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Acumen America

United States of America

Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies leaders and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.Acumen was incorporated on April 1 2001 with seed capital from the Rockefeller Foundation Cisco Systems Foundation and three individual philanthropists. Our desire was to transform the world of philanthropy by looking at all human beings not as distant strangers but as members of a single global community where everyone had the opportunity to build a life of dignity.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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AgDevCo

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

AgDevCo is a social impact investor and project developer operating exclusively in the agriculture sector in Africa. Our mission to reduce poverty and improve food security is underpinned by our belief that the best route out of poverty for the majority of Africa's rural poor is the development of profitable agriculture with strong links to markets.We invest in socially responsible businesses operating across the supply chain which have the potential to make a major positive social impact in their communities. In addition to direct investment we provide on the ground technical support and specialist agricultural advice to management teams.Currently working in six African countries and with plans to expand into a further four we are raising agricultural productivity increasing incomes creating employment opportunities and in doing so helping to reduce food insecurity hunger and under nutrition in rural communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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AgFunder

United States of America

AgFunder is the premier online investment platform for accredited investors to invest in promising agriculture and agriculture technology startups. AgFunder is an investment marketplace for the $6.4 trillion global agriculture market. We are building the financial infrastructure to feed the world and fix a broken food system. AgFunder presents curated and vetted opportunities throughout the value chain including production processing services and agtech. We have over $1.3B in our deal flow pipeline and our members include PE firms Family offices Silicon Valley VCs strategics as well as accredited investors with over $1.5B in investable capital. Since February 2014 listed companies have raised over $15M in closed and committed capital. AgFunder has been in Forbes TechCrunch CNN Money Reuters CNBC Huffington Post Agri Investor Private Wealth and Modern Farmer. Our CEO was named by Forbes in their 2014 list of Up and Comers in the agriculture sector.

Type: Investor Network

Geography:

Impact: Employment Generation

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AgTech Innovation Partners

AF

Meeting society s growing food needs while improving the sustainability of our global food system s land water and energy use will require continuous improvements in food and agricultural technology. AgTech Innovation Partners seeks to transform our global food system by supporting technology innovation from farm to fork. AgTech Innovation Partners is a management and advisory team supporting early stage food and agricultural technology companies in North America. The Partners support entrepreneurs who are developing solutions to improve farm productivity increase agricultural sustainability modernize supply and distribution chains and create innovative new high value products. The Partners believe that innovations in ag and food technology have the ability to transform our food systems improving the productivity efficiency and sustainability of current agricultural practices while also improving the health and well being of our population and our planet.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Asia

Impact: 0

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Aspada Investment Advisors

India

Aspada provides patient capital to entrepreneurs reinventing fundamental services for hundreds of millions of Indians. Our experienced cross functional team manages over $100 million in capital and has a demonstrated track record of success in identifying investing in and exiting early stage investments in India.The Aspada approach has been to invest in home grown business models that address the unmet needs of the middle of the pyramid by adopting a full stack approach. Our portfolio of 14 investments across agriculture healthcare financial services education logistics employability and technology led SME enablement platforms showcases Aspada s commitment to solving India s hardest problems in a capital efficient manner at scale.In addition Aspada acts as the investment advisor to the SONG Fund (an acronym for the fund's LP Soros Economic Development Fund Omidyar Network and Google)

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Education

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Australian Pastoral Fund

Australia

Australian Pastoral Funds Management Pty Ltd (APFM) a fund management entity has been formed to assemble investor capital and acquire and operate large scale livestock (cattle and sheep) properties producing mainstream pastoral products for both the domestic and export markets of Australia. This company is an association between Alan Hayes and his family Pitt Capital Partners (a subsidiary of the ASX listed Washington H Soul Pattinson Group with a capitalisation in excess of A$3.0bn) Equilibrium Capital LLC and a number of private individuals. APFM is based in Brisbane Queensland Australia.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Oceania

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Avrio Capital

Canada

Avrio Capital was established in 2006 to identify and invest in innovative food and agriculture companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability. Avrio is a hands-on investor who works alongside of its portfolio companies to provide the support and resources needed to transform emerging companies into successful globally competitive enterprises.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Barnraiser

