Roots To Foods Podcast

RootsToFoods
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The RootsToFoods Capital Series. Family offices, foundations, and institutional investors across the United States, Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe, India, and Southeast Asia hold significant pools of private and philanthropic capital, yet much of it does not consistently reach the scalable impact opportunities it was designed to serve. The RootsToFoods Capital Series is not about aspiration. It is about mechanics, decision-making, and how capital intent becomes capital deployment. The conversations convene senior practitioners who are actively shaping how capital flows in practice, from blended finance structuring and philanthropic capital to family office transition, 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. Built for family offices, philanthropic organizations, and institutional investors. The Capital Series is an OviBees Ventures initiative. Founding partner: AV Ventures and ACDI/VOCA. Media Partner: AllAfrica Global Media. Capital Insight Briefs. Each episode of the Capital Series generates a Capital Insight Brief, a practitioner-grade synthesis of the core insight, what is working, what is not, and what it takes to unlock capital deployment in practice. The Briefs are free, downloadable, and designed for practitioners, advisors, foundation programme officers, family office investment teams, and institutional capital professionals who want field-level insight without the full audio episode. Download the latest Capital Insight Briefs at: www.rootstofoods.com. Join our community of practitioners by subscribing to the Linkedin Newsletter Capital Deployment: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 Wave 2 - The Layers of Capital Deployment Episode 9  |  Redesigning the System: While It's Still Running - Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat, Future of Development Cooperation Coalition. Episode 8  |  Mobilizing Capital: The Right Instrument for the Right Corridor - Wasim Tahir, CFA, Senior Advisor, ODI Global. Episode 7  |  How Global Networks Are Rewiring Where Impact Capital Flows - Michael Meehan, Founder, Forum for Impact. Episode 6  |  Catalytic Capital: How Philanthropy Shapes Climate Investment - Randall Kempner, Executive Director, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition. Wave 1 - Where Capital Is Already Moving Episode 5  |  From Capital Platforms to Entrepreneurship Ecosystems-Jeff Hoffman, Chairman of the Board, Global Entrepreneurship Network,Co-founder Priceline. Episode 4  |  Mobilizing African Capital for Africa - Dr. Frannie Léautier, CEO, SouthBridge Investments. Episode 3  |  Philanthropic Capital in Transition - Jennifer Kenning, Co-founder, Align Impact. Episode 2  |  Blended Finance at Scale - Joan Larrea, CEO, Convergence Finance. Episode 1  |  Capital Deployment in Practice - Nathaniel Heller, EVP, Geneva Global. Wave 3 in development.  Learn more at rootstofoods.com.

  1. 2d ago

    Alexia Latortue · Refondre le système, sans l’arrêter

    Comment transformer la coopération au développement pendant qu’elle continue de fonctionner ? Dans ce neuvième épisode de la RootsToFoods Capital Series, Ovidiu Bujorean, PDG d’OviBees Ventures, reçoit Alexia Latortue, responsable du Secrétariat de la Future of Development Cooperation Coalition, coalition coorganisée par l’ACET et le Center for Global Development et soutenue par 20 pays. Alexia Latortue a été secrétaire adjointe au Trésor américain chargée du commerce international et du développement. Elle a aussi travaillé à la BERD, à la Millennium Challenge Corporation et au CGAP, à la Banque mondiale. Dans cet épisode : Pourquoi chaque pays, même le plus pauvre, a un bilan, avec des actifs et des passifs, et pourquoi la coopération devrait partir de là Ce qui fait vraiment bouger les grandes institutions, à partir de la réforme des banques multilatérales de développement Les quatre finalités que la Coalition propose pour la coopération au développement Pourquoi l’aide publique au développement n’est pas morte, et pourquoi il faut l’utiliser exceptionnellement bien Ce qui fonctionne déjà, du Rwanda au rôle nouveau des banques de développement En savoir plus sur la Coalition : https://devcoalition.org 📩 Abonnez-vous à la newsletter LinkedIn Capital Deployment pour recevoir chaque nouvel épisode, le Capital Insight et les analyses de la série : https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 Prochain épisode, le 3 novembre : Kanini Mutooni (DRK Foundation) et le Dr Frank Aswani (African Venture Philanthropy Alliance). La RootsToFoods Capital Series est produite par OviBees Ventures, avec notre partenaire fondateur AV Ventures, filiale d’ACDI/VOCA, et notre partenaire média AllAfrica Global Media. Cet épisode est aussi disponible en anglais : « Redesigning the System: While It’s Still Running ».

