For Investors

We bring Capital Infrastructure, and the institutional readiness, Our partners bring the scale

The investment opportunity.

Arise Funds is actively deploying blended capital into workforce development and technology companies globally. If you are a DFI, impact foundation, family office, or government body with a mandate in workforce, technology, or economic development - this is what engagement looks like.

We invest in early-stage workforce development operators and technology platforms in high-growth markets - typically at pre-institutional-capital stage, with active operations and an employer-integrated model.

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Where talent meets work infrastructure.

From security operations centers to data analytics labs — across Nigeria, Sierra Leone, the United States and beyond — Arise Funds portfolio companies build the environments where real careers begin.

The Instrument

Blended Capital Facility

We structure blended capital vehicles combining concessional first-loss capital, income-linked human capital financing, and equity. Capital is patient — structured around employer pipeline depth and verified employment outcomes, not arbitrary program timelines.

Current Raise

Seeking Aligned Capital Partners

Arise Funds is currently in active conversation with DFIs, impact foundations, and family offices. We are building a blended capital facility to accelerate the ICBM Nigeria deployment and fund expansion into new markets. Minimum engagement and terms are discussed directly — request the Investor Brief to begin that conversation.

Current Focus

ICBM Nigeria – 50,000 Employment Target

Our flagship deployment — currently operating across Abuja and Enugu — is the proof-of-model that anchors our institutional capital raise. Cohort 1 employment confirmed. Cohort 2 active. 50,000 target by 2029.

For Family Offices

A Founder-Led Fund with a Proven Model

If you are a family office looking for impact that is measurable, a founder you can meet, and a model you can visit — Arise Funds is built for that conversation. You can see the campuses, meet the graduates, and review the outcomes data directly. Capital is patient, terms are discussed personally, and every serious inquiry is answered by Aisha Lewis directly.

For Sovereign & Government Capital

The National Economic Case

Every ICBM graduate represents a tax-contributing, formally employed citizen. At 50,000 graduates, the model generates measurable GDP contribution, reduces youth unemployment, and builds a nationally competitive digital workforce.

What We Look For

Aligned Capital Partners

We are building toward long-term institutional partnerships with DFIs, development banks, and sovereign wealth funds. If you deploy patient capital with an impact mandate — request our Investor Brief.

The Team

The Arise Funds team brings together impact investment strategy, federal systems expertise, and 30+ years of human capital leadership.

Aisha Saaka Lewis

Aisha Saaka Lewis

Chief Executive Officer

Most impact investors come from finance. Aisha Saaka Lewis comes from AI. As a Data & AI Strategist at Accenture Federal Services — where she led analytics transformation for public sector clients including enterprise reporting oversight for PEPFAR — and a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, she spent her career applying technology and data to the hardest problems in government and global development.

What she kept seeing was a gap: the infrastructure to connect capital, technology, and workforce development existed in pieces but never as a coherent investment thesis.

LaTonya Blakes

Vice President, Human Resources

When Arise Funds deploys capital into a portfolio company, LaTonya Blakes is the person who goes in to build it. Seconded from Arise Funds to SBTS Group LLC, she leads the HR infrastructure, compliance frameworks, talent systems, and organizational design.

Her career spans more than three decades in human capital leadership, including a decade at Booz Allen Hamilton where she directed HR for the National Defense University.

LaTonya

Advisory

Our advisors provide strategic guidance and deep industry expertise to support Arise Funds' mission and global impact initiatives.

Laura C. Rudert

Global Strategy & Delivery Leader

Laura C. Rudert has spent more than 20 years deploying over $4 billion across climate, infrastructure, and development programs in 30+ countries. She led a $525M compact in Côte d'Ivoire and helped design Power Africa.

At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she served as Deputy Director of Strategy & Management. An HKS MPP alumna — she has operated on both sides of the capital table.

Laura

Get in Touch

Ready to deploy capital into workforce infrastructure?

Arise Funds is actively building partnerships with impact investors, development finance institutions, and government bodies. If that describes you we respond to every serious inquiry personally.

Or reach us directly

info@arisefunds.com