# Yunus Social Business

> Yunus Social Business is a VC fund in Berlin backing EdTech and GreenTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/yunus-social-business
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Yunus_SB
- Website: http://www.yunussb.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YunusSocialBusiness

Yunus Social Business is a VC fund in Berlin focused on EdTech and GreenTech. Our Mission: We have been founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus to spread the success of social business and lessons learned from Bangladesh to other countries around the world. Local teams in 7 countries run accelerator and incubator programs for social entrepreneurs to enhance their social business ideas. We provide seedcapital and post-financing support for the most promising entrepreneurs to launch and scale their social businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 2 | 17% |
| GreenTech | 2 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| Higher Education | 2 | 17% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 17% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 42% |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Grant | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 25% |
| Colombia | 2 | 17% |
| Kenya | 1 | 8% |
| Brazil | 1 | 8% |
| Tunisia | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bharat Doshi | Country Partner | 0 | — |
| Daniel Nowack | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Emil Lamprecht | Head of Accelerator | 0 | — |
| Saskia Bruysten | Co-Founder & CEO | 1 | — |
| Srinivas TR | Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MeuChapa | MeuChapa is a logtech digital platform that provides workforce solutions for logistics and supply chains. | $200.5K | Debt Financing | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Protalento | Accelerated online post secondary programs, co-developed with employers, combining top bootcamps with proprietary life skills training. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Deevabits Green Energy | Deevabits Green Energy is a for-profit social enterprise headquartered in Kenya that distributes and finances essential products and services to rural customers through a team of commission-based village social entrepreneurs (VSEs). The VSEs form a robust distribution channel for improving energy access to underserved rural areas. At the same time,we finance customers through the pay-as-you-go model which enables the poorest households to own solar lighting products by paying for them in small installments hence removing the barrier for upfront payment. The company's vision is an Africa where everyone has equitable access to basic goods and services. | $300K | Debt Financing | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Finaktiva | Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities. | $5M | Debt Financing | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Farm Trust | Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain. | $14.1K | Grant | Jan 02, 2021 |  |
| S4S Technologies | S4S Technologies is a food preservation company that invents new food processing machines and sells the machines to farmers or uses them at own facility to produce the best quality processed food.The high quality processed food is supplied to a wide range of clients. With technology at its core, S4S Technologies works with many partnerorganizations to create a sustainable supply of processed food products. | $132.5K | Debt Financing | May 14, 2020 |  |
| Virohan | Virohan is an EdTech company that offers healthcare vocational training to students to build a career in the healthcare industry. Virohan uses technology and talent to fix this socio-economic problem so that industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium.Virohan is re-engineering vocational training by aggregating the highlyfragmented vocational training industry and standardizing their operations from mobilization, training to placements. Virohan's tech stack's plug-and-play installation at training centers assures demand-driven training is provided to students in an affordable, accessible, and standardized manner to ensure youth achieve progressive livelihoods, the industry receives a trained workforce, and training centers have higher revenues and profitability.Virohan’s target audience is marginalized, low-income youth in the age group of 16-24, with about 50% of them being females. Virohan provides courses in Healthcare covering Allied Health, Corporate Training, and Refresher training for hospital employees in an omnichannel training model.The courses offered emphasize on development of core technical skills, language abilities, and life skills in the student through gamified blended learning delivered by its facilitators in classrooms. All programs include long internships at hospitals for hands-on practice of the skills acquired. It is a fee-based model and in order to encourage young people to join, financial linkages are provided with easy installment-based payback options after a job is secured by the young person.Virohan's tech stack predicts job demand, mobilizes youth as per that demand, trains them, and connects them with jobs. In essence, this increases viable penetration, lowering operational costs and improving efficiency across operations (mobilization, financing, training, certification, placement) through standardization. | $450K | Debt Financing | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| BURN | BURN's core business is the design, local manufacture, and distribution of fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world. Their modern manufacturing facility outside of Nairobi makes one stove per minute and is the largest of its kind on the continent. |  |  | Sep 27, 2019 |  |
| SMV Green Solutions | SMV Green Solutions is a social enterprise that works to provide safe, clean and affordable mobility in the last mile transportation. | $208K | Seed | Aug 31, 2019 |  |
| Farm Trust | Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain. | $8K | Grant | Jun 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Bancóldex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banc%C3%B3ldex) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fondation Botnar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondationbotnar) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercy Corps Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercy-corps-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Yunus Social Business invest in?

Yunus Social Business invests primarily in EdTech, GreenTech and E-Commerce startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Yunus Social Business?

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### Who are the partners at Yunus Social Business?

The team at Yunus Social Business includes Bharat Doshi (Country Partner), Daniel Nowack (Managing Director) and Emil Lamprecht (Head of Accelerator), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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