Ahas
In the East Africa Venture Capital Association Industry Awards 2026- The Acumen employee took home the East African Leadership Award. Who is this person and what is their role at Acumen?
Chris Maranga, Regional Director, Leads east and west Africa Investment work
Who is leading the Green Rise program?
Moyin Okubur
When was Acumen Founded?
April 2001
What is the name of the recent Papal letter that Mahesh spoke about? Which AI giant was invited to speak at the presentation of this letter/document in the Vatican and what is the document a message about?
(50,25,25)
1. Encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitus’
2. Anthropic Founder Chris Olah
3. Keeping humanity as focus as we build AI
What is the current overall sectoral focus for Acumen?
Climate and Poverty
Recently, Mahesh shared an AHA regarding the power of community. A few months ago, Chetan received a call from the IT department regarding AF Trust’s registrations. Which registrations were these and how long were they valid for?
12A registration - 5 years
80G registration - 10 years
Name 4 people from the board who were in India last year?
50*4
Nate, Andrea, Hans, Christina, Karen
What is the name of the global program that will be launched aimed at focusing on a select set of foundry members to magnify their influence/impact? Who is leading this?
Scale Ready Ventures; Kome
Which region was preparing for their country’s presidential election?
Say any one fact that you know about this election.
Columbia which was scheduled on 31st May. A lot of violence has emerged in threatening people in rural areas about who they will vote, the last president Gustavo Petro, who constitutionally barred from participating for a 2nd term was the first left wing president since their independence in 1810. Academy postponed their 2nd immersive due to safety risks caused by the elections
After the textile sector what is the second largest source of urban female employment? Name one foundry member in India who works in this space? What is the name of their organisation? Name two other start ups in the same space? (50*4)
Domestic work is the second largest source of urban female employment, with women comprising ~80%.
Niharika, Broomees
Pronto, Snabbit, , Urban Company’s InstaHelp
A foundry member led the Builders program this year.
Who is she, which company is she the co founder of?
What does the organisation do and which region does this organisation work out of?
What is the name of the book she co wrote and recently launched?
(100*3)
Disha Mullick, Co Founder - Khabar Lahariya,
All-women rural news collective working from Bundelkhand.
Book - The Good Reporter
Some teams do TMM and MMM
Which region does it on another day?
Which team does not share?
(100*2)
Pakistan ; Acumen America
On 19th of May the New York Comms team launched a campaign - What is the name of the campaign and what is it towards? What is the other sport Acumen has done as part of its comms/fundraising campaigns in the past?
(100*3)
Campaign - Love The World Game Love The World More
Purpose - host regional pickup soccer/football matches in a given toolkit to raise funds for climate work in Acumen
Marathon (NY)
Fill in the blanks -
India loses 8 lakh cr rupees every year because of poor ___________. The World Bank estimated India's total welfare productivity loss from _______________to be 7.7 of the GDP. ______ experiences almost 264 worse days in a year that costs them 6% of GDP.
The 2026 ‘state of working’ report published by the Azim Premji University was discussed in revealing a paradox about the Indian labour market developments. What is that paradox?
Despite successful advances in graduate education especially post-1991, the percentage of unemployed youth who are graduates has increased from 13% to 67% in the last 40 years but real wages for graduates have decreased and the wage premium over those who do not have a graduate degree has also reduced.
Erfan a Pakistan Foundry member recently mobilised foundry, government and civil society in Pakistan for something.
What was this?
25 Afghan orphan girls — ages 7 to 13, with no family waiting for them anywhere — were detained and put on a bus to Torkham Border for forced deportation to Afghanistan. Erfaan, leading this effort in under twenty-four hours mobilised government, civil society, and international humanitarian institutions to stop that deportation. The order to halt arrived with six minutes to spare. The girls are now safe and back in Islamabad.
What is the name of the program piloted by Acumen Academy India in 2025- 2026 to reach out to people working for solutions of poverty but who typically get left out of our fellowship criteria?
Which 3 organizations partnered with us to hold this program?
Who were the POC - Foundry Members from each of these organisations?
NE collective, NYEF, Shiksharth
What is a learners space that academy launched last year that is attracting traction because of learning from people who have founded organisations?
Name one India staff person’s and one India Foundry members' videos posted in this learning space.
Founders hub,
Mahesh (how to build a balanced board)
Vijay Sai Pratap/Saumya Dabriwal - on pitches
Who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Wangarĩ Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is the full form of CCTS that Ruhi referred to in her MMM context a few months ago?
What are the two types of CCs generated in India?
Carbon Credit Trading Scheme which are CO2 avoidance based or nature-based CO2 removal solutions .
The above, would establish a domestic compliance mechanism and an offset mechanism for Voluntary carbon markets (VCM).
Share summary of an AHA/values in action from Carsten or JN in recent TMMs
Carsten - Colombia is hosting roughly three million refugees from Venezuela.
Jacqueline -Iran US moral imagination
Name 4 companies in the West Africa portfolio. At least two need to be non-Pioneering Energy Investment Initiative/Energy
PEII- Installer, Koolbooks, EasySolar, PayG, PEG Africa, Winock Solar,
Trellis/Agri- Vitara (Somalife), Agroekonr, Loom chocolate,Cropbank, Cropsafe, WARC
Question: Last week, Acumen officially became part of a global framework. What is the name of that framework? (200pts)
What does it do/measure? (200pts)
How many investors joined the framework before Acumen? (100pts)
2Xchallenge
The 2X Challenge measures and assesses gender-lens investments to determine if they actively support women’s economic empowerment and gender equality
11 investors before
The Kenyan environmental activist Truphena Muthoni recently got recognized by the Guinness book for what?
She hugged a tree continuously for 72 hours outside Nyeri County Government offices. This surpassed her earlier 48-hour endurance effort and was undertaken not as a spectacle, but as a deeply symbolic and intentional act to draw attention to forest conservation, climate change, and humanity’s relationship with nature.
Truphena previously explained that her initial 48-hour challenge aimed to “Reintroduce Humanity to the Earth.” By extending the effort to 72 hours, she reinforced a more powerful message: that genuine care for our planet requires sustained commitment.
In last week’s NY TMM, Sarah Beiber references an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in the context of an emerging source of philanthropy. She references two companies who will emerge as never heard before sources of philanthropy. Which are these companies and what is the estimated giving capacity of these philanthropies? 250*2
Open AI Foundation and Anthropic founders who have committed to give away 80% of wealth
Open AI’s 900 billion IPO
Estimated amounts - 220bn from Open AI’s 26% holding and 37-100$ billion from Anthropic.