Steve Beck

Learn about the work that Bridge does to transform lives. Bridge is a community school network, made up of four unique programmes, partnering with communities, teachers and parents to deliver life changing #education for primary/pre-primary children. 📍NG 🌍📍KE 🌍UG 🌍📍AP 🌍

We are a women-led, people-first ethical jewelry brand and manufacturing platform built to connect artisans in Kenya with the global marketplace.  We work towards reducing inequality and poverty through the creation of high-quality jobs with dignity and purpose.  We believe in using business as a force for good to balance profit with purpose. Financial inclusion and economic sovereignty are the keys to lasting impact and change. 

Combining high-scale operations with digital intelligence, Komaza is revolutionizing African forestry - unlocking the potential for small-scale farmers to serve booming wood markets. We’re currently planting commercial-grade forests at a rate of over 1 million trees per year, expanding our farmer-base by 5,000+ – and we’re growing fast. To date, we’ve planted over 7 million total trees with 22,000 farmers, making us Kenya’s largest industrial tree planter. We hold the only sustainable blueprint for meeting Africa’s $30B wood supply crisis. Smallholder farms offer nearly limitless land, and can establish a hectare of trees for far less than big plantations. We have been recognized with numerous awards and investments, including The Climate Policy Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Forbes, and Novastar Ventures.

An alliance of organizations that harness a circular economy approach to empower cities in building carbon-negative systems that offer safe sanitation. We also work to build regenerative food systems through the production of feeds, fertilizers, and fuels from upcycled sanitation and other residual organic waste.

The Paradigm Project was created to positively impact poverty by using business as a tool for social good. We're a social enterprise that works with donors and investors to create scalable business models that deliver social, economic and environmental value within developing world communities. We’re pioneering the way poverty is addressed by bringing conscientious people like you together to deliver real impact, long-term sustainability and an opportunity for people to lift themselves out of poverty instead of trying to do it for them.

Learn about the work that Bridge does to transform lives. Bridge is a community school network, made up of four unique programmes, partnering with communities, teachers and parents to deliver life changing #education for primary/pre-primary children. 📍NG 🌍📍KE 🌍UG 🌍📍AP 🌍

We are a women-led, people-first ethical jewelry brand and manufacturing platform built to connect artisans in Kenya with the global marketplace.  We work towards reducing inequality and poverty through the creation of high-quality jobs with dignity and purpose.  We believe in using business as a force for good to balance profit with purpose. Financial inclusion and economic sovereignty are the keys to lasting impact and change. 

Combining high-scale operations with digital intelligence, Komaza is revolutionizing African forestry - unlocking the potential for small-scale farmers to serve booming wood markets. We’re currently planting commercial-grade forests at a rate of over 1 million trees per year, expanding our farmer-base by 5,000+ – and we’re growing fast. To date, we’ve planted over 7 million total trees with 22,000 farmers, making us Kenya’s largest industrial tree planter. We hold the only sustainable blueprint for meeting Africa’s $30B wood supply crisis. Smallholder farms offer nearly limitless land, and can establish a hectare of trees for far less than big plantations. We have been recognized with numerous awards and investments, including The Climate Policy Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Forbes, and Novastar Ventures.

Novastar Ventures is one of the first and largest VCs investing in Africa. Since 2014, Novastar has partnered with the bold entrepreneurs transforming markets and sectors and creating financial, social and environmental for people and planet - for good. Novastar’s work and team encompass both Novastar Ventures Limited and its investment advisors in Nairobi and Lagos.