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Impact Investing
Our impact as funders is only made possible through the vision, expertise, and hard work of our portfolio companies. Their impact inspires us every day and we are honored to support each of them.
International
United States
Direct Investments
Livelihoods
BluLever
Africa | Equity
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $150K
BluLever delivers holistic vocational education and skills training to artisans (plumbers, electricians, etc.) in South Africa and helps empower them with skills to find more meaningful and profitable careers.
Livelihoods
Bridges to Prosperity
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $300K
Bridges to Prosperity designs, builds, and supports the construction of durable and environmentally-sustainable bridges to connect isolated communities to the rest of the world.
Livelihoods
GGEM Farming
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2024
Amount Invested: $400K
GGEM helps farmers in Malawi grow their yield and improve their crop quality through training, infrastructure development, and input loans, and then provides farmers with an ethical marketplace to purchase the harvest at a fair price.
Livelihoods
Kwanza Tukule
Africa | Equity
Years Invested: 2022, 2023
Amount Invested: $250K
Kwanza Tukule is creating a more efficient and effective supply chain for microentrepreneurs in low income areas.
MDaaS
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $100K
MDaaS builds modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers designed for clinically-underserved communities, with the goal of providing convenient, high-quality, and affordable healthcare across Africa.
Livelihoods
myAgro
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $200K
myAgro provides mobile layaway services, delivery, and agricultural training to smallholder farmers to move them out of poverty.
Livelihoods
One Acre Fund
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2020
Amount Invested: $135K
One Acre Fund supplies financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity.
Livelihoods
Rashak Agro
Africa | Profit-Share
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $250K
Rashak provides smallholder farmers across Nigeria with agricultural inputs (e.g., fertilizer, seed, technical and financial assistance) and then purchases the harvest from their farmers at a fair price to aggregate supply for local manufacturers.
Livelihoods
Bridges to Prosperity
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $300K
Bridges to Prosperity designs, builds, and supports the construction of durable and environmentally-sustainable bridges to connect isolated communities to the rest of the world.
Loan repaid in full and renewed.
Livelihoods
GGEM Farming
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $250K
GGEM helps farmers in Malawi grow their yield and improve their crop quality through training, infrastructure development, and input loans, and then provides farmers with an ethical marketplace to purchase the harvest at a fair price.
Loan repaid in full and renewed.
Livelihoods
myAgro
Africa | Debt
Years Invested: 2020-2021
Amount Invested: $1.125M
myAgro provides mobile layaway services, delivery, and agricultural training to smallholder farmers to move them out of poverty.
Loans repaid in full and renewed.
Livelihoods
One Acre Fund
Africa | Debt
Years Invested: 2016-2018
Amount Invested: $2.8M
One Acre Fund supplies financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity.
Loans repaid in full and renewed.
Health
Possible Health
Nepal | Debt
Year Invested: 2016
Amount Invested: $130K
Possible Health works to address evidence, implementation, and policy gaps in the equity, quality, and accessibility of healthcare.
Loan repaid in full.
Livelihoods
ZUMI
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $125K
ZUMI empowers female micro-entrepreneurs with commerce, logistics, and financial services to start and scale their apparel businesses.
Wrote off ~90% of loan as company wound down.
Fund Investments
Other
Calvert Impact Capital
Global | Debt
Year Invested: 2020
Amount Invested: $250K
Calvert Impact Capital helps all types of investors and financial professionals invest in solutions that people and the planet need.
Livelihoods
Elevar Equity
India | Equity
Years Invested: 2018, 2022
Amount Invested: $1M
Elevar Equity invests in entrepreneurs that fuel the economic resilience and vibrancy of low income communities.
Livelihoods
Global Partnerships
Africa | Equity
Year Invested: 2018
Amount Invested: $150K
Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund is an early-stage impact-first fund manager dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty.
Livelihoods
Lendable
Global | Debt
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $750K
Lendable provides capital to emerging market fintech companies and provides technology, asset management, and advisory services to leading investors.
