Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing microfinance and trying to tackle poverty.

Bruysten then started setting up Grameen Creative Lab with a German entrepreneur, where her former BCG colleague Sophie Eisenmann later joined.

It provides patient loans and post-investment support to social businesses in Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

Yunus Funds covers the sectors Agriculture and Livelihoods, Health and Sanitation, Education and Training and Energy and Environment.

[13] Yunus Corporate Innovation has conducted research into the business benefits of social procurement in collaboration with SAP and BCG.

Participants in the 2021 cohort included social intrapreneurs representing Suez, Novartis, Unilever, Tata Trust, Accenture, ClubMed, Axa, Mastercard, and others.

[21] Take a Stake aims to close a funding gap in the WASH and waste sectors, initially in East Africa and India.