The Beyond Capital Podcast
by Beyond Capital Fund
Tune into the Beyond Capital Podcast to discover how the C-Suite thinks about social impact as a business grows. Learn about how social values and causes integrate into a company's operations, product, culture - and ultimately - its success. Eva and Ed have built, scaled and sold companies worth millions. We are active early-stage investors with more than 20 current investments. We sit on private and public-company boards, and we believe strongly in business as a force for good. From the CEO of a company serving two and a half million healthy school meals a week to one of the world’s first and most successful recycling entrepreneurs, in each episode our candid conversations show how and why profit can be married with purpose. Inspiring leaders will articulate their philosophies and share the mark their business will leave on the world. You will be inspired by these stories to explore your own possibilities for social impact because money and meaning can co-exist!
Episodes
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What Do We Mean by Beyond Capital Support?
Founder friendly vs. founder fair — many venture capital firms tout the former, but Beyond Capital Ventures embraces the latter approach for a well-rounded, fully immersive VC strategy. In this week’s episode, join our hosts Eva Yazhari and Nicholas Java as we explore all of the ways in which BCV...
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How the BCV Debt Opportunities Fund Is Meeting Demand in Today’s Market
The capital gap — the difference between the financing that small to medium enterprises (SMEs) need to grow and operate efficiently and the amount of capital that they can actually access — is often the difference between innovation and sustainability and failure, especially in emerging markets.…
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What Is the Role of Debt for Early-Stage Companies in Emerging Markets?
Beyond Capital Ventures is a pioneer in the field of debt financing for startups in India and Africa. The concept of credit is nothing new, but for startups in emerging markets, it’s been often out of reach as banking systems are too risk averse. With its debt opportunities fund, BCV is…
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How Does Beyond Capital Ventures Invest in Climate Initiatives in Emerging Markets?
Join our hosts Eva Yazhari and Nicholas Java of Beyond Capital Ventures as they take us inside the BCV portfolio, in particular the firm’s climate-focused companies, which are finding innovative and sustainable solutions, primarily in the agriculture and mobility subsectors. Stay tuned for some...
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What Are the Investable Opportunities in Financial Services?
In this first episode of 2025, our hosts Eva Yazhari and Nicholas Java of Beyond Capital Ventures take us inside the BCV portfolio, in particular the firm’s innovative and impactful fintech companies, which make up close to 30% of our business. To usher in the new year, Eva and Nicholas also take...
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What Is Conscious Investing?
Conscious investing — what does it mean, really? And how is it different from impact investing or philanthropy? In this informative episode of the Beyond Capital Ventures Podcast, our hosts, BCV Managing Partner Eva Yazahri and Partner Nicholas Java, tackle the term and why it serves as our…
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Meet the BCV Portco Companies Revolutionizing Healthcare in Emerging Markets
Healthcare is a crucial sector within Beyond Capital Ventures’ investment outlook, comprising more than 40% of our portfolio. Access to quality healthcare remains a challenge in much of the world, markedly so in emerging markets such as India and East Africa, where we concentrate our efforts. In...
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How BCV Is Helping India Meet its Economic Moment
In a follow-up to our previous podcast episode about why Beyond Capital Ventures invests in Africa, our Managing Partner Eva Yazhari and Partner Nicholas Java discuss our firm’s dual focus on Indian startups and their importance in not only emerging markets but in the global economy as a whole.…
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The Power and the Potential of Investing in Africa
In this week’s episode of the BCV Podcast, we tackle a question our Partners hear often: Why invest in Africa, and, specifically, East Africa? An easy — but incomplete — answer: The world is becoming more African. It’s true: Africa has the fastest growing, youngest population of any continent…
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What Does it Mean to Be a Multi-Asset Firm?
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Beyond Capital Ventures Podcast! Join BCV Managing Partner Eva Yazhari and Partner Nicholas Java as they delve into the firm’s debt capital opportunities and why this type of investment is crucial in supporting startups in emerging markets such as India and Africa. Eva...
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A Deep Dive Into Beyond Capital Ventures
It’s time for episode 3 of the BCV Podcast and time to take a deeper look into what makes Beyond Capital Ventures truly one of a kind in its industry. As Partners in the firm, Eva and Nicholas offer their unique perspectives on the singular ways BCV is cultivating impact-driven companies in...
