Yesterday, Frederik Benzel, Principal at CrossBoundary Group, sat on the Farming to Feed the Future Pitch Fest Panel at The Mandela Washington Fellowship Conference. Six entrepreneurs from across the continent pitched their ideas on how to farm to feed the future for potential funding.
Today, Lucy Shaw, Associate, was on a panel on Innovation and Technology Development, at the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network 7th Annual Conference. She discussed the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab, Sub-Saharan Africa's first R&D facility, focusing exclusively on testing business model innovation in the sector.
Today, CrossBoundary in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, officially launched the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab. The Lab, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, is the first R&D Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa that focuses exclusively on testing business model innovations in the mini-grid sector - to provide more power, to more people, at less cost.
Melekot Abate, Head of Advisory East Africa and Kathleen Jean-Pierre, Associate, hosted members of the London Business School's Emerging Markets Club at our Nairobi Offices.
Partner Tom Flahive and Associate Abdoulaye Toure published an article with Brookings Institution on "Why French should become the new lingua franca of Africa private equity." Flahive and Toure discuss how French West Africa is emerging as an "attractive destination for private equity investors on the continent."
Charles Eberly, Senior Associate, recently spoke at the Southern African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SAVCA) conference on how CrossBoundary's investment facilitation model is catalyzing private equity investment to make a strong return and lasting impact in Africa.
Charles Eberly, Senior Associate, was recently featured as a panelist at the GET-FiT Zambia Launch, discussing how CrossBoundary, under the Southern Africa Energy Program, is supporting renewable energy investment in Southern Africa.