People &
Planet

Mekong Capital has always had a strong ESG focus since its first fund in 2001. The involvement of various development finance institutions as our LPs and partners did help us at various times to articulate clear ESG standards and goals. More recently we have aimed to align our efforts with  the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and our personal purposes and commitments in life, which we seek to fulfill through our work at Mekong Capital.

Responsible Production

By backing scalable businesses that promote circular practices, reduce waste, and support sustainable sourcing across value chains, several of our investments may support advancing SDG#12: Responsible Consumption & Production

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Entobel

Entobel brings circularity to the aquaculture supply chain by replacing fish meal with insect protein, fed on food waste from fruit plantations, industrial food processing and breweries near their factories in Southern Vietnam. Fish farming for fishmeal in Latin America can contribute to the depletion of marine stocks, potentially impacting food sources for whales and leading to negative climate consequences. Fish meal consists primarily of small forage fish like anchovies, which are a crucial food source for various marine life, including whales. And whales, besides for being lovable, play a critical role in ocean health and sinking of carbon into the ocean.

Entobel is already a Certified B Corporation.

Husk

Husk’s biochar-based solutions for farmers, including organic biochar based fertilizers help to catalyze the transitions from chemical inputs to organic inputs. Meanwhile, they produce biochar and biochar based fertilizers that utilize rice husks (which would otherwise be burned and carbon released into the atmosphere) to make biochar, which both directly buries carbon in the soil, and creates a healthier soil biome which sustains more living organic activity and therefore more carbon in the soil.

Marou Chocolate

Marou Chocolate won the “Jury’s Favorite Packaging” award at the Prix Épicures de l’Épicerie Fine 2025 in France for their dark chocolate bar with roasted buckwheat, specifically for its innovative packaging made from recycled cacao husk[1]. Marou is also working towards becoming a Certified B Corporation. Likewise, Marou works directly with local cacao farmers to [promote sustainable farming practices which result in a specialty cacao that stands 1-0-2 in the world of flavor while ensuring transparency and responsibility in cacao sourcing, especially benefitting smallholder farmers.

Our former investee, the popular pizza chain Pizza 4Ps, is known for promoting circularity, for example utilizing the waste from cheese production or food waste to grow fish or use as ingredients in their beers.

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