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Meet Co-Host and BCV Partner Nicholas Java
In episode two of the BCV Podcast, we get to know Co-Host and Beyond Capital Ventures Partner Nicholas Java better … his time spent serving in the United States Army, what sparked his interest in venture capital in emerging markets, and where he continues to find his purpose in his challenging...
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The BCV Podcast: Rewriting a Playbook for Capitalism
Welcome to the BCV Podcast! Beyond Capital Ventures Managing Partner Eva Yazhari and Partner Nicholas Java are here to bring you the stories of a venture capital firm focused on more than money. Through our weekly conversations, we strive to inspire you to think differently about what investments...
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Conscious Leaders Marrying Profit with Purpose: Eva Yazhari + Ed Stevens
Where has the time gone? It’s already the finale of Season 4 of the Beyond Capital Podcast! For our sendoff to a brilliant season, our Co-Hosts Eva Yazhari and Ed Stevens are interviewing each other about everything from their current personal and professional projects to their thoughts on the 12...
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Harnessing Finance to Build a More Peaceful World: Scott Weber President and CEO, Peaceinvest
Peace and invest aren’t two words you necessarily hear together very often, but Scott Weber is here to change that. The President and CEO of Peaceinvest, a Geneva-based global investment firm committed to transforming finance into a force for positive change, Scott started his career at the…
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Paving the Way for a Greener Future, One Motorbike at a Time: Josh Whale Founder and CEO, Ampersand
From starting his career as an intellectual property lawyer working in China and witnessing technologies such as lithium batteries, solar panels, and electric vehicles take off, to seeing an opportunity to implement them in emerging markets, Josh Whale has found himself at the pulse of…
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Leveraging Philanthropy and Capital Markets for Good: Alix Lebec Founder and CEO, LEBEC
Alix Lebec is a founding member of WaterEquity, where she helped build a global asset manager focused on water, women, and sanitation in emerging markets. She also previously worked at the World Bank, Clinton Global Initiative, and Water.org, where she mobilized $260 million in capital. In 2020,...
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Creating a Better Cereal While Giving Back: Parker Brook Founder & CEO, Lovebird Foods
Parker Brook is a veteran of Big Food, helping bring an array of household-name brands to countless consumers around the world. While working for one of the world’s largest food conglomerates, he hoped to have the opportunity to create change from within; however, it became apparent that profit...
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The BCV Podcast Coming Soon!
Welcome to the BCV podcast brought to you by Beyond Capital Ventures in our Purpose driven World leadership and the way we invest are more crucial than ever. Stakeholders are demanding the integration of values into every aspect of business, and leaders are driving the way forward. We are here to...
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Building Africa’s Next Tech Giants: Lexi Novitske General Partner of Norrsken22
What began as a six-month sabbatical backpacking around the African continent became a major career shift for Lexi Novitske. In 2012, Lexi left her job at a hedge fund in New York and landed in Nigeria, never to look back. In 2014, Lexi launched Singularity Investments, a private capital-backed...
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Democratizing Financial Access for Greater Innovation: Steve Biko, Co-Founder, CEO: Zanifu
Steve Biko has led an interesting life. From his childhood in Kenya to moving to the U.S. when he was 16, studying aviation, becoming a licensed pilot, and moving back to Africa to help launch M-PESA, a pioneering collaboration of telecommunication and banking sectors in East Africa, Steve has...
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Advancing Sustainable Luxury Fashion with Maxine Trowbridge, Founder of Eva & Max
Maxine Trowbridge expertly and elegantly links the world of contemporary art, fashion, and high-quality editorial content to concoct a compelling brand identity in Eve & Max, a conscious women's luxury ready-to-wear label designed with the ethos that style should be ethical, sustainable, artful,...
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Unlocking the Power of the Clinical Research Workforce: Peggy Yu, CEO and Co-founder at Stack
Peggy Yu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stack, which is supercharging the impact of clinical trials and research through the most important assets — the people. Peggy brings a wealth of knowledge about the intersection of higher education and the job market, having worked at the Startup Institute…
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Leading with Enthusiasm with Keren Eldad of Enthusiasm Coaching Coach Leadership
Welcome to Season 4 of the Beyond Capital Podcast! In this special kickoff episode, Co-Hosts Eva and Ed are joined by friend of the show, Keren Eldad of With Enthusiasm Coaching. Coach Keren — as she’s widely known — is an accomplished executive coach, but so much more. She is able to break…
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Humanizing Transformation with Ross Baird, CEO of Blueprint Local
On this week’s episode of the Beyond Capital Podcast, we welcome Ross Baird, an accomplished venture capitalist with a focus on emerging markets, startup investing, and real estate. Ross now leads Blueprint Local, which invests in real estate projects that are intended to drive attractive returns...
