Marcus is a Senior Advisor to Optimizer Foundation and provides support across the portfolio. He is currently a partner and director at KawiSafi Ventures where he leads the team across investments, operations, and portfolio management.
Abdourahmane is an investment professional with more than 7 years’ experience in impact investing and innovative financing in agriculture, global health and education. He provides advisory support to Optimizer Foundation, specifically with regards to financial returns analysis and investment pricing strategy
Peter provides advisory support to Optimizer Foundation, especially as regards sector views and insights on education and health, but also with general advice on impact and strategy. Peter is an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School
Carl Johan Hedstrom (CJ) is a Senior Advisor to Optimizer Foundation and provides support across their portfolio on product and technology. CJ is currently the Chief Product Officer at AxPay, and serves as an advisor, board member and angel investor to a handful of tech startups. He has over 15 years of experience in IT/Telecoms space.
Catharina is a board member of Optimizer Foundation. She is a lawyer and heads the legal team at Debt Capital Markets at one of the major Nordic banks Handelsbanken
Alexandra Rosberg Hinxman is a board member of Optimizer Foundation. She works as governmental advisor specialising in international relations and
With a background in Business and Tourism, and many years of experience in business and office management, Bianca brings an unprecendented level of organisation and structure to our daily operations
30 August 2018 – We are excited to continue another year as Senior Partner to Acumen and to work closely with them on their Education Fund and their goal to transform affordable education across India and Pakistan Our investment in Acumen
We are deepening our East African presence through hiring Investment Manager Emily Durfee, to cover the East African region. Emily will be based out of Nairobi, Kenya, and brings with her a wealth of experience from supporting scale up of social businesses across Africa, as well as India. She most recently completed her MBA at Said Business School, Oxford. You …
We are supporting ARMMAN’s scale-up to reach ~900,000 women in Delhi slums
We are excited to share our Impact Report for 2017, highlighting the key achievements, and the impact we have created in our markets during 2017. Happy reading! Click here to read the Impact Report
Today, Optimizer Foundation is talking about impact investing at Nordnet live – the largest event in the Nordics on business and finance. You will be able to watch the event here at 17.00 CET. Stay tuned!
In September 2017 we invested in Arifu, a Kenyan based digital platform providing high quality educational content to low income people, including youth
We are excited to announce the official launch of Optimizer Foundation. Read about us in Swedish business news paper Dagens industri (Di), and stay tuned for more news about us!
WHAT WE DO Optimizer Foundation invests in early-stage social ventures. We search for scalable, and system-changing solutions, improving the lives of children and youth. The organizations we support have a specific focus on education and health. We work closely with our investees, providing funding as well as business advisory support, to help our investees to scale. We pull from skills …
Improving educational outcomes by training teachers and school leaders
Offering affordable and high quality healthcare in Kenya
Offering supply chain services supporting micro-businesses in the Kenyan apparel sector
Supporting SMEs through mobile based financial literacy training and loans
Supporting entrepreneurs through access to business training, markets and capital
