Shell Foundation

#ShellFoundation finds and fosters early-stage innovation that increases incomes while cutting emissions for a smallholder farmer, a micro-entrepreneur and a transporter. We scale innovations by partnering with established businesses operating in #Africa and #Asia and already reaching millions of customers. We finance scale and innovation with capital commitments that catalyse concessional and commercial finance. Across our programmes, we co-design interventions with gender intentionality embedded every step of the way. Shell Foundation offers over two decades’ experience in scaling energy technology that improves the lives of people earning less than a net living wage. Our experience, in-market knowledge and approach allows us to: 🔹 Work with agility through our partnerships, co-designing appropriate models to achieve mutually agreed outcomes  🔹 Be customer-focused through intervention design, backed up by consumer research and human impact analysis  🔹 Take catalytic risk through pilot programmes and inclusive financial solutions We want to hear from aligned organisations who believe profound change can come from clean energy solutions that raise incomes while cutting emissions. To learn more and to get in touch, visit 🔗 : https://lnkd.in/ey8EMmBZ #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #Scale #Innovation #Finance #Partnerships #ImpactInvesting #CleanEnergy #Energy #CommericalFinance #Gender #Technology

Congratulations Francis N. and the rest of the Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh team on winning the 2024 The Earthshot Prize ! It follows last year's Earthshot prize awarded to Shell Foundation partner S4S Technologies . I had the privilege to learn about the benefits of Keep IT Cool’s technology from Beatrice, a microentrepreneur who is a fish parts wholesaler in Nairobi, #Kenya when I visited Beatrice in her shop this year. She taught me how distributed solar works best for her, and the dozens of other women benefiting from that business. Multiplied by millions of small businesses, building the cold chain is deep impact at scale. Shell Foundation, with co-funding from Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, is proud to support Keep IT Cool, Beatrice and the millions of business owners like her. Learn more about Keep IT Cool and Shell Foundation's partnership: https://lnkd.in/e-ZsV4ev #ShellFoundation #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #EarthShotPrize #EarthshotCapeTown #KeepITCool #ReduceFoodWaste #ImpactInvesting #ColdStorage

Congratulations to Keep IT Cool | Deliver while still fresh on winning the 2024 The Earthshot Prize in the ‘Build a Waste-Free World’ category. Innovation in the areas of technology and business models is critical to delivering an empowering energy transition. By extending the shelf life of produce and reducing spoilage, Keep IT Cool increases incomes and reduces emissions caused by food waste. This is the second year running that a #ShellFoundation portfolio company has been recognised in the category, following S4S Technologies award in 2023. Both KIC and S4S were supported through our Catalysing Agriculture programme with the UK government, which continues to support the most impactful solutions to scale and reach millions of under-served customers. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8vnREJ6 #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #EarthShotPrize #EarthshotCapeTown #KeepITCool #ReduceFoodWaste #ImpactInvesting #ColdStorage #Innovation Transforming Energy Access Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

“Shell Foundation takes the lead on venture building and market building and have great expertise and market knowledge.  They work directly with ventures – early stage and mid-stage – helping them to get to the point where they can access commercial capital or scale capital” Steven Hunt, Senior Energy Innovation Advisor, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. #ShellFoundation has been proud to partner with the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office since 2012. This partnership has been built on a strong foundation of mutual collaboration, a shared strategic objective to drive the clean energy transition while raising incomes and an ability to co-fund impactful programmes. The partnership currently supports two jointly funded programmes under the FCDO’s Research and Evidence Directorate: Transforming Energy Access (TEA) and Catalysing Agriculture by Scaling Energy Ecosystems (CASEE). Both programmes are part of the Ayrton Fund, a UK Government commitment to invest up to £1 billion in Research and Development for clean energy technologies and business models in developing countries.  Learn more about this unique partnership: https://lnkd.in/eq5fwhyT #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Energy #ImpactInvesting #Partnership #Innovation

Amplifying impact through strategic alignments is core to #ShellFoundation’s mission. We are willing to be bold, be agile in our partnerships and innovate to move at pace and deliver solutions at scale. Since 2023, Shell Foundation has brokered $900 million of catalytic capital commitments across public and private sectors from leading international donors, development finance institutions, and impact asset managers. Our partnerships encourage the incubation of new ideas, demonstrate the viability of market-based solutions and support widespread replication and greater collective impact. Discover how we foster innovation, scale partnerships and mobilise finance: https://lnkd.in/evYse9aK #EnergyAccess #EnergyTransition #ImpactInvesting #CleanEnergy #CatalyticCapital #Finance #Innovation #Partnership #Africa #Asia

