Catalyst Microfinance Investors (CMI) is a private equity fund that invests in emerging, high potential MFIs, selected and managed by a team of globally renowned microfinance practitioners and corporate finance specialists. CMI is managed from Mauritius and supported by ASA in Bangladesh and Sequoia in the Netherlands.

CMI believes that providing much needed financial services to the poor can be both efficient and profitable if the institutions that provide these services are properly managed and funded. By encouraging efficient, for-profit processes in its investees, CMI seeks to create and enable the next generation of market-leading, high-performing, scalable MFIs around the world, and to deliver an attractive proposition to investors looking for a combination of financial and social returns.