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ABOUT LUNI
Luni Libes is a 30+ year serial entrepreneur, turned mentor, author, and teacher.
Africa Eats is a pan-African investment company focused on feeding Africa. This company is a spin-off of Fledge, a global network of impact-oriented accelerators. Realize Impact, a public charity that makes it easy for anyone to make an impact investment, and The Angel Accelerator, teaching early-stage impact investing.
In addition, Luni was Entrepreneur in Residence and faculty at The Bainbridge Graduate Institute and an Entrepreneur in Residence Emeritus at the University of Washington’s CoMotion center for innovation and impact.
Luni is author of The Next Step series of books and podcasts, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup, The Pinchot Impact Index, a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact, and Berkshire Africa, explaining how to use the lessons of Berkshire Hathaway in tackling hunger and poverty in Africa.
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Luni is a 30+ year serial entrepreneur and investor, (co)founder of seven companies.
His current startups are: Africa Eats, an investment holding company focused on lowering hunger and poverty by building the food/ag supply chain in Africa, spun out of Fledge, a global network of impact-oriented accelerators, where he helps new mission-driven for-profit entrepreneurs from around the world navigate the complexities between idea and customer revenues; and Realize Impact, a 501c3 public charity focused on making it easy for philanthropists to make impact investments.
In addition, Luni is an Entrepreneur in Residence Emeritus at the University of Washington’s CoMotion, the center for innovation and impact and for years taught Entrepreneurship at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
Luni is author of The Next Step series of books and podcasts, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup, The Pinchot Impact Index, a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact, and Berkshire Africa, explaining how to use the lessons of Berkshire Hathaway in tackling hunger and poverty in Africa.