    Alexia Latortue · Refondre le système, sans l’arrêter

  2. Oct 20

    Alexia Latortue · Redesigning the System: While It’s Still Running

    Every country has assets and liabilities. What would development cooperation look like if it started there instead of with aid? Ovidiu Bujorean speaks with Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat of the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition and former Assistant Secretary for International Trade and Development at the U.S. Treasury. She has worked inside CGAP at the World Bank, the EBRD, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Treasury. She now runs the Coalition, co-hosted by ACET and the Center for Global Development, which is rethinking how development cooperation works. In this episode: Why institutions are full of inertia, and how individuals inside them can move it. The development balance sheet: starting from a country’s own assets, liabilities and vision rather than the aid flow. The four purposes the Coalition proposes for development cooperation. Why aid is small but precious, and which flows actually drive development. Where change is already visible, from Rwanda’s country-led approach to multilateral development banks acting as enablers. “Because ODA it’s small and because it’s so precious, and because used well it can be so catalytic, we had better use it exceptionally well.” Alexia Latortue, on official development assistance 🎧 Episode 9 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series, produced by OviBees Ventures, with AV Ventures (an ACDI/VOCA affiliate) as founding partner and AllAfrica Global Media as media partner. A French edition follows on October 27, 2026. 📰 Capital Insight brief: rootstofoods.com 📩 Subscribe to the Capital Deployment newsletter on LinkedIn to get every Capital Insight brief as it’s published: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 Next: Episode 10, on November 3, 2026 with Kanini Mutooni, Senior Managing Director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and Dr. Frank Aswani, CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance.

    Alexia Latortue · Redesigning the System: While It’s Still Running

  3. Oct 13

    Mobilizing Capital. The Right Instrument for the Right Corridor.

    How does private capital get from investors to projects in emerging markets, and what stops it on the way? Ovidiu Bujorean speaks with Wasim Tahir, CFA, Senior Advisor at ODI Global and Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development. As a director at British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution, Wasim developed its mobilization strategy and led its first secondary loan sale to an institutional investor. In this episode: What counts as private capital, and why shrinking aid budgets push development finance institutions to bring private investors with them. How BII moved from buy-and-hold to originate-to-share, selling aged loans to recycle capital into new deals. Why blended finance changes the risk of a whole deal, and how guarantees can be cut to fit one specific risk. Why domestic capital markets and national development banks matter more than another new instrument “It’s like saying you’ve got quite a spicy soup and you drop a bit of milk in to cool it down so more people can eat it. Everyone sort of benefits in some ways.” Wasim Tahir, on blended finance. 🎧 Episode 8 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series, produced by OviBees Ventures, with AV Ventures (an ACDI/VOCA affiliate) as founding partner and AllAfrica Global Media as media partner. 📰 Capital Insight brief: rootstofoods.com 📩 Subscribe to the Capital Deployment newsletter on LinkedIn to get every Capital Insight brief: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056

    Mobilizing Capital. The Right Instrument for the Right Corridor.

  4. Sep 22

    How global networks are rewiring where impact capital flows

    Capital corridors aren't built from scratch, they're recognized, then organized. In Episode 7 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series, Michael Meehan, founder of the Forum for Impact and former CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative, talks with host Ovidiu Bujorean about what it takes to build the trusted corridors that let capital actually move: the invite-only network of 1,000+ family offices and institutional investors he's built across nine countries, and why one of its busiest corridors right now runs between the Gulf, Europe and Africa. Produced by OviBees Ventures, with AV Ventures as founding partner, in partnership with AllAfrica Global Media. Subscribe to the Capital Deployment newsletter on LinkedIn for every episode and Capital Insight Brief: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056

