CEI Ventures

We’re Backing Africa’s Most Underserved Founders. Ennovate Ventures is a tech venture factory, investing in ambitious founders who are using their innovations to improve lives, create jobs, and accelerate sustainable development. 30+ Partners in the last 5 years. 1,287 Founders Supported, with over 300 being female founders. $1.1M deployed to founders, with $3.2M follow-on raised. 1.2M Lives Reached and 3,000+ Jobs Created by our startups.

Led by veteran impact investor Edward Dugger III and serial pioneer Julianne Zimmerman, Reinventure Capital is a high-impact, high-return venture practice. Our investment thesis:There prevail in plain sight existing and emerging networks of innovative entrepreneurs, many of whom are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and/or womxn of all identities, overlooked by mainstream investors. They are leading scalable for-profit businesses with demonstrated commercial traction and social and environmental impact, yet starved of capital to grow. Providing this untapped pool with expansion-stage capital will produce strong, non-concessionary returns for shareholders and intentional, measurable benefits for stakeholders. We pursue this thesis by:Cultivating a more vibrant and equitable ecosystem. Reaching out to womxn and people of color, engaging our networks to connect with innovative entrepreneurs building scalable businesses and investors investing for better. Targeting innovators who are radically changing their segments, building businesses that deliver profitable and scalable interventions to persistent impediments to present-day and future well-being. Selecting entrepreneurs who are in fragmented industries, at the forefront of one or more unfolding shifts, and growing profitably; as a result, they are positioned to become #1 or #2 in their market segment, improve EBITDA by 30-40%, and self-fund reinvestment. Collaborating to drive impact at every stage of our involvement. Each investment we make is a pact with the founders to achieve impact we agree on together. We seek to create close alignment before we invest, encode that alignment in deal structure and terms, and maintain alignment by keeping a clear-eyed focus on our shared commitment.

We are an anti-disciplinary group of thinkers, founders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners who believe that market forces can power great ideas to drastically increase economic opportunity. We believe that market forces can power great ideas to drastically expand economic opportunity. Guided by the best evidence and leading research on what drives economic mobility, we invest in people and ideas that can succeed in and transform those markets. We are active partners to talented, mission-driven entrepreneurs. Our entrepreneurs receive seed funding, space, support, and access to a world-class team of advisors and researchers who provide strategic advice on how to build a highly successful business and maximize social impact. WHY WE DO IT There are stark gaps in opportunity in America. One-third of black men without a high school education are in prison on any given day. The median earnings gap between blacks and whites is the same as it was in 1950s. Life expectancy today for blacks is what is was for whites in the 1980s. The racial achievement gap is the same now as it was in the 1980s. We invest in entrepreneurs and ideas that have the potential to close these gaps and greatly increase opportunity in America.

We want to build together an innovative, sustainable and inclusive economy through the leverage of private investment conveyed with medium to long term payback prospects. What we believe inWealth can generate more wealth, if invested in responsible entrepreneurs: The accountability of the business that acts in the best interests of all the stakeholders who are drawn to it, develops value over the medium and long terms, and turns out to be a superior investment. Sustainable innovation: We give access to innovative investments that will shape our future economy: we give priority to those who have already embarked on a path of medium-long term economic, social and environmental sustainability, also to reduce risk and acquire greater prospective value Simplicity, Clarity and Transparency: We utilize technology to streamline procedures and provide a seamless, delightful user experience. Even the most complicated documents are made simple to read and comprehend in order to promote wise and informed investment. Through the online platform and special meetings set up by our Investment Managers, all the pertinent information concerning the potential investment is made available. Empowerment and Training: Offering everyone the resources they need to learn about the industry and its quirks will make venture capital investments more accessible. As a result, education is a key pillar for fostering growth in people as well as the ecosystem as a whole. We are a Benefit Company Since its inception, Doorway has decided to be a Benefit Company, that is, a company that places the goals of profit alongside those of value creation and common benefit. How? By conveying venture capital in the service of the birth and development of innovative and sustainable enterprises that can bring positive effects to society. Every day Doorway strives to create real impact by contributing to some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through its business activities. SDG 4: Quality education - Through the financial education activities carried out during the year and the training initiatives for investors and founders. SDG 5: Gender equality - Doorway promotes the culture of innovation and wants to support successful founders, especially of the female gender, who usually find it more difficult to raise capital. SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth - Through fundraising, Doorway supports those companies that want to grow and expand in Italy and abroad, creating wealth and jobs, especially for young people. Often the investment rounds are used precisely to structure teams and hire new resources. SDG 9: Innovation - Doorway sees the innovation ecosystem as a key driver of economic growth and wants to help it develop in Italy and Europe. We are signatories of the PRI By subscribing to the PRI, the Principles of Responsible Investment, Doorway confirms its ongoing focus on sustainability issues, being part of the international network of more than 4,000 signatory management companies and investors, managing more than $121 trillion in AUM. The initiative, launched in 2006 in New York by the United Nations, aims to establish links between investment and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and help signatories include these issues in their investment and shareholding decisions.

Celtis Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with a broad investment mandate. We work closely with our portfolio companies and our investor community to create long-term value. Our team thrives on collaboration, entrepreneurship, and clear, authentic communication.

This is expected to create significant financial and social returns. Aisiki focuses on women and youth led companies, as well as companies with a developmental impact stemming from the belief that this represents the greatest potential for job creation and economic development. The name Aisiki means “prosperity” in the Yoruba language. It was inspired by the strength, diligence and resilience commonly demonstrated by women across the continent from all walks of life as they constantly seek opportunities to uplift, provide for and build their homes, families, communities and individual capabilities. As an impact fund, Aisiki believes that a holistic model, which recognises the requirement to address all stakeholders when structuring investment opportunities, is a critical element of successful investing in developing economies. A key differentiator for Aisiki Impact Fund when compared to tradition debt and equity funds will be the strategic role the fund will play to place social impact at the core of everything we do.