IA 50 for at least five years.
