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The Power of Entrepreneurs to Fulfill People’s Needs in Underserved Communities
SEAF CEO Bert van der Vaart tells the story of Solaric, a solar company in Bangladesh, a country where approximately 40% of the population is still off the electricity grid. Solaric's off-grid, rural populations clean and affordable solar power to help raise their standard of...
September 25, 2019
SEAF’s Jan Cherim on the Financing of Agribusiness SMEs in Developing Markets
Our first post focuses on Jan Cherim, SEAF’s European Hub Managing Director for Business Development, based in Amsterdam. Jan has been involved in emerging and frontier markets finance for decades, frequently involving agribusinesses. Jan has been working in recent months with various organizations dedicated to...
September 12, 2019
Introducing SEAF Series “Impact Through Agribusiness”
We are pleased to announce our new series on the business of agriculture, from production to retail and everything in between...
September 10, 2019
The FT reports that Investment Vehicles Focused on Women are Growing
“The business of business should not be about money,” writes Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop. “It should be about responsibility.” This was how a report in Financial Times began this past week. The article, which discussed the increase in the number of ESG exchange-traded...
August 05, 2019
SEAF at the RIIA Hoffman Finance Forum – Dialogue on Finance for Social and Environmental Enterprises
The RIIA Hoffman Finance Forum was held last week at Chatham House in London, the UK’s oldest and most well-established think tank, and SEAF Managing Director Jan Cherim participated in the roundtable on Moving from Niche to Mainstream: Finance for Social and Environmental Enterprises. The...
July 03, 2019
