CrossBoundary Associate, Nathan Kelly and Partner, Thomas Flahive attended SOCAP18 in San Francisco in October to share our thoughts on the future of blended finance. Thanks to Social Capital Markets for bringing together like minds across the industry dedicated to using the transformational power of capital to effect global good.
The Gender Smart Investing Summit ended with private investors, public investors, companies and NGOs committing to invest in decreasing the gender gap. Thank you Suzanne Biegel, Founder, Catalyst at Large for creating this space. At CrossBoundary, we are inspired and committed to being gender smart. We were represented by Soline Miniere, our Associate Principal and Tunuka Gray our Senior Associate.
We were pleased to co-host an event on Blended Finance at our Nairobi office last week, with Convergence Blended Finance, the global network for blended finance. We could not have done it without our co-host, Ladé Araba, Africa Region Representative at Convergence Blended Finance. It was great to see the platform they are building, learn about the latest developments and...
In September, Charles Eberly our Senior Investment Associate, moderated two panels on investment opportunities in the energy sector at the 2nd Annual Passage to Prosperity Afghanistan Investment Summit in Mumbai, IN. Eng. Minister of Energy & Water Afghanistan, The Director General of the CPA, and the CEOs of Da Afghanistan, Jaguar Overseas Ltd, Dynamic Vision, and 77 Construction Company participated.
Our Mali Team through the Mali Investment Facilitation Platform (MIFP) a USAID project, hosted ANDE, in Bamako for a round table on the sub-regions entrepreneurial ecosystem. MIFP has demonstrated that local capital providers and foreign investors are willing to invest in deserving projects in Mali given appropriate support in identifying and structuring these transactions
Gabriel Davies and Lucy Shaw in our Energy Access team are excited to be back in Nigeria for the second Innovation Lab Workshop, to identify new ways for minigrid companies to grow their revenues and reduce costs. The Innovation Lab will launch its first Nigerian prototype appliance finance, this month.
Jake Cusack, our Co-Managing Partner and Frederik Benzel, Principal at our Johannesburg Office teamed up with Pangaea Securities, Zambia to facilitate the investment matchmaking session for agribusinesses and capital providers at the Southern African Trade Seminar in Livingston, Zambia. The Seminar was sponsored by USAID, INTL FCStone and the USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub.