Stiftung Fourfold

After eight highly successful conferences in the past, Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at ISB is back with the 9th Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business. The overall theme of the conference is "Revitalising the Entrepreneurial Spirit of Business Families." We welcome you to be a part of this confluence of family business stakeholders and add value to your efforts and transform your family business! 📅 February 01- 02, 2025   🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAtWa4nw Stay tuned for more updates and insights! Sougata Ray Kavil Ramachandran Sushma Gnvs Astha Mishra Indian School of Business #ThS_CFE #familybusiness #fambiz #Businessfamilies #Entrepreneurship #ISBConference #Legacy #ISB

🇲🇽 In the second half of Fourfold’s visit to Mexico, Lena Gampp and Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni met the Fundamental team Elfid Torres, Corentin Larue, Sarah Linder and Maxime Braun to learn more about the venture studio’s mission to ideate, co-create and support impactful social businesses in areas of employability, agri-food and circularity. Fourfold also met Victoria Lizárraga Peña, the dynamic co-founder and CEO of their portfolio company Ékole, an exciting food brand developed to support small producers. Visiting the region of Nayarit, the Fourfold team engaged farmers and producers benefiting from the development program and whose high-quality produce are transformed into delicious and healthy snack mixes by Ékole. Fundamental, as its work with Ékole shows, plays a key role in Latin America’s impact investing ecosystem. With agility and constant innovation, it builds a crucial pipeline of start-up social ventures to address the region’s challenges of unemployment, inequality and climate change. The Fourfold team left Mexico truly inspired and energized by the talent and dedication of our partners!

The Fourfold team Lena Gampp and Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni kicked off their #Mexico field visits in November with the elea Latin America Hub Tina Ruchti and María José Sámano and met one of their newest impact ventures Rutopía .    Rutopia’s mission is to regenerate nature and culture through fair and sustainable tourism, offering fully customized and authentic trips around Mexico. With its CEO Emiliano Iturriaga and experienced guide Garuda, the group explored #Xochimilco’s famous canals and chinampas, the man-made islets forged in ancient times to grow flowers and crops. Thanks to a local association that acts as a Rutopia host, they saw cultivation and conservation practices being revived in the area and helped prepare a hearty lunch of freshly harvested produce. 🥕   Mexico and the LatAm region face significant environmental and social pressures. Innovative business models like Rutopia may be part of the growing number of sustainable solutions to meet these challenges.

Fourfold CEO Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni joins a session on financing the transition of agri-food systems at this week’s Building Bridges conference in Geneva. More details below! ⬇️

🌟 "Philanthropic capital for impact investing" was a conversation that needed to happen. Thankfully, a good number of impact professionals agreed! 🙌 Some headlines: 📌 Social ventures carry risk for any investor, so grants might not "de-risk" an investment but they can play a catalytic role to unlock other capital. 📌 Let's normalize grant funders making exits and start with that objective in mind. 📌 Social ventures need grants. The challenge is in using them strategically, both from the perspective of the foundation and the entrepreneur. On behalf of Fourfold, Lena Gampp and Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni, we thank Amanda Turner Ege, Elena Torresani and the elea Team for the excellent teamwork on our co-hosted Roundtable and the guests who joined us in Bilbao. It was a privilege to cap ImpactEurope #ImpactWeek2024 with all of you.

🙏 Thank you to the Fundamental team for the warm Mexican welcome. It was inspiring to see the growth of Ékole as a healthy food brand championing small producers. 🥭

🌟 Innovation Group Proteins4Future: Driving Change Together! 🌱 We’re proud of this engaged community fostering innovation and collaboration across the ecosystem of plant-based and other animal-free solutions. A big THANK YOU to our inspiring speakers and organizations for their visionary contributions: Dr. Claudia Müller, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences Mario Arcari, Berner Fachhochschule BFH Fabian Abiusi, ETH Zürich Patrick Marxer, dasPure The evolution of plant-based alternatives is accelerating, and with our Innovation Group we are shaping the future through transformative discussions and meaningful connections. #networkingeventseries powered by Innosuisse stimulate new approaches and solutions for impact and transformation in a neutral & confidential setting. Join under https://lnkd.in/e-Pt__kA our upcoming Innovation Groups on: ✨Bioconversion - looking forward to be hosted by Food Brewer 🌱Future Proof Farming in FRI (Fondation Rurale Interjurassienne) 🖥️Digitalization at Sitem MedTech HUB #futurefoods #innovation #community #improvement

📢 Our partner venture Ékole is hiring a Director of Supply Chain and Impact. This is an exciting role for someone based in Mexico who wants to grow an innovative food brand and enable small producers. 👩🌾 More details in the post below. Fundamental

Are you a student of food systems, chemistry, and/or nutrition passionate about improving human and planetary health? Ever wondered about what's in food? Or how we know? Thinking about what comes next in your career? Check out what our expert panelists have to say about these questions and more in the Food EDU Webinar, Unlocking the Future of Food: Exploring Foodomics Career Pathways. https://lnkd.in/gyTu6qku In this webinar, you'll learn about the intersecting disciplines discovering and applying comprehensive food composition data, in fields ranging from food safety to precision nutrition. Big thanks to our panelists: Martin Kussmann, PhD Lisa Offringa, PhD Endale Amare (PhD) CHARLES APPREY, PhD Jessica Prenni Food EDU is facilitated by the American Heart Association and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT as co-secretariats of The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and is supported by the The Rockefeller Foundation and the Stiftung Fourfold.

Join us at the 9th Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business to hear from Thomas Schmidheiny, Chairman and Founder of Spectrum Value Management Ltd. Schmidheiny, with a strong focus on philanthropy, education, and entrepreneurship, will share invaluable insights from his extensive experience in family business leadership and governance. 🗓️ February 1-2, 2025 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAtWa4nw Sougata Ray Kavil Ramachandran Sushma Gnvs Nupur Pavan Bang Valerie Remoquillo-Jenni Indian School of Business