Phoenix Capital

PHOENIX CAPITAL B.V.

PRIVATE PLATFORM FOR STRUCTURING AND EXECUTION OF THE AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE DRC

Unlock Strategic Value. Ensure Execution. Build for the Long Term.

Our structuring and execution platform is designed to provide investors, entrepreneurs, and financial partners with reliable, transparent, and secure access to strategic sectors such as responsible gold and community-based carbon, all in the service of creating sustainable value.

A credible, structured, and secure gateway to high-potential strategic opportunities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By integrating governance, real assets, and advanced technologies – including blockchain, tokenization, drones, and operational monitoring tools – Phoenix Capital deploys an architecture designed to secure cash flows, reduce counterparty risk, standardize execution, and attract discerning capital.

A Different Approach to Strategic Opportunities in the DRC

ABOUT

ABOUT PHOENIX CAPITAL,
FROM MACC TO GOLDCONNECT, AND THE LAUNCH OF THE AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM

Phoenix Capital was not founded on some abstract business model. The company emerged from on-the-ground realities, a concrete need for structuring, and a strong conviction: the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s strategic natural resources can become a major driver of sustainable development, provided they are integrated into a robust, well-governed, and traceable framework capable of attracting discerning capital.
Phoenix Capital now plays a central role within the AXIS National Program, forming a strategic and institutional partnership with the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the heart of the initiative. Its unique position stems from the fact that it acts both as a key implementation operator and as a structuring partner, going far beyond the role of a traditional operator. Phoenix Capital is thus behind the program’s two founding initiatives – MACC and GOLDCONNECT – for which it designed the architecture, implementation framework, and rollout strategy.
The company has designed the economic, institutional, and technological framework for the entire system. It has incorporated tokenization as an innovative financing tool to support the structuring of real assets and sustainable development. It also provides the execution capabilities essential to deploying the model: structuring engineering, securing supply chains, advanced traceability technologies, blockchain integration, drone deployment, operational oversight, and risk mitigation mechanisms.
For its part, the SFDRC provides the institutional framework, governance, and government compliance interface for the initiative, drawing on strategic partnerships with key public stakeholders, including the Central Bank of Congo (BCC), the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Mines, SAEMAPE, the Governors’ Collective, and the Ministry of the Environment.

President - Founder
Alain Lemieux

In other words, Phoenix Capital is not a peripheral player in the AXIS National Program. The company is its operational architect and natural implementation partner.

Beyond gold and carbon, Phoenix Capital’s vision is broader. It involves building a more transparent, disciplined, and credible economy. It also involves deploying essential infrastructure to serve more than 20 million Congolese people. Finally, it contributes to preserving the planet’s second green lung, based on the principle that economic value creation is not at odds with environmental responsibility, but rather becomes its driving force.

  It is this conviction that has guided Phoenix Capital from the outset: in high-potential markets, sustainable value does not arise spontaneously from the resource itself. It arises from the quality of structuring, the mastery of execution, risk mitigation, and the ability to align local interests, institutional discipline, and long-term capital.

Phoenix Capital was created to meet this specific need: to structure, secure, and execute complex strategic initiatives within a rigorous, credible, and effective governance framework.

This ambition is built on a first-rate human and organizational structure, designed to provide strategic depth, execution discipline, and deployment capability.

GENESIS / AXIS

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MACC

The origins of this initiative date back to the initiative launched three years ago as part of the restructuring of the MACC project—the Community Carbon Market—at the request of the governors of the provinces in the Congo Basin.
This grassroots initiative had a clear goal: to ensure that forest communities were the primary beneficiaries of carbon credits generated from their land. Its original model was based on a fundamental insight: sustainable development can only be truly effective if it originates from the communities themselves.

A major effort to rethink and restructure the initiative was then undertaken in order to establish it within a legal, institutional, and financial framework capable of making it credible, governable, and financially viable. This restructuring enabled the coherent integration of forest communities, local leaders, provincial governors, and the Office of the President of the Republic through the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A major effort to rethink and restructure the initiative was then undertaken to establish it within a legal, institutional, and financial framework capable of making it credible, governable, and financially viable. This restructuring enabled the coherent integration of forest communities, local leaders, provincial governors, and the Office of the President of the Republic through the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Completed in October 2024, this phase transformed a powerful local vision into a structured framework capable of aligning with national priorities and engaging with high-level institutional and financial partners.

GOLDCONNECT

Building on this initial experience, a similar discussion was initiated with SAEMAPE regarding the artisanal gold sector. Here too, the need was clear: to start from the realities on the ground, understand the cooperatives’ expectations, address the sector’s operational constraints, and establish a framework capable of formalizing an activity that is fragmented, suboptimal, and insufficiently secure.
It was against this backdrop that the GOLDCONNECT initiative was launched, conceived as a natural extension of the same philosophy as MACC, but this time applied to artisanal gold.

