To unlock the potential of food resilience on the African continent, we need three paramount resources:
Significant pools of private, philanthropic, and institutional capital across the United States, Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, do not consistently reach the scalable impact opportunities they are designed to serve. This is not a series about aspiration. It is about mechanics, decision-making, and what it takes to close the gap between intent and deployment. And answer the key question of how capital intent can become capital deployment. Each conversation convenes a senior practitioner who is actively shaping how capital flows in practice, from blended finance structuring and family office transition to domestic capital architecture and entrepreneurship pipeline development. Together, the episodes form a practitioner-grade map of where capital is already moving, what enables it, and what holds it back.
The Capital Series is an OviBees Ventures initiative.Founding partners: AV Ventures and ACDI/VOCA
OviBees Ventures is a capital strategy and emerging markets advisory firm working with philanthropic foundations, family offices, and institutional investors to design and execute capital deployment strategies in environments where structural barriers—not capital scarcity—are the primary constraint. Our work spans Africa, Eastern Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, with a focus on blended finance structuring, pipeline development, ecosystem readiness, and the conditions that determine whether capital moves or stalls. The RootsToFoods Capital Series is our practitioner platform — a structured, multi-wave conversation series with leaders across philanthropy, family offices, and institutional capital, focused on how capital flows in practice. Wave 1 (May 2026) features Nathaniel Heller (Geneva Global), Joan Larrea (Convergence), Jennifer Kenning (Align Impact), Dr. Frannie Léautier (SouthBridge Investments), and Jeff Hoffman (Global Entrepreneurship Network). Each episode is paired with a Capital Insight Brief — a concise, practitioner-grade synthesis distributed to a global network of capital allocators and advisors.