Barnraiser is a community for the millions of us who align with health and sustainability They can exert trheir influence as passionate consumers and grow good food by connecting with modern-day heroes, sharing their inspirational stories, and collectively funding their success.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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BlueOrange Sustainable Capital

BlueOrange Sustainable Capital seeks to invest in opportunities in a diversified set of emerging market companies that deliver both strong risk adjusted returns and social impact aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).BlueOrange supports companies that foster inclusive and sustainable growth driven by strong risk adjusted returns.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Income/Productivity Growth

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Boulder Food Group

BOULDER – Local venture capitalist and natural foods executive Tom Spier has formed Boulder Food Group LP, an entity that has so far raised $32.8 million for a new pooled investment fund. The capital raise showed up in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing as part of a $55 million offering by Boulder Food Group. Four investors have participated in the round according to the filing.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Chobani Food Incubator

Chobani Food Incubator helps nurture, support, and celebrate today’s entrepreneurs who have founded young and growing companies inspired by their same beliefs, so that together they can positively shape the food industry of tomorrow.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Circles

United States of America

CircleUp helps consumer entrepreneurs and investors do what they do better.

Type:

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Crowdfooding

Crowdfooding is the world's first collaborative platform for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2014 in San Francisco at Crowdfooding we re passionate about bringing together food entrepreneurs passionate foodies and established food organizations to foster food innovation through meaningful collaborations. We help food and drink startups build strategic commercial partnerships with other organisations and leverage our platform to market their business while empowering established food organisations and corporations to enable meaningful collaboration with qualified startups.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Dalberg Global Development Advisors

United States of America

Dalberg Global Development Advisors is a strategic advisory firm that works to raise living standards in developing countries and address global challenges. The company has completed more than 1000 projects in more than 80 countries for both public and private institutions. Dalberg was founded in 2001 and has rapidly grown to 14 offices.

Type: Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Dig Eat All

Spain

DIG EAT ALL brings together the approaching worlds of gastronomy and digital technology. This fusion drives innovation in the way they engage with food and with each other, inspiring a revolution with a truly global impact.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Spain

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Ecosystem Integrity Fund

United States of America

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund ( EIF ) is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability.The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incremental improvements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better more efficient more functional less toxic less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact:

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Energy Excelerator

United States of America

Energy Excelerator is a startup program dedicated to helping solve the world's energy challenges starting in Hawaii. Energy Excelerator help innovative companies succeed in Hawaii and the Asia Pacific with funding strategic relationships and a vibrant ecosystem. Energy Excelerator is primarily funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research who made a $30M commitment to our program in 2013 U.S. Department of Energy and the corporate partners. Energy Excelerator focus on commercializing innovative solutions to the energy water transportation cybersecurity and agriculture challenges.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Energy

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EquityEats

EquityEats solely focused on the food and beverage service industry because it is perfectly positioned to benefit from equity crowdfunding. Traditionally restaurant investing has been a closed door activity for both individuals and for restauranteurs. They democratizes capital accessibility by enabling the masses to participate.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Ethiopian Agriculture Transformation Agency (ATA)

Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (the Agency or ATA) is an initiative of the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) which was established by federal regulation in January 2011. The primary aim of the Agency is to promote agricultural sector transformation by enhancing and supporting existing structures of government private sector and other non governmental partners to address systemic bottlenecks in the system and deliver on a priority national agenda to achieve growth and food security. The ATA focuses on a set of high priority program areas.

Type: Government

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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FamilyFarmed

United States of America

FamilyFarmed.org is a non-profit organization committed to expanding the production, marketing and distribution of locally grown and responsibly produced food, in order to enhance the social, economic, and environmental health of our communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Farm2050

Farm2050 is a collective of diverse partners - a complete ecosystem - that is committed to advancing the future of food through supporting AgTech entrepreneurs and startups.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Farmers Funding

Netherlands

Farmers Funding is a website aimed to broaden funding for the food and agri sector. Besides banks, there are numerous other funding. These include crowd funding, leasing, investment, subsidies, pension funds, etc. This platform is the platform where all funding for now and substitution future are combined.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Netherlands

