Valéria is a Project Manager at the BoP Innovation Center (BoPInc), social enterprise supporting start-ups, SMEs, and multinationals in co-creating business models and activities that include the people in the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) as consumers, producers, and entrepreneurs. She works on co-developing marketing & distribution strategies in food- and agribusiness on West African markets. Access to capital being a key challenge for many of BoPInc's partners, BoPInc is continuously researching this topic with partners such as iBAN.