Frank Tobé

Investor | Board Member

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
Mar 2024
In a saturated social enterprise field that’s too focused on rewarding scale, speed, and brand-new solutions, it’s refreshing to encounter a purposeful, value-driven initiative that is building on existing innovations to tackle the chronic problem of waste management in Africa. Mr. Green Africa is a Nairobi-based recycling start-up whose vision is to change people’s perceptions towards. Waste equals value. This small company incorporates the concept of shared value—creating economic value while addressing social and environmental challenges—into its core, by harnessing the untapped potential of an existing informal waste management industry.
Investor
Jan 2021
Safiyo enables organisations with intelligent consumer insights from emerging markets around the world, all done remotely and through the power of artificial intelligence. As an automated data platform we bring you closer to your consumers using digital-led data collection methods and smart insights. Our technology enables businesses to get the answers they need to make decisions. We provide stats based on the audience and reach requirements you define, enabling you to: ● Understand Informal Retail Data. ● Measure Media Consumption Across TV, Radio & Billboards. ● Study Occasion Based Consumption. ● Data to Understand Online and Offline Shopping Behavior. We pride ourselves on helping you make quick data-driven decisions with on-demand and transparent insights. Find out more about Safiyo, get in touch with us at https://safiyo.ai/contact/
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Investor
Jun 2020
Wij zijn de Nederlandse vermogensbeheerder voor de toekomst. De wereld veranderd razendsnel en jouw geld speelt daarin een belangrijke rol. Investeer je in oplossingen of problemen? De wereld van gisteren of de wereld van morgen? En hoe weet je waarom?
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2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
In a saturated social enterprise field that’s too focused on rewarding scale, speed, and brand-new solutions, it’s refreshing to encounter a purposeful, value-driven initiative that is building on existing innovations to tackle the chronic problem of waste management in Africa. Mr. Green Africa is a Nairobi-based recycling start-up whose vision is to change people’s perceptions towards. Waste equals value. This small company incorporates the concept of shared value—creating economic value while addressing social and environmental challenges—into its core, by harnessing the untapped potential of an existing informal waste management industry.
Advisory Board Member
Mar 2024
Utopia Capital Management is a Global Management Company expanding access to the innovation economy to deliver a better world. Our mission is to create the most inclusive, impactful and prosperous platform of investment vehicles in emerging markets. We believe a thriving, accessible global innovation economy creates distributed prosperity and progress for all.
2022
Founder
Jan 2022
The best way to map, report and improve sustainability performance.
2021
Ambassador
Jan 2021
We connect and guide wealth owners to invest their capital consciously for a better world. We are a peer-to-peer community of families, philanthropists, individual investors, and foundations Your money matters We believe in the power of money as a force for good. That is why we promote impact investing. You can invest successfully in businesses, directly or through funds, that have a purpose beyond profit. Many companies are stepping up their efforts to do better business - socially and environmentally while remaining profitable. More and more entrepreneurs choose to be in business to help solve the biggest challenges our planet and humanity are facing. What do we do? PYM spurs, educates and guides wealth owners and their families to invest in what matters most to them, our planet and future generations. We bring together wealth owners, advisors and other impact investment networks in a safe environment. We are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Investor
Jan 2021
Safiyo enables organisations with intelligent consumer insights from emerging markets around the world, all done remotely and through the power of artificial intelligence. As an automated data platform we bring you closer to your consumers using digital-led data collection methods and smart insights. Our technology enables businesses to get the answers they need to make decisions. We provide stats based on the audience and reach requirements you define, enabling you to: ● Understand Informal Retail Data. ● Measure Media Consumption Across TV, Radio & Billboards. ● Study Occasion Based Consumption. ● Data to Understand Online and Offline Shopping Behavior. We pride ourselves on helping you make quick data-driven decisions with on-demand and transparent insights. Find out more about Safiyo, get in touch with us at https://safiyo.ai/contact/
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