The New Hybrid Strategy Western Investors are Using For Africa: VC + Philanthropy With Luni Libes

In this insightful episode, Sendra Dorcé sits down with Luni Libes, the visionary co-founder and CEO of Africa Eats, a holding company that nurtures and accelerates the growth of early-stage agribusinesses across Africa. Luni shares his journey as he deals with the challenges faced by agribusinesses in Africa. He discusses his 30+ year journey as a serial entrepreneur, turned mentor, author, and teacher.
Africa Eats is a pan-African investment company focused on feeding Africa. His company is a spin-off of Fledge, a global network of impact-oriented accelerators. Their approach is as public charity that makes it easy for anyone to make an impact investment. Africa Eats employs to drive sustainable growth and development in the continent’s agricultural sector. He helps us to understand the core mission of Africa Eats and the strategies to utilize as a start-up when launching and the common obstacles small businesses are up against when raising capital. We analyze the unique model and structure the organization uses as a holding company and how it differentiates itself from traditional venture capital models.
Luni is author of The Next Step series of books, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup, The Pinchot Impact Index, a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact, and Berkshire Africa, explaining how to use the lessons of Berkshire Hathaway in tackling hunger and poverty in Africa.
Africa Eats has a unique structure, blending the best parts of a venture capital fund, a business accelerator, and Berkshire Hathaway to create an investment company optimized to support fast-growing, mission-driven, for-profit African companies. Join us as we explore the impact of empowering local entrepreneurs and the future of the agribusinesses in Africa.