    How global networks are rewiring where impact capital flows

  5. Sep 8

    Catalytic Capital: How Philanthropy Shapes Climate Investment

    EP06 - Catalytic Capital: How Philanthropy Shapes Climate Investment Randall Kempner, Executive Director, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition Wave 2 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series opens with the question that has run under every conversation so far: what is the specific form of capital that moves when nothing else will? Our guest built the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) from the ground up, a field-building institution whose purpose was never a financial return but the ecosystem conditions that let profit-making businesses in emerging markets grow. He now leads the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition and has spent more time than almost anyone alive studying what philanthropy can do that nothing else can. In this conversation, Randall Kempner and host Ovidiu Bujorean cover: Why climate philanthropy has never exceeded 2% of total global giving, and why that's an intent problem more than a mechanisms problem. Why a foundation's real leverage isn't the 5% it grants each year. It's the other 95% sitting in its investment portfolio. Philanthropic collaboratives are where the highest-leverage work is happening right now. Groups like Forest & People Climate, Global Methane Hub, and ORCA (ocean resilience) pool resources around specific high-impact solutions.  "Philanthropy should be the first in - period. Its job is to take the risk to move money." - Randall Kempner For the practitioner-level breakdown of this conversation, three takeaways, and the data behind it, subscribe to Capital Deployment, our LinkedIn newsletter for practitioners closing the gap between capital intent and deployment: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056

    Catalytic Capital: How Philanthropy Shapes Climate Investment

  6. Jul 30

    ÉpisConstruire l'écosystème qui absorbe le capital : la perspective de l'entrepreneur, avec Jeff Hoffman

    Cofondateur de Priceline.com et Booking.com, producteur d'un album de jazz ayant remporté un Grammy Award, producteur exécutif d'une émission de télévision ayant remporté un Emmy Award, Président du Global Entrepreneurship Network - actif dans 190 pays - et membre du Conseil consultatif mondial d'OviBees Ventures, Jeff Hoffman clôture la Vague 1 de la RootsToFoods Capital Series. Dans cet épisode, Jeff explique pourquoi la plupart des fondateurs ne sont jamais formés à la mise à l'échelle, ce qui distingue une adéquation produit-marché réelle - trouvée sur le terrain, pas au bureau - d'une adéquation supposée, et pourquoi la qualité la plus prédictive du succès d'un fondateur est sa capacité à rester «coachable ». Il revient aussi sur le programme GIST à Jakarta en 2014, sur l'histoire de Tiket.com, et sur ce qui, douze ans plus tard, reste la même question: comment construire l'écosystème qui absorbe le capital d'impact. L'épisode se termine par la synthèse de la Vague 1 : cinq invités, cinq perspectives sur l'écart de déploiement du capital - et la conclusion de Jeff : la plus grande peur d'un entrepreneur ne devrait pas être de perdre du capital, mais de ne rien faire. Cet épisode est également disponible sur Spotify, Apple Podcasts et les autres plateformes connectées. La RootsToFoods Capital Series est une plateforme bilingue (anglais/français) destinée aux praticiens de la finance du développement, du blended finance et de l'intelligence des corridors de capitaux entre l'Afrique, le Golfe, l'Inde, l'Indonésie et les Amériques — à destination des family offices, des leaders philanthropiques, des entrepreneurs et des investisseurs institutionnels. Diffusée en partenariat avec AllAfrica Global Media. Pour recevoir chaque nouvelle Capital Insight directement sur LinkedIn, abonnez-vous à la newsletter Capital Deployment : https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 La Vague 2 revient en septembre, avec des conversations sur le capital institutionnel africain, la philanthropie indienne et les family offices indonésiens.

    ÉpisConstruire l'écosystème qui absorbe le capital : la perspective de l'entrepreneur, avec Jeff Hoffman

  7. Jul 6

    Building the Ecosystem That Absorbs Capital: The Entrepreneur's Perspective

    Episode 5 — Building the Ecosystem That Absorbs Capital: The Entrepreneur's Perspective To close Wave 1, host Ovidiu Bujorean sits down with Jeff Hoffman - co-founder of Priceline and Booking.com, Chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, and a member of the OviBees Ventures Global Advisory Board. The two go back over a decade, to Jakarta and the GIST Initiative, where a young founder named Natali Ardianto was in the room - his startup Tiket.com went on to become one of Indonesia's leading travel platforms, later acquired by Blibli. This time, the question is different: after four episodes on the capital side, what does it actually take to build ventures that can absorb it? Hoffman brings the founder's view to a series that's mostly looked from the investor's chair. Why product-market fit is found in the field, not the office. Why coachability beats intelligence. Why the "missing middle" is really a communication gap, not a capital gap. Sharp, practical, and a fitting way to close out Wave 1's five-part arc from deployment gap to ecosystem building. Listen now, and subscribe to the Capital Deployment newsletter on LinkedIn for corridor intelligence and key insights from every episode - Wave 2 returns in September 2026: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7454225038356013056/

