Frequently Asked Questions

This campaign is open to all registered South African businesses who have OR may get a valid purchase order or contract with a large reputable company. Certain high-performance risk transactions like construction, are specifically excluded. Please visit www.profitsharepartners.com for more.

We will inject a minimum of R250,000 and a maximum of R5 million in capital per transaction.

That’s exactly the businesses we are trying to help. We don’t need any of the above to approve a transaction. The idea is that after we help you for a number of transactions, you start building your track record, you gain cash in the bank and you may start preparing financial statements. With every successful deal that we partner with SMEs, we grow the business to gain the track record and history to apply for normal funding from a bank.

We are still there to help and provide capital for your transactions as long as you need, whether or not you can access bank funding.

We don’t use interest in our transactions with our clients. We use a profit-sharing approach. In this way, it doesn’t matter that you don’t qualify for traditional finance and don’t meet the usual, minimum requirements like financial statements, track record, security, etc. We take a risk on the transaction that you want to enter into and not on your financial strength. To take this kind of risk, we participate in the profits of the transaction.

Each transaction is different, and the profit calculation is determined by several factors including amount, term of transaction, complexities and risk, ultimate payment party, supplier risks, the level of our involvement, SME experience, etc. We never want to earn more profit than our client earns, so if a transaction requires that our return be more than our client, we will then decline such a transaction. Ideally, we want to earn a third of the profits, but this can be much lower or higher depending on the factors described above. As you grow and have completed several transactions with us and you can show how you are reducing risks for both of us, we start also taking a lower share of profits. At this stage, you are probably ready to enter the banking sector for finance.

We only participate in a specific transaction. Our capital is used only for a specific project and then returned to us with a share of the profits only on that transaction as agreed to upfront. A Private Equity or Venture Capital company takes shares in your business for the capital they inject in your business say around 30% of the shares of the business. This capital must be used to grow the business and then you have to buy back these shares at the increased value in the future or allowed it to be sold to someone else to allow the Private Equity Investor to recover their investment plus their returns. We allow you to keep 100% of your shares. There is no need to buy back your shares. This way you grow your wealth in your business with nobody else to answer to.

No, we don’t take shares in your business.  You own 100% of the shares in your company. We only share in the profits of the transaction that we provide capital to, nothing else. You keep total control and independence.

Yes, you can still apply. As our focus is around your transaction and not your personal financial circumstances, a bad credit record is not a reason for us to decline a transaction. We do however decline where we believe your actions show that you do not honour your obligations.

Yes, we fund to several local, provincial, and national government departments. We may sometimes decline to fund departments or government institutions that are in financial difficulty or have a bad track record of payment.

There is NO catch! This is what ProfitShare Partners does anyway and this is an initiative to help boost the SA economy by accelerating SME business growth and development. It’s to stimulate ideas and businesses. The reason we are showcasing transactions is to show other SMEs what’s possible and that there are other, alternative options available to them.

For example: Have you been retrenched? Find yourself out of work? Nobody has a better understanding of the problems and solutions required by your last employer than you. Have a great business idea and you can approach your ex-employer or any other large company to give you a contract or purchase order, but you don’t want to use your retrenchment pay-out or you don’t have access to funds to make the deal happen?  Get in touch with us. Over the next few months, we’d like to engage with small businesses looking for opportunities with a monthly cycle of identifying potential SMEs with monthly finalists.

We are looking to give the R1 million cash prize to any SME that has received their share of R100 million capital from ProfitShare Partners during this campaign and has created the most number of jobs by the end of this initiative – 30 April 2021. We encourage SMEs to downloaded the getlion app to start, manage and grow their business – and get rewarded for doing so.