Acumen Fund is a nonprofit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty, combining small amounts of philanthropic capital with large doses of business acumen to build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. (Learn more about Acumen Fund.)
Omer Ismail (Harvard) & Meghana Narayan (Harvard)
Acumen Fund
Omer researched and helped assess innovative, potentially high-impact investments for the Housing Portfolio, and Meghana worked on building the metrics platform to critically analyze and communicate the financial and social impact of Acumen’s investments. They are shown with Yasmina Zaidman, Acumen’s Water Portfolio Manager (L). (Summer 2006)