GEXSI

Our organisation explained

GEXSI was founded in 2001 at the World Economic Forum.  The original goal of GEXSI was to set up an exchange for social investments in low-income regions around the world.  The original aim of the organisation was to identify outstanding social enterprises and match investment proposals with mainly US- and Europe-based impact investors.

Unfortunately, this idea did not have the impact as the founding members of GEXSI envisaged.  No deals were made, and the notion of an exchange for social investments as initially developed by GEXSI was reviewed in light of this feedback.

Once this review has taken place, GEXSI revised its focus to concentrate on providing social entrepreneurs with financial and advisory support for early-stage development while providing social investors with strategic guidance on how best to deploy their money to achieve the maximum positive social and environmental benefits.

Based on our vision of working towards a world where new entrepreneurial ideas to fight poverty, flourish, we have developed two entities united under the GEXSI banner to advance our work: the GEXSI Charity, our not-for-profit organisation, and GEXSI Capital Partners, our project development and advisory services organisation.