• Capacity Development Provider

Engineers Without Borders Canada

EWB Ventures is a seed-stage investment vehicle backed by Engineers Without Borders Canada. We are dedicated to supporting early-stage, highly scalable, innovative, for-profit, social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We make tailored, long-term investments of up to $100,000 in ventures with high potential to drive systemic change for the benefit of the underserved in new, untested ways.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Fellowships
    • Talent Placement

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Building HR capacity
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Financial management
    • Ideation
    • Due diligence
    • Building M&E capacity
    • Investor matchmaking
    • We recruit, train and embed skilled fellows into each of our investees in Ghana.

  • Investment Instruments

    • Equity
    • Quasi-Equity

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Invest Directly

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Financial services

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Advocacy
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Ethical sourcing
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Franchising

  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Access to financial services

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • FinTech
    • Software as a service (SaaS)
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