We believe that critical intervention is necessary to mitigate the outsized impact of key economic and environmental challenges. At 500 Global, we look to catalyze sustainable innovation across food systems, clean energy, environmental sustainability, and climate resilience, as well as companies developing sustainable business models, by equipping founders with the resources they need to address local challenges and to scale globally.
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144
portfolio companies
27
countries, including rise markets like Mexico, Egypt and India
$55M+
invested
of our portfolio aligns with at least one of the UNSDGs
Sustainable innovation is critical for addressing challenges both locally and globally. At 500 Global, we leverage our history of investing in emerging and nascent markets to support founders who are not only building locally, but developing solutions that are transferable to international markets.
We believe that sustainability is a lens through which a company can be built, not a sector in and of its own. We back founders and companies around the world and across industries that demonstrate this approach to solve complex challenges. We find that opportunities exist across agriculture, energy, logistics and mobility, as well as finance, built environment and more.
We believe that sustainability is complementary to commercial viability. It’s our view that profitability is an essential component of building companies that can drive sustainable and long term positive impact.
Our commitment is to support founders who build solutions that scale across borders. Together, we're creating infrastructure for entrepreneurial ecosystems to develop into resilient economies.
We understand how Sustainable Innovation is reshaping industries and creating unprecedented opportunities. These experts share their thoughts on Sustainable Innovation and its impact across sectors.
Dr. Alaa Murabit
Managing Partner, Sustainable Growth
Dr. Alaa Murabit is Managing Partner, Sustainable Growth at 500 Global, as well as a global expert in health, sustainable development, inclusive security, and girls' education. At age 21, Alaa founded The Voice of Libyan Women, working on inclusive security, peace processes, and faith-supported peacebuilding alongside President Jimmy Carter, Leymah Gbowee, and others. By the age of 25, she had successfully negotiated and passed numerous resolutions through the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly, including Resolutions 2122 (2013), 2242 (2015), 2467 (2019), and 2493 (2019).
Alaa's leadership was instrumental in shaping United Nations General Assembly Resolution 70/1 (2015), better known as the Sustainable Development Goals, including ensuring the inclusion of Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. The Goals have transformed the global agenda, driving policies across government and business, shifting public and private sector budgets in 193 countries, and impacting billions of people. As a result, Alaa was appointed a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Advocate by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Antonio Guterres, speaking at the first-ever 'SDG Moment' during the United Nations General Assembly. In 2016, she was appointed UN High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment, and Economic Growth.
Partner, 500 Global
Mareme is a Partner at 500 Global. Previously she was the lead for Market Strategy, Africa, where she was responsible for leading the market development and expansion of the firm into Africa and the neighboring regions, with a focus on increasing AUM and ecosystem development in emerging countries.
She has also been recognized by Forbes magazine and highlighted as a Forbes Afrique 30 Under 30 nominee.
Amal Enan is a Partner at 500 Global, a multi stage venture fund investing in the world’s potential. Amal advises the American University in Cairo as the Chief Investment Officer of the Endowment and was the former Senior Advisor on COP27 to the World Resources Institute. Amal founded The Lotus Collective, an organization supporting access to finance for women and climate solutions for sustainable & inclusive growth.
At 500 Global, Amal leads the firm’s early stage investments in Egypt in high growth sectors including healthtech, fintech and Saas in addition to managing the wider Egypt programs and building the team. Amal was the former Executive Director of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund “EAEF”.
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