BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt promotes responsible leadership and inspires leaders from around the world to work for a peaceful, fair, sustainable future. Guided by the key concepts of governance, innovation, and intersectoral associations, they focus on Sustainable Development Goals 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), 10 (Reducing Inequality), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). The 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda constitute the reference framework of their venture philanthropy and impact investments.

We are a network of social investors (deploying grants, debt or equity) who are collaborating to increase the flow of Human, Financial and Intellectual capital into African social investments for greater Impact.

<p>Greenstick Consulting offers freelance consulting services to those actors looking to establish or enhance inclusive business partnerships. These partnerships are characterized by unfamiliarity and uncertainty, but also a drive “to do the right thing”. Greenstick Consulting assists:</p>

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<li>Commercial (agri-) businesses with the design and implementation of a suitable business model that integrates low-income communities into their value chain in a fair and equitable way;</li>
<li>Commercial (agri-) businesses with identifying funding partners and other actors that can contribute to develop their inclusive business segment;</li>
<li>NGOs with the design and implementation of donor-funded smallholder support programmes;</li>
<li>Farmer organizations with the development of commercial and alternative marketing channels;</li>
<li>Knowledge institutes and industry bodies with detailed research and publication.</li>
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<p>Greenstick Consulting primarily focuses on the agribusiness and food sector and specializes in South Africa, with additional services in southern Africa. The aim of Greenstick Consulting is to build respectful, inclusive partnerships that enhance the livelihoods of rural communities through commercial activities.</p>

CropIn is a leading full-stack agri-tech​ organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enable various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations.
Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 265 crops and 3,500 crop varieties in 30 countries. The SaaS solutions offered by CropIn are crop and location agnostic, and are available on web and mobile devices.

About SmartRisk:
SmartRisk is a predictive and prescriptive solution for risk monitoring, mitigation and forecasting intelligence. The AI and machine learning based platform uses satellite imagery and other data sets to detects cropping patterns and predicts the future of the crop, thus highlighting the associated risk and opportunity for agri-stakeholders.

Sattva is a consulting firm in Bangalore, India that works with social organisations and corporations to help them maximize their social impact along with economic value. It helps organisations design and execute inclusive models that are innovative, economically viable and add equitable value to all the different stakeholders involved in the chain.

Adenia Partners is a private capital management firm investing in African businesses. Since 2003, Adenia has deployed investments through four separate funds. Adenia supports investees with time, expertise, networks and equity investments at any phase of a company’s development, be it during start-up, expansion, or at maturity.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group finances projects, programmes and studies in the areas of agriculture, health, education, public utilities, transport and telecommunications. AfDB manages the African Development Fund (ADF) providing concessional funding for projects and programmes and technical assistance for studies and capacity-building activities.

The Artha Impact team has been working since 2007 as the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital, which is a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust. Through this initiative, they have been running a series of programs designed to invest, catalyze and convene around the promise of supporting meaningful business interventions for impact in India. Today they hold a robust portfolio of direct early/growth stage investments and a small handful of impact funds in the country. Their sectors of focus include (but have not been limited to) agriculture, healthcare and livelihoods.

<p>Ashburton Investments manages different funds including the Africa Equity Opportunities Fund focused on undervalued listed African equities across various sectors. Ashburton's India Equity Opportunities Fund provides equity or equity-related investments for Indian companies and companies traded in other geographic markets but with a significant proportion of growth of their business in India.</p>

<p>Asoko Insight provides superior data on Sub-Saharan African companies, public and private, to help organisations identify leads, research investment opportunities and monitor corporate developments. Asoko collects and updates company information through a variety of in-country sources. </p>