Founded in 2010, LeFil Consulting specializes in the identification, design, growth and replication of innovations that create social and economic value, sustainably and at scale. We work for start-ups and large corporations, donors and NGOs, as well as governments and their constituencies. We have expertise across a broad range of sectors and geographies.
Services
Research and advice
Crafting tailored paths to creating social impact and generating economic value
Illustrative examples
Advise social entrepreneurs on developing and implementing innovative franchising strategies, so that they can grow twice as fast, at lower cost
Help corporations identify and invest into highly innovative social ventures globally, in ways that are embedded with their core business
Craft the national strategy on social innovation and launch it via investment programs for rural and urban areas
Analyse social businesses in any sector to help rethink the investment strategy and processes of impact investors
Collaborations
Facilitating partnerships and alliances to address social issues collectively
Illustrative examples
Constitute a consortium of city councils, donors and entrepreneurs to develop providers of essential goods and services in urban slums
Design and support a public-private partnership to bring integrated packages of essential health and nutrition to rural school children
Enable groups of local organizations to incubate rural micro-entrepreneurs improving the resilience and inclusion of their communities
Establish a multi-business platform to invest into growing a pipeline of young professionals and enterprises they can hire out
Field surveys
Running cost-effective and fast field impact surveys via phone, tablets and internet
Illustrative examples
Design and run phone or internet surveys of end consumers to understand profiles, motivations, product experience and impact on their livelihoods
Design and run a cloud-based platform that aggregates, analyses and reports on field surveys among users of dozens of social enterprises
Train local organizations to design, run and embed end user surveys for stronger strategy, operations and reporting
Analyse field data to help a company better reconcile objectives of viable economic growth and building resilient and inclusive societies around them
Local Presence

Track record
Our team members are proud to have served many clients, including corporations (e.g. Nestlé, LVMH), industry alliances, public and development players (e.g. Swiss Development Cooperation, World Bank, Government of Kazakhstan), as well as impact investors (e.g. responsAbility) and foundations (e.g. Swiss Re Foundation). Our team has also deep insights on hundreds of social businesses and social innovations worldwide, notably in the fields of housing, energy, water, sanitation, information and communication technologies, financial services, health, agriculture, mobility, nutrition and aging.
Testimonials
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New Ventures
LeFil Consulting has been a key partner for New Ventures in our effort to catalyze the growth of social businesses in Latin America. LeFil has been invaluable both as a direct supporter of entrepreneurs through content developed for data measurement, gender initiatives, amongst others and as the strategic consultant for a broader partnership that includes Ashoka and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
With LeFil’s support, we have been able to directly support almost 50 social businesses from all over Latin America. In turn, this has allowed us to positively impact hundreds of thousands of people from underserved communities. We are delighted to have worked with LeFil in the past and look forward to continue collaboration in the future.
Daniel Reyes – Acceleration Manager – New Ventures
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Mamotest
LeFil’s analysis report has been really useful and beneficial for Mamotest, as its been the process we went through together, with great professionalism. The results showed our company’s potential growth and the positive and social impact we have had on thousands of women.
It was a great opportunity for Mamotest to work in such a deep analysis, getting to understand the importance of measuring KPIs, and going through the entire process of social impact and it’s beneficiaries. We’re sure the results obtained will help us on the visibilization of the impact we’re generating, and continue growing the network together with the public sector and private organizations.
Camila de Pamphilis – COO – Mamotest
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Ventus Learning
We collaborated with LeFil over the last two years to set up and deliver training programs for social entrepreneurs in topics such as gender mainstreaming and the use of data in management. Thanks to our collaboration with LeFil, we contributed to fostering the analytical and critical thinking skills of the teams of tens of social enterprises throughout Latin America and Africa, profoundly impacting the way they are thinking and doing business. It was a truly inspiring journey!
Rafael Boff – Partner – Ventus Learning
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Essmart Global
Essmart had the privilege of working over the past 6 months with LeFil Consulting on multiple strategic initiatives. With LeFil team’s help, we collected and analyzed precious data about our shop owner network, which will be a critical part of Essmart’s strategic planning for the years to come. With support from LeFil, we have been able to transform our data from a sea of numbers to valuable insights.