GOLDCONNECT was designed as a structured response to a twofold imperative. On the one hand, to enable the gradual and responsible industrialization of artisanal mining cooperatives through tools for standardization, traceability, and governance. On the other hand, to create the conditions for the emergence of a formalized, bankable, scalable gold supply chain that meets the requirements of international markets and can produce ethically sourced gold to be refined into Swiss investment bars.

It quickly became clear that MACC and GOLDCONNECT should not be viewed as two separate projects, but rather as the first two pillars of a single transformation strategy.

Structure the artisanal gold sector
in a responsible manner and make it attractive to investors

PHOENIX CAPITAL

IT WAS FROM THIS CONVERGENCE THAT PHOENIX CAPITAL WAS BORN.

Phoenix Capital was established to bring these initiatives together under a single framework for execution, financing, and value creation. The company was not conceived as yet another project-based firm, but rather as a true platform for structuring and execution, operating at the intersection of mining, environmental, logistics, and technology value chains.

TOKENIZATION – REAL WORLD ASSET (RWA)

Phoenix Capital was founded on a clear vision: to transform strategic resources into real-world assets that are better organized, better governed, more traceable, and, as a result, more attractive to sophisticated investors.

This vision has naturally been accompanied by financial innovation. To address the fundamental need for grassroots development financing, Phoenix Capital, in collaboration with its partner, the fintech firm Winstant Ltd, has designed a natural resource tokenization framework that makes community carbon and responsibly sourced gold the foundations of a new sustainable financing framework.

SGRT – A sovereign digital token backed by gold – with an environmental benefit

It is within this framework that the FCRT and SGRT have emerged: two sovereign monetary instruments designed to structure, enhance, and mobilize grassroots resources with a view to territorial development, economic sovereignty, and financial discipline. In particular, the SGRT is a sovereign tokenization solution backed by gold, designed to serve as a new tool for trust, reserves, and the circulation of value within a structured environment.
SGRT Token

AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM – FSRDC

However, such an ambition cannot be sustained over the long term without institutional support. With this in mind, Phoenix Capital, in partnership with the FSRDC – which already serves as the trustee and manager for the MACC and GOLDCONNECT initiatives – has helped establish the AXIS National Program.

AXIS provides this vision with a framework for coherence, governance, and implementation. It is not an additional program, but a national structural framework designed to organize execution, align stakeholders, secure cash flows, enhance traceability, support compliance, and make strategic projects backed by real assets financeable.

OUR ECOSYSTEM

Thanks to the quality of the expertise it brings together and the strength of the partnerships it has forged, this ecosystem serves as a true operational arm supporting the AXIS National Program.

Together, these four pillars give Phoenix Capital a rare capability: the ability to transform a strategic vision into credible, structured, and sustainable execution.

Discover the four pillars of the Phoenix ecosystem.

The firm is built on a clear, agile, and disciplined organizational structure centered around Phoenix Capital and its operational entities.

Each responsibility is precisely defined.

Every interaction is designed to promote efficiency, coordination, and high-quality execution. This structure enables Phoenix Capital to combine rigorous governance, operational responsiveness, and long-term performance.
A top-tier executive team. Complementary areas of expertise. Over 300 years of combined experience.

This human capital gives Phoenix Capital a rare depth of insight, operational expertise, and ability to act.
A high-level steering committee has been established to support this initiative. It brings together experts from the political, institutional, technical, technological, and scientific fields.

Its mission is to provide a broad perspective, strategic oversight, and sound judgment in assessing sensitive and complex issues.
Around this core, Phoenix Capital brings together a network of leading strategic partners.

As part of the Phoenix Ecosystem, they expand its capacity for action and strengthen its operational reach.

OUR PRODUCT / SGRT

OUR NEWS

Composed of well-known professionals with recognized and complementary skills, the strength of our team lies in its intergenerational, operational, international, and local nature.

Committed to a revolutionary project, our teams are spread across five continents, including: Montreal, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Toronto, Cannes, Toulouse, Brussels, Geneva, Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Sydney, the DRC, and Sint Maarten D.W.I.
MONTREAL - PARIS - LONDON - FRANKFURT - AMSTERDAM - LOS ANGELES - TORONTO - CANNES - TOULOUSE - BRUSSELS - GENEVA - DUBAI - SINGAPORE - BANGKOK - HONG KONG - SYDNEY - DRC - SINT MAARTEN D.W.I. - MONTREAL - PARIS - LONDON - FRANKFURT - AMSTERDAM - LOS ANGELES - TORONTO - CANNES - TOULOUSE - BRUSSELS - GENEVA - DUBAI - SINGAPORE - BANGKOK - HONG KONG - SYDNEY - DRC - SINT MAARTEN D.W.I.
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