TechnoServe is a non-profit organization delivering solutions to poverty, helping people in low-income communities build better futures for themselves through agriculture and entrepreneurship development programs.

Edward P. Bullard

TechnoServe

Yandex N.V., a technology company, builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning and other technologies to help consumers and businesses navigate the online and offline world. The company operates through Search and Portal, Taxi, Yandex.Market, Media Services, Classifieds, and Other Business Units and Initiatives segments. It provides locally relevant search and information services. The company also develops on-demand transportation, delivery, and navigation services and products, as well as operates in the e-commerce, online entertainment, and cloud computing markets to address the needs of customers in Russia and various international markets. In addition, it operates Yandex.Plus, a subscription loyalty program; offers fintech instruments, such as payment and financial services; and advertising services. Further, the company operates classifieds platforms for the sale of used and new cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, and spare parts; and sale and rental of apartments, houses, and commercial property for private individuals, developers, and realtors, as well as a long-term apartment rental platform to manage pre-contract rental processes and subsequent administration of the payments. Additionally, it operates Yandex Zen, a social infotainment platform that brings together content creators and users; and Yandex Cloud, a cloud platform that provides infrastructure, storage, machine learning, and development tools to build and enhance cutting-edge digital services and applications for B2B customers and individual developers. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.

Yandex N.V.

Айкумен ИБС provides information business systems, specializing in intelligent machine data analysis and complex information analytics for timely management decisions based on factual data. The company also offers services in big data collection and processing.

Айкумен ИБС

TechnoServe India

TechnoServe Mozambique

TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. TechnoServe employs more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of them host-country nationals working in the field. Our staff combine business expertise with local knowledge, relationships, and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. 

In 2020, TechnoServe's work helped transform the lives of 1.3 million people in Puerto Rico as well as countries throughout Africa, Latin American, and Asia by targeting improvements in farms, businesses, and industries. Learn more about our impact at www.technoserve.org/impact

Walmart Foundation

Regenerative agricultural practices increase smallholder farmers’ productivity and incomes. When you invest you #makeadifference! https://bit.ly/3OlH8uo  #globalimpact

Breaking news -- you just maxed out the number of evaluations in my long-term impact challenge! So here is my $1,000 donation to our local animal shelter 👇 And my 4 main takeaways from this experiment:

(1) There have been more ex-post evaluations carried out than I had previously thought. On the donor side – kudos to the Millennium Challenge Corporation and to the Japan International Cooperation Agency, both of which carry out regular ex-post evaluations on projects of a certain size. (JICA’s evaluations alone could have maxed out this challenge!) 

#USAID has run some high-quality ex-post evaluations and has even used the results to drive policy change. But despite this, USAID only supports ex-post evaluations on a tiny share of the work it funds – like far too many other large development donors.

(2) Yes, we reached the maximum donation to the animal shelter … but the overall numbers look BAD. The fact that, apart from JICA, we got ~dozens of post-project evaluations in response to this query – amid the thousands of development projects and billions of dollars spent over the years – indicates that measuring long-term impact is the rare exception, not the norm.

🙀🙀🙀 <--shocked cats, appropriately

(3) It was great to see the wide variety of organizations who used many different methodologies to answer the question: Did a project's impact last after it ended? As we seek to scale up long-term impact measurement, let's consider a range of approaches -- the perfect doesn’t have to be the enemy of the good.

(4) Perhaps the most important lesson has been that ex-post evaluations tend to generate ACTIONABLE information that can change the direction of development policies and investments. Sometimes their findings are different than those of a project’s endline evaluation! Simply put, if we want to make impact that lasts, we have to measure it. Regularly.


Armed with all this new information, I’m turning my attention to how to scale up the use of ex-post evaluations. It seems obvious to me that the answer to scale-up must lie with development donors rather than with implementers. After all, they have the ability to require more regular ex-post evaluations on their projects.

But I’m eager to learn more, and to hear YOUR thoughts on how to find and fund the lasting solutions that people fighting poverty so deserve. Let me know if you're interested in joining these efforts – and thank you again!

Small business can make a big impact on both the local and global economy. Juan Carlos explains how in our latest blog post. 
https://bit.ly/3vW16FF

🌍 Call for Partnerships: Transforming Waste Management in Micro Retail!
Are you passionate about creating sustainable change in the micro retail sector? TechnoServe invites expressions of interest from dynamic organizations eager to join forces in revolutionizing the Micro Retail sector's waste management practices.

