elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
elea.org Direct investor
elea is a Swiss philanthropic foundation that invests in impact ventures in emerging economies, focusing on sectors like agriculture, last-mile retail, employable skills, and climate resilience. It provides capital and strategic support to ventures that aim to create social impact for people living in absolute poverty.
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization is an investor headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2006. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in agricultural value chains, last-mile retail and services, employable skills and climate and livelihoods.
“elea invests philanthropic capital in and provides strategic support to entrepreneurially led ventures that create lasting social impact by giving people living in absolute poverty access to employment, markets, and value chains.”
— elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Invests in
- Africa, Asia, Latin America
- Sectors
- agricultural value chains, last-mile retail and services, employable skills, climate and livelihoods
- Founded
- 2006
Where this comes from
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- https://www.elea.org/en/home-enname, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, status
- https://www.elea.org/en/investing/why-philanthropic-investingis_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.elea.org/en/where-does-elea-investinvests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
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