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Redefining the African Investment Landscape: Christophe de Montille Senior Investment Associate, Beyond Capital Ventures
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 4 of the Beyond Capital Podcast! Today we welcome Christophe de Montille, a Senior Investment Associate with Beyond Capital Ventures. As a native South African who is now based in Nairobi, Christophe offers a unique perspective on Beyond Capital’s investing...
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Delivering Better Health Outcomes Via Drones: Anshul Sharma Co-Founder, Redwing Labs
In an intriguing and inspiring episode, Redwing Labs Co-Founder Anshul Sharma discusses with Eva and Ed his company’s innovative approach to utilizing drone technology to revolutionize access to life-saving medicines in rural India.
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That's a Wrap: Eva & Ed
And that’s a wrap on Season 3! Thank you to our listeners for tuning in to our best season yet. In our closing episode, we’re taking it back to the basics with a Co-Host Special. Ed and Eva will walk each other through their professional and personal journeys, and uncover hidden gems along the…
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Embracing a CEO Mindset: Hooman Yazhari of Mobility Capital
In this special episode of The Beyond Capital podcast we are joined by co-founder of Beyond Capital Fund and CEO of Mobility Capital, Hooman Yazhari. In this episode, Hooman talks to Ed and Eva about: Why the “investment hungry” world of transport is on the cusp of an industrial revolution (3:10)...
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Changing the Narrative: Justin Norman of The Flip Africa
Outsourcing gets a bad rap. And, you know, the gig economy, I think, sometimes gets a bad rap as well. But truly, global workforces, I think, is a particularly interesting premise. If we're talking about solving real world problems in the African context, I think that that is a way forward, that…
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Elevating Our Daily Routines: Katerina Schneider of Ritual
You can't predict everything going on around you. It's like constant chaos. What are the things that you can actually control? And so the vision for the business has always been to be the most trusted brand for everyday health through this kind of virtualization of products. Companies like ours…
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Finding Energy for the Future: Gary Morsches of DemandQ
"I do see a lot of improvement, people pushing for sustainability. People are worried about grid resiliency, not just talking about it, but doing some about it. We understand the heat loads of a building envelope. We understand the capabilities of the cooling equipment inside that building...
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Creating Material Change for Good: Christian Kemp-Griffin
If you just think there's a product and a customer and a desire, it's the same everywhere. You just have to answer those great questions. But I think a vast majority of the product will change. I think there's a real opportunity to change and it will make a big, big difference. It was people...
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Finding Connection in the Online Era: Nina Hersher of the Digital Wellness Institute
Are we engaging in intentionally or passive use? Are we consuming content consciously? And how does that content make us feel whenever we have that kind of constant input? There isn't that quiet time to say, What do we need? What can we create? When you have the clarity, when you have the…
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Feeding the Need for Change: Noramay Cadena of Supply Change Capital
Will this solution reduce the current system, impact on the climate, build healthier communities and or increase generational wealth in diverse communities? We're really interested in building out not only our own platform, but helping other people build out theirs for the community and global...
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Transforming Africa’s Healthcare Future: Sangu Delle of CarePoint
In as much as we are very different as a world. When you take a thousand year perspective, you realize that similar things happen to similar regions across time and space. But we also see telemedicine as a way for us to actually promote some of these behaviors that are positive for the climate. I...
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Let's Catch-Up: Eva & Ed
Today's guest are two very special people, Eva and Ed. This is a special catch-up episode. What have we been up to? Season three. Let's do it.
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Finding Sustainable Solutions: Dillon Baxter of PlantSwitch
Dillon Baxter is the co-founder and CEO of PlantSwitch, a company providing the highest quality biodegradable alternatives to plastic on the market. Dillon started PlantSwitch his senior year at SMU, where he met his co-founder Maxime Blandin. They started PlantSwitch to provide an eco-friendly...