Jackie Stenson – Co-Founder and CEO – Essmart Global
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ColdHubs
As winners of the 2018 Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award sponsored by the Swiss Re Foundation, ColdHubs has received valuable support from LeFil Consulting over the course of 2 years. LeFil’s team helped us analyze our sales data and customer behavior, refine our marketing approach and strengthen our financial management. We have benefitted from their experience with social entrepreneurs, and their understanding of the challenges and opportunities that come with working in low-income settings. Thanks to LeFil’s support we are now in a stronger position to continue growing our business and impact.
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu – CEO – ColdHubs
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Swiss Re Foundation
We appreciate LeFil’s support to make Swiss Re Foundation’s vision to build a resilient society a reality. Your contribution to identify, assess and coach promising ventures addressing key resilience issues clearly drives the success of our Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award. Your entrepreneurial approach, expertise and flexibility drive the very positive outcomes we experienced with this Award since its launch.
Stefan Huber Fux – Director – Swiss Re Foundation
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Bive
LeFil Consulting is supporting us on critical strategic topics and initiatives since 2017. Our team participated in the Gender Mainstreaming program, which resulted in the development of the Mujer Bive tu Salud Project, which promotes the early diagnosis of breast and cervical cancer in rural Colombia. Thanks to LeFil’s support, we subsequently received a CHF 10’000 grant from the Swiss Development and Cooperation that helped us launch the project and reach 500 women. As a consequence of this first investment, we managed to raise additional funds and reached 1’750 women in the first year. We also benefitted from LeFil’s advice to strengthen our business model and create partnerships with investors and other entrepreneurs. This support allowed us to greatly increase our impact and develop a partnership with other actors of the health sector, that will allow chronic diabetic patients to better understand their condition and to improve their quality of life.
Diana Quintero – Co-Founder – Bive
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D&E Green Enterprises
I had a more than satisfying experience with LeFil, as their workshop on ‘Leading with Data’ convinced me about the importance of using data to lead and improve our organization. Thanks to this training, my company is now better addressing its customers’ needs.
The knowledge I gained was successfully transferred to my team and we established tracking and analysis tools that we will keep using in future.
Jimmy Bruce – D&E Enterprises
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FPIP (Government of Kazakhstan)
We are glad to have selected LeFil Consulting and team to design our Inclusive Innovation Consortium Grant Program in 2018. By applying their extensive international experience to our local context, LeFil’s team helped us design the first ever Inclusive Innovation Program in Kazakhstan. To fully understand the situation in Kazakhstan and the underlying problems that the region is facing, LeFil’s team did a very insightful field visit, led workshops, and ultimately helped us understand how to move forward. Thanks to their work, our Program was launched successfully.
Darkhan Seitkazin – Manager – Fostering Productive Innovations Project (Government of Kazakhstan)
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Oxfam Kenya
LeFil Consulting worked with Oxfam during 2019, introducing private sector participation in the management of rural potable water in Kenya. They provided encompassing analyses of the institutional, technical, financial, environmental and social background, facilitated the program design, and conducted due diligence and formative research analytics. LeFil Consulting is diligent in its work and their collaborative and innovative spirit makes them the go-to expert for our most significant projects in reference to market-based models for operation and maintenance of rural water schemes. They are detail-oriented, well organized and always open to constructive feedback, making our business relationship both effortless and pleasant. We recommend LeFil Consulting for any role through which the firm can contribute their remarkable creativity and dedication.
Matthew Cousins – Director – Humanitarian Systems Strengthening
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Altech
Thanks to a competition that LeFil is facilitating on behalf of a large Swiss foundation, our company – Altech – got a grant that helped us grow significantly faster. But with this growth came a whole lot of questions and opportunities as for how to manage our sales force. LeFil obliged us to first gather data and facts about our current performance and approach, before developing any recommendations. On this basis, we evolved our sales strategy in a much sounder and confident way, rather than on gut feeling or experimental pilots. They also helped us improve our working capital management, an essential step in this new phase of our company. We are very grateful to LeFil for helping us laying the foundations for a successful expansion operation – both in terms of impact and business.
Washikala Malango – Co-Founder and CEO – Altech Group
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CarePay
As part of the benefits we received as winners of the 2019 Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award, CarePay has the opportunity to work with LeFil and receive customized strategic advisory. We had the pleasure of welcoming LeFil’s team in our Nairobi offices for an in-depth problem-solving session, through which they helped us articulate the impact of our solution not only on our direct clients, but on the broader ecosystem too. Through their analytical support, we will be able to quantify the value that CarePay unlocks for different stakeholders, which will help us strengthen our business case and sharpen our focus. We look forward to continuing to work with LeFil’s team!
Moses Kuria – Managing Director – CarePay