Shell Foundation
shellfoundation.org Direct investor
Shell Foundation is an independent philanthropic foundation that supports clean energy solutions to increase incomes and reduce emissions for smallholder farmers, transporters, and micro-entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia. It fosters innovation, scales partnerships, and mobilizes catalytic finance.
Shell Foundation is an investor headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2000. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in clean energy, energy access, agriculture and transportation.
“Shell Foundation supports clean energy solutions that raise incomes while cutting emissions for a smallholder farmer, a transporter and a micro-entrepreneur in Africa and Asia.”
— Shell Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Africa, Asia
- Sectors
- clean energy, energy access, agriculture, transportation, micro-enterprise
- Founded
- 2000
Team, as Shell Foundation publishes it
- Tom Baird Trustee
- Vinita Bali Trustee
- Cederic Cremers Trustee
- Gail Klintworth Chair of the Trustees
- Parminder Kohli Trustee
- Tim Livett Trustee
- Jack Ngare Trustee
- Funke Opeke Trustee
- Paul Simpson, OBE Trustee
- Jonathan Berman Chief Executive Officer
- Richard Gomes Chief Programme Officer
- Juliette Keeley Chief Impact Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on shellfoundation.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Shell Foundation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://shellfoundation.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://shellfoundation.org/about-shellfoundation/hq_country, hq_city, founded
- https://shellfoundation.org/our-team/people
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