Podcast: Conscious Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing

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May 5, 2021
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The Future of Heart-Powered Entrepreneurship interviewed me about my work at Fledge, Africa Eats, and The Angel Accelerator.

Takeaways from this podcast include:

  • Luni works with mission driven for profit entrepreneurs to help them launch and grow their companies.
  • He recently created an accelerator for investors to help them invest in conscious companies
  • When people think about improving the world’s problems, they think philanthropy and nonprofits. But for profit companies are a more efficient way to solve these problems
  • What is a conscious company? There are 17 defined categories that Luni has defined for a conscious company – hunger, inequality, poverty, sustainability are a few of the categories.

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Superpowers for Good: Investing to End Hunger and Poverty in Africa

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10 months ago
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Superpowers for Good

Devin: What is your superpower? Luni: I can see paradigms. Most people, they live inside paradigms, and they don’t notice. “Most people in Africa are farmers, and they’re poor not because they’re uneducated or any less intelligent than anyone else,” says Africa Eats founder and CEO Luni Libes. “They’re poor because no one buys their outputs. No one is buying what they’re growing.” Share...

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The Forest of All Knowledge

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April 9, 2023
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09April
The Forest of All Knowledge

Every year or so I find myself lost on a hike through the Forest of All Knowledge, and, so far, have enjoyed those journeys quite a bit more than one my the best YouTubers, CPG Grey. If you’ve never seen his videos, start with Rules for Rulers and Airport Codes and the State Flags. If you want to understand the Forest of All Knowledge and the wayfinding needed to reach the other side, watch...

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Progress on the UN SDGs

In Impact ecosystem, SDGs, Talks
March 24, 2023
1 Min read
24March
SDG progress report

You can’t work in impact without talking about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For impact investors, the SDGs are our de-facto standard ontology to describe our interests. What isn’t often discussed is the progress of these goals toward the 2030 deadline the UN set. At this point, seven years away, that deadline, unfortunately, seems ridiculously short. It feels like most of...

March 22, 2023

Fireside chat: The Secret to Adaptation Investment

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March 22, 2023
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22March
Sankalp Africa - The Secret to Adaptation Investment

At the 10th Sankalp Africa Summit in Nairobi, Kenya a panel of investors, adaptation & resilience businesses, and intermediary institutions curated by GIZ and DFC spoke at “The Secret to adaptation investment”. Panel Participants  Eric Onchoga (Irrihub) | Martin Kiilu (Growth Africa) | Rebecca Mincy (Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund) | Luni Libes (Africa Eats) | Peter Fry (Kua...

December 7, 2022

Filling in the Missing Middle

In Advice, Investing, Talks
December 7, 2022
1 Min read
07December
Filling in the Missing Middle of Capital -- Luni Libes

“The Missing Middle” is what we call the gap in finance the majority of entrepreneurs face in getting from a viable prototype or early customers to a full-scale proven business. In Part 1, Luni explains who he is, and how he came to fill in this otherwise missing middle.   In Part 2, Luni jumps back to the history of venture capital to explain the pervasive paradigm that leads to...

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