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Root Capital

Overview
Headquarters: 
Cambridge, MA
Size: 
51-200 employees
Founded: 
1999
Annual Budget : 
$5-10M
Populations Served: 
Latino/Hispanic
About Us
Mission: 

Root Capital invests in the growth of agricultural enterprises so they can transform rural communities. These businesses purchase crops such as coffee, cocoa, or grains from smallholder farmers. With growth, they become engines of impact that can raise incomes, create jobs, empower women and young people, sustain peace and preserve vulnerable ecosystems.

We supply these businesses with vital resources: access to capital, trade and technical partners, financial training and conservation practices. We work in hard-to-serve geographies where others don’t. To date, we’ve distributed $1.5 billion to improve the lives of over 10 million people in farming communities.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Root Capital currently has associated offices in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Senegal, and Kenya.

Programs: 

Founded in 1999 by Willy Foote, Root Capital works in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. We supply agricultural businesses with financial capital and training to help them grow. We've worked with more than 740 clients, representing 2.3 million farmers and their families and $4.6 billion in economic activity. All in some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

industry: 
Nonprofit