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Luni Libes
Founder of Africa Trees
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Overview
Luni Libes is a highly accomplished entrepreneur and impact investor based in Bainbridge Island, Washington. With a diverse background in founding and managing impactful ventures like Africa Eats and Fledge, Libes excels in mentoring, advising, and investing in startups across various sectors, including Impact, AgTech, and ClimateTech/CleanTech.
Libes' notable career highlights include founding and leading Fledge, a successful accelerator program for social impact startups, and serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Africa Eats, showcasing a strong track record of supporting and nurturing innovative ventures with a focus on sustainability and social entrepreneurship.
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - Current
Africa Eats is an investment company lowering hunger and poverty across Africa by investing in profitable, for-profit SMEs building the food/ag supply chain. A spin-off of Fledge, the portfolio has been growing at at a 50%+ CAGR over the last decade, pulling millions of subsistence farmers out of poverty while simultaneously growing value for investors faster than a VC or PE fund. africaeats.com
Africa Eats is a pan-African holding company consisting of high-growth, native food, and agriculture companies.
Raised $825,550.00 from Ground Squirrel Ventures.
Co-Founder
2023
Africa Trees invests in for-profit agroforestry companies restoring land in Africa. An investment holding company similar to Africa Eats, with a portfolio of dozens of profitable, growing, mission-driven SMEs. africatrees.ltd
Founder & Managing Director
2012
Fledge is a business accelerator network for mission-driven, impactful, for-profit companies. fledge.co
Managing Director
2013
Realize Impact turns philanthropy into impact investments for donor advised funds (DAFs), family foundations, or for new philanthropic gifts. Details at realizeimpact.org.
Facilititator & Teaching others to replicate
2019
The Angel Accelerator is a hands-on, online program teaching individuals (and families) how to invest in early stage and growing impactful companies. theAngelAccelerator.com
The Angel Accelerator is a private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in providing accelerator program for start up companies.
Family Office
2014
Managing my family's single family office
Co-Founder
2016 - 2022
investorflow.org provides the world’s first online service that connects investors to like-minded investors. Both those they already know and those they’ve yet to meet. To start with, we’re bringing this service to impact investors, who today are scattered around the world and are already investing globally, which makes the process of finding like-minded investors even more challenging. http://investorflow.org
Advisor
2012 - 2020
Impact Hub Seattle is part of the international co-op of co-working spaces focused on social entrepreneurs. http://impacthubseattle.com
Entrepreneur In Residence & Faculty
2011 - 2019
As an EIR at Presidio Graduate School, I mentor/advise the MBA students as they learn Entrepreneurship, plus I act as a liaison between the school and the business community to foster internships and other "real world" interactions for the students. As faculty, I teach "Social Entrepreneurship" at the "Hybrid" program on Bainbridge Island, WA. It's never too early to "give back", http://www.geekwire.com/2011/giving-paying. http://presidio.edu (formerly pinchot.edu, formerly bgi.edu)
Member
2015 - 2017
Member of the Seattle chapter of Toniic, a global organization of impact investors