Annual report 2017

TAEF Fellows Program Student internship 2nd edition

The Tunisian American Enterprise Fund (TAEF) Fellows is a unique internship program launched in 2017 specifically for students interested in supporting SME (small and medium enterprises) growth in Tunisia. It is designed to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people while providing talented interns to TAEF investees to work on pre-selected, intensive projects.

An impact investor An innovative financier A committed partner

TAEF intends to strengthen small and medium enterprises, to invest in sustainable growth and to lead to development impact through the entire segment of the SME Tunisian market: microenterprises, family owned small & mid cap SMEs, high growth startups and large cap SMEs.

TAEF is a resource and a partner to its investees contributing in their future with talent, innovation, energy, financial resources, technical assistance support and monitoring.

Bowman Cutter, TAEF chairman statement at the US Congressional hearing on enterprise funds

Tunisia is strategically important…if you run down the list of the kinds of things that you use it as indicators of countries you ought to invest in...

Innovative, inclusive and multidimensional investment philosophy for development and growth.

Since incorporation, TAEF implemented a distinctive investment strategy and invested in a large range of small and medium enterprises.

80 million dollars Committed for growth.

80 million dollars to stimulate economic development and job creation by investing in Tunisian businesses throughout the country.

A unique
investment approach.

TAEF invests in the growth of Tunisian businesses : microenterprises, small mid cap SMEs and some larger SMEs.
We apply innovative financing mechanisms and techniques targeted to the companies’ size and life stage whether early, growth & development or maturity.