Acumen has invested in Viva Finance, a fintech business that offers affordable loans to improve the financial health of underserved Americans who are otherwise forced to rely on expensive lending products The Challenge: Exploitative Lenders In 2019, financially underserved consumers in the U.S. — encompassing consumers who are unbanked or underbanked, credit challenged, or who … Continued
Ethiopia’s chicken industry was almost non-existent when Dave Ellis and his co-founders embarked on a bold adventure to start Flow Equity in 2010. Today the company distributes more than 25 million chickens a year in Ethiopia.
New Acumen report, “Resilient. Farmers.” provides investors and agricultural businesses with recommendations to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, build their resilience, and increase their incomes. Salana has been a farmer for 18 years, long enough to know that the weather did not use to be like this: “the climate is hot… The temperature … Continued
Earlier this month, Analynn Salvato rode 530 miles from New York City to the Canadian border. In her day job, Analynn is a project manager for an equity research firm. On this eight-day journey, however, she rode for a different kind of equity, the kind that Acumen promotes everyday by investing in solutions that uplift … Continued
En 30 minutos, una cosecha prometedora puede convertirse en una cosecha fallida y los medios para ganarse la vida o de alimentar a tu familia pueden desaparecer. Para los agricultores, esto no es un riesgo abstracto, es la realidad del cambio climático, una amenaza diaria que puede golpear en cualquier momento con consecuencias devastadoras. Un … Continued
Tyler Youngblood has spent the better part of a decade reimagining and — against massive odds — building a fair, inclusive, and sustainable coffee business.
In 30 minutes, a promising harvest can turn to crop failure. The ability to make a living or feed your family can disappear. For farmers, this isn’t an abstract risk, it is the reality of climate change, a daily threat that can strike any time with devastating consequences.
Boulder Care is a health care company that conforms neither to the accepted practice of 28-day rehabilitation centers nor the requirement of place-based centers that expect individuals to show up daily for treatment.