At #ShellFoundation, we are working towards supporting an energy transition that works for everyone. We support clean energy solutions that raise incomes while cutting emissions for smallholder farmers, transporters and micro-entrepreneurs in #Africa and #Asia. We de-risk new technologies and markets and drive innovation towards scale. We seek partnership with proven industry leaders to scale commercial energy solutions and co-design interventions that have gender intentionality embedded. Learn more about who we are and our work: www.shellfoundation.org #EnergyAccess #ImpactInvesting #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #EMobility #Entrepreneurs

"From a mission perspective and innovation perspective, there’s a lot of synergies between what #ShellFoundation does and what GreenPod Labs does. Shell Foundation is looking at increasing the economics of smallholder farmers and equally looking at minimising greenhouse gas emissions. That’s exactly what our technology does” said Deepak Rajmohan, Founder/CEO of GreenPod Labs. GreenPod Lab’s technology, which leverages ambient active packaging, provides the ability to activate the natural defenses of fruits and vegetables. This innovation extends shelf life at ambient temperatures, thus eliminating the need for costly cold storage and potentially revolutionising the preservation of produce in resource-limited settings. Deepak accepted the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Price on behalf of GreenPod Labs during an event during #ClimateWeekNYC. The Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize, launched by Factor[e] Ventures and supported by Shell Foundation, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, ISF Advisors , MicroSave Consulting (MSC), and AndMore Associates, LLC, aims to discover scalable and practical solutions to this critical issue. Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/gb8pcnAA #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateWeek #Agriculture #Farmers #PostHarvestLoss #BioTech #SmallholderFarmers #ImpactInvesting

📢 Announcing the winner of the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize 🏆 !    At the Cultivating Innovation at the Energy and Agriculture Nexus Event during #ClimateWeekNYC, Factor[e] Ventures, in collaboration with #ShellFoundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, announced that GreenPod Labs has been awarded the $50,000 Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize!    GreenPod Labs is a pioneering biotech firm, and the award recognises their active packaging technology designed to mitigate post-harvest losses in fruits and vegetables. This active packaging technology extends shelf life at ambient temperatures, thus eliminating the need for costly cold storage and potentially revolutionising the preservation of fresh produce in resource-limited settings. The technology adds significant value for smallholder farmers by helping them minimise post-harvest losses during storage and transport at ambient temperatures.    Globally, one-third of food is lost or wasted, causing substantial economic losses and worsening greenhouse gas emissions. This is a particular challenge for smallholder farmers in emerging markets, who bear a disproportionate share of the burden. Yet, new breakthrough technologies designed to combat post-harvest losses hold promise for both boosting these farmers’ incomes and significantly reducing global food waste.    The Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize, launched by Factor[e] Ventures Ventures and supported by Shell Foundation, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through our Catalysing Agriculture by Scaling Energy Ecosystems (CASEE) partnership, ISF Advisors , MicroSave Consulting (MSC), and AndMore Associates, LLC, aims to discover scalable and practical solutions to this critical issue. Learn more about Shell Foundation's work: www.shellfoundation.org #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #ClimateWeek #Agriculture #Farmers #PostHarvestLoss #BioTech #SmallholderFarmers #ImpactInvesting

Shell Foundation’s Head of Financial Solutions, Nicholas Jones, joined Jonathan Cedar, CEO and Co-Founder at BioLite, James C., Director, Carbon Credits at Boomitra, Daniel Sadik, Senior Vice President at Carbon Solutions Group, Amrita Bhandari, Chief of Insights and Strategy at Acumen, and Amy Cortese, Editorial Director at ImpactAlpha for the “Credit where it is due: How carbon markets finance social impact” event during #ClimateWeekNYC.  Carbon finance applications can enhance food security, boost incomes and help adaptation to climate change as well as increasing access to clean cooking solutions or diesel-replacing solar irrigation pumps. Nick highlighted the that one of #ShellFoundation's focuses is on mobilising capital for early-stage innovations. By testing innovative financing mechanisms that have ability to help unlock carbon revenues, we can help catalyse and enhance the ability of social enterprises to increase the affordability of assets for customers we seek to serve. Learn more about our work: https://lnkd.in/ernn2t-X #ImpactInvesting #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess #CarbonMarkets #CarbonFinance

Shell Foundation is proud to be a programme partner at SEMAFOR’s “The Next 3 Billion” Summit during #ClimateWeekNYC.     Our CEO, Jonathan Berman, will be speaking with Justin B. Smith at 10:10am ET for a Partner Session. Jonathan’s session will focus on #ShellFoundation’s mission of raising incomes while cutting emissions for the people we serve in #Africa and #Asia through #cleanenergy solutions.     Watch the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/eMqJjD7D   Visit our website to learn more about our work: www.shellfoundation.org    #ImpactInvesting #UNGA79 #UNGA #BlendedFinance #ClimateFinance #Investment #EnergyTransition #EnergyAccess