🚀 About the Initiative:
Under the Smart Duka Initiative, we are launching an innovative Market Systems Development (MSD) program focused on reshaping waste management in Micro Retail. Partner with us to drive positive environmental impact while empowering micro-retailers to thrive. For more details please review the Request for Applicants document here

🌐 Who Can Apply?
Private Recycling Companies
Industry Organizations
Innovators in Waste Prevention Solutions
Businesses with a Circular Economy Focus

💡 Why Partner with Us?
Leverage market-driven solutions
Align with sustainability goals
Impact micro-retailers and local communities
Join a collaborative network of change-makers

📅 Timeline:
Application Deadline: 16th February 2024

📧 Submit Your Expression of Interest: ke-info@tns.org

Let's embark on a journey to transform waste management together! 🌱 #SmartDuka #SustainablePartnerships #WasteTransformation

January’s photos of the month focus on Kenyan smallholder coffee farmers increasing their incomes and lifting themselves out of poverty. From picking coffee cherries to drying beans, let us know which photo is your favorite in the comments. Get the stories behind the photos on our blog. https://bit.ly/42quro4

Your donation makes a difference. Help us end poverty. #endpoverty #donatenow https://bit.ly/3ubQmCH

Sildio Mbonyumuhire, TechnoServe Lab’s Product Management and Engineering Director, was recently featured on the My Tech Story Africa podcast, saying, “This work is gratifying for a few reasons. Building a technology solution is one thing, but seeing end users use it in practice is a whole other thing. Seeing that the solution you designed contributes to lifting someone out of poverty is even better.” You can read more on our blog. Take the first step towards your dream job - apply today!  https://bit.ly/3ScEKal

#TechnoServe #SolutionsToPoverty #FightingPoverty  #WeAreTechnoServe #devjobs #jobsintech

TechnoServe President and CEO Will Warshauer recently sat down with Board Co-chair Rachel Hines to discuss her career, her involvement with TechnoServe, and the generous gift she and her husband recently made to the organization. Follow the link for a look into their conversation. https://bit.ly/3SpoYZI

In the past seven years 9,671 youth micro-retailers, 59% of which were female, joined a program that  strengthened 21,000 jobs across Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire. These young people are making a big impact in their communities. #entrepreneurship #youthunemployment https://bit.ly/3SlrP5U

Nieves Rocio Requeno's business in El Salvador not only sells baby clothes but creates opportunities for young people like herself. With TechnoServe's help, she discovered she could provide critical resources for mothers and create job opportunities. https://bit.ly/3RSb6Hs

Metric
Company Name	TechnoServe	Yandex N.V.	Айкумен ИБС
Symbol		YNDX
MSH ID	ORG:TECHNOSERVE	COM:YANDEX	RU:IQMEN
Market	PRIVATE	STOCKS	PRIVATE
Sector	Public & Social Sector	Communication Services	Technology
Industry	Non-Profit Organization	Internet Content & Information	Information Technology and Services
Country	US	RU	RU
Stage
Employee Count	2.52K	26.36K
Website	technoserve.org	yandex.com	iqmen.ru
LinkedIn
Founders

Metric
Market Cap		15.14B
Enterprise Value
Monthly Web Traffic		105
Web Traffic Growth		-0.53
Valuation
Raised Capital

Metric
Revenue		8.36B
Revenue (LTM)
Revenue (NTM)
Gross Profit		4.18B
EBITDA		822.04M
Operating Income		309.20M
Net Income		207.58M
EPS		0.56
Diluted EPS		0.56
Revenue 2022
Revenue 2023
Revenue 2024
Revenue 2025
Revenue 2026

Metric
Revenue Growth (LTM)
Revenue Growth (NTM)
Gross Profit Growth (LTM)
EBITDA Growth (LTM)
Net Income Growth (LTM)
14-Day Growth Score
28-Day Growth Score
90-Day Growth Score
365-Day Growth Score

Metric
Gross Profit Margin		0.54
Operating Profit Margin		0.04
EBITDA Margin		0.10
Net Profit Margin		0.04
Return on Equity		0.09
Return on Assets		0.03
Return on Capital Employed		0.08

ORG:TECHNOSERVE

TechnoServe

Company Overview

Market Metrics

Financial Performance

Growth Metrics

Profitability Ratios

Valuation Multiples

Operational Metrics

Cash Flow Metrics

Balance Sheet Metrics

Efficiency Metrics

Metric
P/E Ratio		18.30
P/B Ratio		2.11
Revenue Multiple (LTM)
Revenue Multiple (NTM)
EBITDA Multiple (LTM)
EBITDA Multiple (NTM)
Price to Sales Ratio		2.34
EV Multiple		17.16

Metric
Days Sales Outstanding		58.11
Days Payables Outstanding		183.99
Days Inventory Outstanding		352.12
Operating Cycle		352.99
Cash Conversion Cycle		346.87
Asset Turnover		1.00

Metric
Operating Cash Flow		734.23M
Free Cash Flow		-346.55M
Cash Flow to Debt		64.67
Operating Cash Flow/Sales		0.11
Free Cash Flow Yield		-0.02

Metric
Cash & Equivalents		965.41M
Accounts Receivable		-605.74M
Inventory		212.81M
Goodwill		1.43B
Debt to Capitalization		0.32
Debt to Assets		0.22
Current Ratio		0.89
Quick Ratio		0.71

Metric
Rule of 40 (LTM)
Rule of 40 (NTM)
Stock Comp to Revenue		0.00
R&D to Revenue		0.12
SG&A to Revenue		0.09