Livelihoods
Menterra
India | Equity
Year Invested: 2024
Amount Invested: $200K
Menterra invests in social enterprises across India addressing the biggest development challenges in agriculture, health, and education.
Livelihoods
NESsT
LatAm | Debt
Year Invested: 2020
Amount Invested: $500K
NESsT invests in social enterprises that generate dignified jobs for people most in need.
Other
Open Road
Global | Debt
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $500K
Open Road offers fast, flexible, and affordable financing to impact-first companies across geographies and sectors to address discrete, unforeseen financing gaps.
Livelihoods
Ventures Platform
Africa | Equity
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $500K
Ventures Platform invests in founders who are building companies that democratize prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, and improve livelihoods in Africa.
Livelihoods
Women’s World Banking
Global | Equity
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $650K
Women’s World Banking Asset Management invests in innovative inclusive finance companies in emerging markets, and guides them to serve and hire more women.
Other
Calvert Impact Capital
Global | Debt
Year Invested: 2020
Amount Invested: $250K
Calvert Impact Capital helps all types of investors and financial professionals invest in solutions that people and the planet need.
Loan repaid in full.
Livelihoods
West Africa Bright Future
Africa | Debt
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $350K
The West Africa Bright Future Fund invests in SMEs and MFIs in fragile West Africa – Mali, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and Guinea – with an explicit focus on job creation, increased incomes, and social resilience of women and youth.
Loan repaid early and in full as fund wound down.
United States
International
Direct Investments
Gender Equity
First Women’s Bank
USA | Cash Deposit
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $250K
First Women’s Bank is the only women-founded, women-owned, and women-led commercial bank in the US on a mission to elevate the role of women within the economy.
Other
Fortune Society
USA | Debt
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $100K
Fortune Society helps individuals with justice involvement rebuild their lives through innovative services, advocacy, and the development of permanent supportive housing. This loan is part of an initiative organized by FJC, a foundation of philanthropic funds.
Other
Community Housing Capital
USA | Debt
Year Invested: 2018
Amount Invested: $500K
Community Housing Capital aims to facilitate the creation and preservation of affordable housing.
Loan repaid in full.
Fund Investments
Other
City Light
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $500K
City Light invests in scalable companies that have a meaningful impact in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.
Racial Equity
Collab Capital
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $500K
Collab Capital invests financial, human, and network capital to effectively support, grow, and sustain Black-owned innovative businesses.
Racial Equity
Dearfield Fund
USA | Debt
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $250K
The Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth provides up to $40K in down-payment assistance to first-time Black and African American homebuyers to help build generational wealth.
Racial Equity
Illumen Capital
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2019
Amount Invested: $500K
Illumen Capital invests in and delivers evidence-based bias-reduction training and coaching to fund managers with a track record of impact and financial performance.
Racial Equity
Kapor Capital
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $750K
Kapor Capital invests in early stage companies committed to closing gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low income communities and/or communities of color.
Gender Equity
MSquared
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2023
Amount Invested: $625K
MSquared is a women-owned real estate impact platform focused on creating mixed-income projects that promote affordability, sustainability, and diversity.
Racial Equity
Project Equity
USA | Debt
Year Invested: 2024
Amount Invested: $400K
Project Equity supports small businesses throughout the US that want to transition to employee ownership with capital to finance the transition and transaction.
Racial Equity
Raven Indigenous
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $400K
Raven Indigenous Capital Partners invests patient capital into innovative, scalable, and purpose driven Indigenous social enterprises that are helping to build a renewed and sustainable Indigenous economy in Canada and the United States.
Gender Equity
Rhia Ventures
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2021
Amount Invested: $500K
Rhia Capital invests in early- and growth-stage companies that are driving innovation, access, and equity in reproductive and maternal health.
Gender Equity
Springbank Collective
USA | Equity
Year Invested: 2022
Amount Invested: $550K
Springbank invests in early-stage companies that are accelerating solutions for women and families and building the infrastructure for a more equal future.
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