Leila Janah was a social entrepreneur using technology and lean business methods to promote social and economic justice. See sector focus and contact routes.
About Leila Janah
Leila Janah was a social entrepreneur using technology and lean business methods to promote social and economic justice through the Sama Group. She founded Samasource, an award-winning non-profit that connects people in poverty to microwork, lifting 20,000 above the poverty line. She co-founded Samahope, a crowdfunding site for medical treatments in developing countries. Janah also served as a director of CARE USA and TechSoup Global.
Leila Janah at a glance
Role
Angel Investor
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Investor type
Individual/Angel
Focus areas
Ms. Leila Janah is the Founder of and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Samasource. Ms. Leila is a Co-Founder of and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Laxmi Beauty. Laxmi is her latest venture under the Sama umbrella, with the same mission: to Give Work. Prior to Sama Group, Leila was a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo. Leila is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA
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What does Leila Janah invest in?
Leila Janah (San Francisco, CA, United States) — sector focus: Ms. Leila Janah is the Founder of and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Samasource. Ms. Leila is a Co-Founder of and serves as the Chie….
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Leila Janah is based in San Francisco, CA, United States.
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