Who we are

EMpact is a venture studio serving critical value chains in frontier markets by addressing chronic issues afflicting these markets and affecting our planet. EMpact drives change through the incubation of talent, then creating and incubating businesses that address the needs of key players in these value chains with focus on agriculture. The final step in this venture studio model is to extend pre-seed equity funding to the budding startups, handhold them through the initial phase of their growth journey, and then - over time - hand them over to later stage investors.

EMpact is a collaborative effort among Corporate, Funding, Capacity Building and Technology partners and is led by its Co-Founders Sami Lahoud and Prateek Shrivastava. Between the two of them, Sami and Prateek bring a wealth of corporate, philanthropic and entrepreneurship experience covering public private partnerships, development, impact investing, financial inclusion, digital transformation, technological innovation, corporate affairs and governance.