NESsT and Kiva are excited to support YAQUA in raising $50,000 in small loans in order to launch a line of healthy, dried fruit snacks that will integrate 1,250+ low-income fruit farmers into YAQUA’s supply chain.
NESsT Connects Entrepreneurs with Investors at SOCAP15
This fall, NESsT hosted several promising social enterprises from South America at the SOCAP15 conference in San Francisco. The conference is the annual gathering of the Social Capital Markets, a network of organizations dedicated to increasing the flow of capital to effect social good.
Social Entrepreneur Profile: Isabel Medem, CEO, X-Runner
Isabel Medem, CEO of X-Runner, a Peruvian waterless sanitation system used in the slums of Lima, is the first social entrepreneur to be interviewed by the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) about the impact of its efforts on the local community. X-Runner has been a member of the NESsT portfolio in Peru since 2014.
