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Finding XY and the art of making small businesses bankable
A Ugandan advisory firm helped agribusinesses raise $1.74 million, then discovered why its own success fee was a hard sell. Its next move says plenty about the gap between having a business and being able to finance it.
The Credit Union That Put Saskatchewan's Money Back to Work - Then Bet Its Local Edge Could Survive a Merger
Conexus built its edge by treating banking deposits as Saskatchewan development capital. Now a three-way merger has made the co-op bigger, richer and harder to keep personal - which is exactly why its experiment matters.
The Man Who Turned Corn Fields Into a $1.85 Billion Asset Class
Perry Vieth left a $7 billion bond desk to buy dirt. Eighteen years later, corn and soybean acres he leases to family farmers are worth $1.85 billion - and Wall Street finally wants in.
Kurt Tsuo
Kurt Tsuo is the Chief Business Officer of Varaha, a Gurugram-based carbon removal company building high-integrity credits with smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa. A Harvard-trained economist who spent seven years in agriculture before it was a climate headline, he has built business lines at the Gates Foundation, Farmer's Business Network, ProducePay, and Breakthrough Energy, and co-founded the carbon storage startup Graphyte. His through-line is unglamorous and stubborn: make the economics of fixing carbon work for the people who actually grow food.