ChewingRice

What ChewingRice does

ChewingRice explores business growth through the lens of inclusivity. By weaving together profit and purpose, the company works with clients to innovate for the future. Its integrated approach ensures businesses don't just make abstract statements but actually live and breathe the values they claim to have. ChewingRice designs and delivers workshops to create internal cultural shifts, empowering female staff and improving workplace productivity.

Name

ChewingRice

Legal name

ChewingRice Ltd.

Website

https://chewingrice.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ChewingRice explores business growth through inclusivity, integrating profit and purpose, and delivering cultural shift workshops.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGABAM

Microfinance, Financial Inclusion & Inclusive Markets

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/International Development & Poverty Alleviation

Keywords

• Management consulting
• Financial services consulting
• Transformation consulting
• Capacity building programmes
• ESG advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Strategy & Innovation Consulting: Professional consulting services delivering strategy development, operating model design, organisational culture transformation, and ethical frameworks. Delivered as bespoke engagements to enterprise clients across multiple sectors.
2. Capacity Building Programmes: Training and development programmes including Learn to DRIVE leadership programme (3-day workshops), Inclusive Innovation workshops, and custom e-learning courses. Delivered in-person, digital, or hybrid formats.
3. CR Labs Projects: Experimental projects developed by the ChewingRice team, including both self-initiated ventures and commissioned work for external clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ChewingRice is a London-based, female-founded strategy consultancy that helps financial institutions and investors in Africa and other emerging markets deliver inclusive, ethical and trust-led transformation. Its work spans Ethical Transformation advisory, Capacity Building Programmes, CR Labs insights and a dedicated Financial Services Transformation practice that turns strategic intent into measurable frontline outcomes.

Product overview

ChewingRice is a female-founded strategy consultancy offering a portfolio of advisory services centred on its proprietary Ethical Transformation® methodology. The core offering consists of strategy and innovation consulting, capacity building programmes (including the 'Learn to DRIVE' leadership programme and Inclusive Innovation workshops), and CR Labs for experimental projects. The company also delivers specialised initiatives such as the Women4Growth Programme for gender equality and #DestinationZero for climate innovation. Services span corporate strategy, operating model design, organisational culture transformation, and inclusive product development, primarily serving financial services, telecoms, and development sector clients across Africa, South Asia, and emerging markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ethical Transformation®: Proprietary methodology combining design thinking and inclusion principles to build successful businesses through constant innovation, collaboration and productivity.
• CR Labs

Products and services

• Ethical Transformation Proprietary transformation methodology that embeds inclusion, gender and trust outcomes into financial-services change programmes, sold as a standalone consulting offering to banks, investors and DFIs.
• Capacity Building Programmes Structured training and capability-uplift programmes for financial institutions and DFI portfolio partners, designed to embed inclusive and ethical practices into frontline teams and leadership.
• CR Labs ChewingRice's insights, action and communication framework that converts diagnostic findings on ethical and inclusive finance into actionable frontline interventions and communications for financial institutions.
• Financial Services Transformation Dedicated transformation service line for banks and financial institutions in Africa and other emerging markets, translating strategy into measurable frontline and inclusive-finance outcomes, evidenced by the Nairobi bank assignment.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,000+ hours of training delivered, resulting in 75+ policy shifts impacting 50,000+ employees across 8 sectors and 3 continents
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, flagship and core.

• British International Investment (BII)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 October 2025Attended BII event on 'Impact: Building Investment Ecosystems in Frontier Markets' exploring how investment can build stronger ecosystems. Discussed technical assistance as a tool to unlock innovation and inclusion.
• Swedfund InternationalflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Flagship Women4Growth programme partnership since 2021, empowering women across Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to lead, innovate, and drive gender equality. ChewingRice delivers tailored programme design, high-impact facilitation, and ongoing support across multiple sectors and countries.
• British CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Partnership to design #DestinationZero climate platform ahead of COP26 and COP27, putting emerging voices from the Global South at the centre of climate action. Platform included social media campaigns, online learning sessions, and mentorship opportunities.
• Rise SustainabilitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2019Ongoing partnership bringing together complementary expertise to deliver gender inclusion programmes. Worked together on behalf of Proparco to support NETIS, a pan-African telecommunications company. ChewingRice delivered bilingual strategy documents and facilitated train-the-trainer workshops for gender equality initiatives.
• Dolma Impact FundminorOthersTim Goecher of Dolma Impact Fund participated in BII panel discussion where ChewingRice shared perspectives on technical assistance and impact investing.
• ProparcocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelopment finance institution for which ChewingRice and Rise Sustainability delivered gender inclusion support to NETIS portfolio companies. Women4Growth Phase 2 delivered across multiple investee companies.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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