Jim Villanueva
Managing Director @ Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
Santa Barbara, United States
Jim Villanueva is a Series A investor at Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund in Santa Barbara focused on Agriculture and Energy. Jim Villanueva - Investment Director, Managing Director, Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund @ Global Partnerships
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Jim Villanueva invests in
Stages Jim Villanueva invests in
Countries Jim Villanueva invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $2.1M–$6.3M
- Series B
- $8.5M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 2 (33%)
- Energy 1 (17%)
- Travel 1 (17%)
- Tourism 1 (17%)
- Logistics 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Series B 2 (33%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
Country
- Kenya 1 (17%)
- Uganda 1 (17%)
- Zambia 1 (17%)
- United States 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income. | $8.5M / Series B / Nov 08, 2023 | ||
| Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio that aims to launch three or four start-ups per year focused on enhancing travel and tourism. Purple Elephant Ventures was founded in 2020 by Ben Peterson, Jan van De Willebois & Mikul Shah. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 07, 2022 | ||
| Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety. | $10M / Series B / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety. | $6.3M / Series A / Oct 05, 2020 | ||
| Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income. | $2.1M / Series A / Oct 04, 2020 | ||
| Treasure8 is a regenerative food systems company—a social enterprise working to transform the global food waste ecosystem and apply it to solving food insecurity. Co-founded by serial food tech entrepreneur Timothy Childs, the company is a wellspring of new food products, ingredients, and patented technologies. Treasure8’s multi-faceted approach totransforming the global food waste ecosystem is focused on three tactics: 1) Development and commercialization of patented technologies to turn excess and imperfect in-field produce into natural, long-lasting, delicious food products and ingredients that retain inherent micronutrients. 2) Incubation of patent-pending technologies to turn production by-products (e.g., juicing leftovers) into both viable food products and ingredients 3) Implementation of technologies to create potent agricultural inputs and energy from food wasteTreasure8 currently operates in multiple business verticals, including the development of signature food brands (for itself and others), sales and licensing of patented technology, and the planned production of new ingredients for the food and nutraceutical markets. | Seed / Jan 01, 2014 |
Co-Investors
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund is a new, early-stage impact-led fund investing in social enterprises that expand opportunity for people living in poverty in East Africa.The SVF will invest in approximately 12 high-potential, early-stage social enterprises focused on education, energy, health, rural livelihoods, sanitationand water. The fund will finance these enterprises through seed-stage convertible debt and early-stage equity, and include active Board engagement. The goal of the SVF is to positively impact 5+ million lives over the life of the fund.
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund Contacts
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FAQ
What does Jim Villanueva invest in?
Jim Villanueva invests primarily in Agriculture, Energy and Travel startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jim Villanueva invest in?
Jim Villanueva typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$6.3M at Series A and $8.5M–$10M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jim Villanueva's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jim Villanueva took part in.
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When did Jim Villanueva last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jim Villanueva closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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