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Prioritizing Health and Wellness: Jacquelyn Kung of Activated Insights
On this weeks episode, we are speaking with Jacquelyn Kung, healthcare expert and serial technology entrepreneur passionate about supporting patient health and experiences by developing innovations in Health IT. With more than two decades of experience building and scaling businesses to serve...
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Making Investing Accessible to All: Aéko Ongodia of XENO
Today's guest is Aeko Ongodia. Aeko hails from Kampala in Uganda. He has a master of science degree in mathematical trading and finance from the Cass Business School in London and a master's in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University. His experience is vast. Having spent…
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Extending Our Impact: Hitha Palepu of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals
On this week’s episode, we speak with Hitha Palepu CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals. Hitha is a consummate multi-hyphenate - an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. As CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals, she oversees financing, partnerships, and strategy for the company. She led the raise of a $5M seed...
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Balancing Bodies with Yasmin Nouri of Beeya Wellness
Nearly 80% of women experience treatable hormonal imbalances, and 43% of women say hormones have negatively affected their overall well-being, according to new research. How do we help women feel better and just increase education around women's health and hormones, which I've said multiple times...
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Humanizing Transformation - Lawrence Perkins of Sierra Constellation Partners
In a 1993 study, Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, theorized that humans could have no more than about 150 meaningful relationships, a measure that became known as Dunbar’s number. Networking to me is just kind of a dirty word and no one would accuse me of not networking. I just don't like...
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Fully Engaged Capital: Catherine Woodman of Impact Investors Inc
It can be really schizophrenic and doing great things on the one hand and doing terrible things on the other hand. Our job is to take all of that and to consideration. Our whole American culture is really set up to support financial services, but not really to support the individual. There's many...
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Raising the Bar for Women: Jessie Gabriel of All-Places
Having spent 15 years at big law firms, law firms lose out on a lot of market opportunities because the way they approach their client relationships. We want to make sure that these women know we really want them as clients. You're going to feel comfortable here. This community was made for you....
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Special Episode: Eva & Ed
Welcome to Season three of the Beyond Capital Podcast. People always ask me, what is the secret sauce to marrying profit with purpose? We're back for another season to bring you the stories of successful leaders that are building and scaling purpose driven businesses. I'm Eva Yazhari general...
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The Beyond Capital Podcast Season 3 Teaser
Welcome to Season three of the Beyond Capital Podcast. People always ask, what is the secret to marrying profit with purpose? We are back for another season to bring you the stories of successful leaders that are building and scaling purpose driven businesses. I'm Eva Yazhari general partner of...
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Dive Back In: Supporting Small Businesses with Dan Price
Dive back in and hear from the purpose-driven CEOs we highlighted in Season 1 of the Beyond Capital Podcast. Your host Eva Yazhari was inspired by Dan's story, and wrote about his work at Gravity Payments in her new book, The Good Your Money Can Do. Click here to learn more and get your copy.…
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Dive Back In: Wealth Consciousness with Seth Streeter
Dive back in and hear from the purpose-driven CEOs we highlighted in Season 1 of the Beyond Capital Podcast. Your host Eva Yazhari was inspired by Kristin's story, and wrote about her work at Revolution Foods in her new book, The Good Your Money Can Do. Click here to learn more and get your copy....
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Dive Back In: Healthy Uprising with Kristin Richmond of Revolution Foods
Dive back in and hear from the purpose-driven CEOs we highlighted in Season 1 of the Beyond Capital Podcast. Your host Eva Yazhari was inspired by Kristin's story, and wrote about her work at Revolution Foods in her new book, The Good Your Money Can Do. Click here to learn more and get your copy....
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Tune into the Beyond Capital Podcast to discover how the C-Suite thinks about social impact as a business grows. Learn about how social values and causes integrate into a company's operations, product, culture - and ultimately - its success. Eva and Ed have built, scaled and sold companies worth millions. We are active early-stage investors with more than 20 current investments. We sit on private and public-company boards, and we believe strongly in business as a force for good. From the CEO of a company serving two and a half million healthy school meals a week to one of the world’s first and most successful recycling entrepreneurs, in each episode our candid conversations show how and why profit can be married with purpose. Inspiring leaders will articulate their philosophies and share the mark their business will leave on the world. You will be inspired by these stories to explore your own possibilities for social impact because money and meaning can co-exist!
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