    Building the Ecosystem That Absorbs Capital: The Entrepreneur's Perspective

  8. Jun 30

    Mobiliser Les Capitaux Africains pour L'Afrique

    Titre: ÉP 04 Mobiliser Les Capitaux Africains pour L'Afrique - Dre Frannie Léautier - RootsToFoods Capital Series (1er épisode en français) Nouveau partenariat: la RootsToFoods Capital Series s'associe à AllAfrica Global Media, la plus grande plateforme d'information du continent, pour diffuser chaque épisode, Capital Insight et newsletter en anglais et en français. Pour marquer cette étape, voici le premier épisode entièrement en français : Dre Frannie Léautier, PDG de SouthBridge Investments et ancienne Directrice des opérations de la TDB, de la Banque mondiale et de la BAD. Au programme: pourquoi l'Afrique n'a pas un problème de capital mais un problème d'acheminement - environ 4 000 milliards de dollars d'épargne institutionnelle africaine restent sous-déployés ; pourquoi les gestionnaires de capital sont rationnels et c'est le système qu'il faut changer; pourquoi la finance mixte doit devenir une industrie, pas un art ; et ce que les données d'investissement ne captent jamais — le risque relationnel, la capacité d'exécution, l'économie politique. «Le plus grand risque pour l'Afrique aujourd'hui n'est pas l'absence de capital -  c'est qu'il ne soit pas déployé assez vite.» Dre Frannie Léautier 🎧 Une production d'OviBees Ventures. Partenaire Médias : AllAfrica Global Media. 📩 Abonnez-vous à notre newsletter LinkedIn Capital Deployment pour recevoir chaque Capital Insight et Capital Signal : https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 📰 Capital Insight complet sur rootstofoods.com

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The RootsToFoods Capital Series. Family offices, foundations, and institutional investors across the United States, Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe, India, and Southeast Asia hold significant pools of private and philanthropic capital, yet much of it does not consistently reach the scalable impact opportunities it was designed to serve. The RootsToFoods Capital Series is not about aspiration. It is about mechanics, decision-making, and how capital intent becomes capital deployment. The conversations convene senior practitioners who are actively shaping how capital flows in practice, from blended finance structuring and philanthropic capital to family office transition, 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. Built for family offices, philanthropic organizations, and institutional investors. The Capital Series is an OviBees Ventures initiative. Founding partner: AV Ventures and ACDI/VOCA. Media Partner: AllAfrica Global Media. Capital Insight Briefs. Each episode of the Capital Series generates a Capital Insight Brief, a practitioner-grade synthesis of the core insight, what is working, what is not, and what it takes to unlock capital deployment in practice. The Briefs are free, downloadable, and designed for practitioners, advisors, foundation programme officers, family office investment teams, and institutional capital professionals who want field-level insight without the full audio episode. Download the latest Capital Insight Briefs at: www.rootstofoods.com. Join our community of practitioners by subscribing to the Linkedin Newsletter Capital Deployment: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/capital-deployment-7454225038356013056 Wave 2 - The Layers of Capital Deployment Episode 9  |  Redesigning the System: While It's Still Running - Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat, Future of Development Cooperation Coalition. Episode 8  |  Mobilizing Capital: The Right Instrument for the Right Corridor - Wasim Tahir, CFA, Senior Advisor, ODI Global. Episode 7  |  How Global Networks Are Rewiring Where Impact Capital Flows - Michael Meehan, Founder, Forum for Impact. Episode 6  |  Catalytic Capital: How Philanthropy Shapes Climate Investment - Randall Kempner, Executive Director, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition. Wave 1 - Where Capital Is Already Moving Episode 5  |  From Capital Platforms to Entrepreneurship Ecosystems-Jeff Hoffman, Chairman of the Board, Global Entrepreneurship Network,Co-founder Priceline. Episode 4  |  Mobilizing African Capital for Africa - Dr. Frannie Léautier, CEO, SouthBridge Investments. Episode 3  |  Philanthropic Capital in Transition - Jennifer Kenning, Co-founder, Align Impact. Episode 2  |  Blended Finance at Scale - Joan Larrea, CEO, Convergence Finance. Episode 1  |  Capital Deployment in Practice - Nathaniel Heller, EVP, Geneva Global. Wave 3 in development.  Learn more at rootstofoods.com.

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  • Creator
    RootsToFoods
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
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