Bri Losoya-Evora, Learning and Impact Manager for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development, recently participated in a GIST TechConnect webinar along with Natasha Ramanujam, the Head of Growth & Strategy of BEMPU Health. The conversation was lively, with early stage entrepreneurs from over 20...
Earlier this month the Argidius Foundation published a report featuring CEED titled: Networking Works: Business Network Organizations help Small and Growing Businesses grow their revenues and create jobs. The report explored the impact that networks can have on business outcomes and found that intentional business networks can...
Last week, the IFC and the Brookings Institute co-hosted “Impact investing: Achieving financial returns while doing good,” a discussion that explored the challenges and potential for impact investing to scale and served as the official rollout of the IFC report, “Creating Impact: The Promise of...
Skopje, North Macedonia Earlier this month, CEED Global Director Peter Righi addressed an audience of North Macedonian private sector and government officials on how entrepreneurship and private investments can propel economic development. Peter was invited by the was invited by the US Embassy in North Macedonia,...
Last week, SEAF Investment Associate Ingrid Chou participated on a Women’s Impact Investing Network (WIIN) Gender Lens Panel at UBS (with whom SEAF has partnered with on Align 17). Ingrid, joined by Beth Bafford from Calvert Impact Capital and Christine Roddy from the Alpha Mundi Foundation,...
A consortium led by SEAF, with partners Investisseurs et Partenaires (www.ietp.com), Conservation International (www.conservation.org) and the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (www.kit.nl), have advanced as finalists for a fund management grant for the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD). The grant, which will be...
Happy International Women’s Day! We wanted to take this opportunity to write about one of core impact themes: women's economic empowerment and gender equality. SEAF has been investing in women-owned and operated businesses for the more than two decades now, and has found meaningful financial and...
By Jamal Abisourour, Vice President at SEAF In a region that is rife with political, social and economic issues, there is a country in the Middle East that continuously succeeds to escape global headlines, due to its ability to keep its issues local and maintain internal cohesion and stability...
By Robert Vodicka III, SEAF Vice President, Business Development Since their inception in 2015, the SDGs have become the standard in impact targets, not only in the impact investment and development industry, but increasingly in commercial aspects of finance and other corporate arenas. We’ve seen the...
SEAF is honored to announce that it has been selected, for the sixth time, as a member of the 2019 class of ImpactAssets 50 Fund Managers. The IA 50 is the first open-source database available to the public providing an index of impact investing firms that...
