“So many of the companies we’re meeting… they’re really, really interesting companies, but we often find that very few of them have the dream of making a company that will be the next Facebook or the next Uber— the unicorns, right?

Instead, when we were going through our design and thinking process for creating our impact fund, we came across the concept of a zebra which is an alternative to go big or go home culture. We immediately thought— yes! These are the companies we’re meeting and the companies we want to support.”

In this episode of The Idealists. (formerly Grit & Grace), host and entrepreneur Melissa Kiguwa interviews Jenny Atout Ahlzen, one of the Managing Founders of Amam Ventures, an impact investment fund based in Jordan that provides risk capital to Small and Medium Sized enterprises that are committed to diversity and inclusion. In this episode, Jenny shares how her and her business partners are moving the needle on women’s economic participation in the Arab world.