Gender Lens Investing

How inclusive innovation, technology and equity-based capital allocation systems can help close the gender financing gap — Written by Efe Braimah, Head of Nigeria Advisory and Member of Group Council, and GLI Program Director This piece was prepared in collaboration with Kuramo Capital Management. There are over 30 million women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) in Sub- Saharan Africa, accounting for approximately 60% of MSMEs (Micro…

Spotlight Q&A with CrossBoundary Women for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month — To honor International Women’s Day 2023 and Women’s History Month, we requested viewpoints from our colleagues worldwide on how they navigate career paths as a woman and promote #EmbraceEquity within and beyond the workplace. Efe Braimah is CrossBoundary’s Head of Nigeria Advisory and a member of our Group Council. She…

Lae Canosa discusses the need and the nuances of Gender Lens Investing and how it is imperative to the future of women entrepreneurs. Investing in the entrepreneurial and social impact space has come a long way over the past few years. Still, there’s much that is overlooked when it comes…

A little over five years ago, Darian Rodriguez Heyman and I came together with a vision to unlock gender-smart capital at scale by bringing together people across the entire investment spectrum. In January, GenderSmart, the organisation we went on to build, will merge with our long-term partners at the 2X…

In October, Elias Habbar-Baylac (MBA 23’), SAIF Student Advisory Board Member & Fellow of the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL), was invited to speak and facilitate sessions at the Global Gender-Smart Investing Summit in London, England. This summit is the world’s largest gathering for impact investors, investment banks…

By Suzanne Biegel and Sana Kapadia In October, GenderSmart brought together over 325 asset owners, institutional investors, fund managers, gender experts, and investment intermediaries, from over 40 countries, for our Global Investing Summit. It was the first time since 2018 that our community had gathered in the same room together…

Investing in climate adaptation and mitigation is both a matter of justice and smart business. …

“The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly.” — Baha’i writings These are words that Laina lives by and in this interview, she shares with us the challenges…

Public perception of gender equality issues runs in a repetitive cycle. We’ve all seen it. A scandal breaks out, or a study discovers yet another damaging disparity. Think pieces are written, hands are wrung, and companies promise to do better. Then the public’s attention moves on until another cycle starts…