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Fintrac

Fintrac, a woman-owned international development company, develops agricultural solutions to end hunger and poverty. For more than 20 years, they have worked with local and global partners to increase incomes and improve livelihoods for the world’s most vulnerable farmers and communities in Africa, Asia, Latin American, and the Caribbean. By teaching farmers proven technologies and practices, they are increasing yields, improving nutrition, and strengthening food security.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Africa

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Flat World Partners

United States of America

Flat World Partners is a next generation investment advisory firm solely focused on impact investments. We take a global active and transparent approach to our investment strategy seeking out the best in class opportunities that meet the needs of clients. We work alongside your investment team to build customized impact portfolios. We re constantly talking to the impact market conducting due diligence on managers products and direct investments to help you drive your business for generations to come.Our Mission is to drive more capital into impact investments. We believe we can achieve this by serving as a bridge between existing gaps in the market. We understand the challenges that you face when evaluating impact and hope to stand alongside you in achieving your impact goals.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Education

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Food Angels

Food Angels is a group of accredited angel investors who invest in early-stage food, beverage or food-tech companies in the US.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Food-X

Founded in 2014, FOOD-X is the first international business accelerator program focused on launching food-related ventures with a multi-stage evergreen fund SOSventures. FOOD-X partners with early-stage food entrepreneurs to bring out their best potential and take them and their products and services successfully to market in areas of food & beverage, health, and environment that are ripe for disruption.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact:

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Fund The Food

The Kirchner Food Fellowship is an opportunity for an elite group of student leaders to be engaged in investment decisions on agriculture oriented businesses with ground breaking technologies which can provide long term sustainable solutions both environmentally and economically to global food security. Kirchner Food Fellows will also receive high level mentoring from networks of investors from across North America. Working directly with our leadership team and our network of thought leaders The Kirchner Food Fellows will engage in a series of face to face and on line educational experiences using learning paradigms that expose them to practical real world issues of seed stage and early stage investment. As the 16 week program advances the Fellows will be given full discretion to make real investments in real companies based on a predetermined investment mandate.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Fundafeast

United States of America

PieShell emboldens and empowers food and beverage entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to bring new ideas to life. But PieShell is more than just a crowdfunding platform. We re a community of people who are passionate about food innovation and giving.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Golden Mean Capital Partners

United States of America

Golden Mean Capital Partners is a privately owned investment company founded to build vibrant agribusiness ecosystems across Africa. Golden Mean invests in and supports extraordinary entrepreneurs with the potential passion and creativity needed to transform agricultural industries. Golden Mean s targeted investments operate across the agribusiness value chain they are complementary and together they work to address the many challenges of African agriculture.

Type: Corporate

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Good Food Business Accelerator

he Good Food Business Accelerator gets farm and food businesses ready for prime time, giving them the skills to launch or scale up. This fellowship program for food and farm entrepreneurs is based at 1871, Chicago’s center of innovation. Fellows are paired with industry-leading mentors and are connected to potential customers and investors. This is the nation’s first business accelerator focused on building supply chains for sustainable local food.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact:

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IDEO.org

United States of America

IDEO.org works with nonprofits social enterprises and foundations to design solutions for social impact around the world.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Incofin

Belgium

Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people who live in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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KfW Development Bank

Germany

KfW is one of the world s leading promotional banks. With its decades of experience KfW is committed to improving economic social and ecological living conditions all around the world on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal states. To do this it supplied funds totalling EUR 74.1 billion in 2014 alone and of this 36 % went into measures for protecting the environment and combating climate change.

Type: DFI

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Khosla Ventures

United States of America

Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies. The firm was founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla co founder of Sun Microsystems. With over four billion dollars under management the firm focuses on a broad range of areas including consumer enterprise education advertising financial services semiconductors health big data agriculture/food sustainable energy and robotics. Khosla Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park Calif.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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National Investment Bank

Ghana

Currently 70% of the Bank s portfolio is made up of loans to the Ghanaian private sector. NIB is a major lender to the manufacturing building and construction and agro processing sectors as well as the service industry.NIB now operates as a universal bank focusing on development/commercial banking activities. The Bank has undergone management institutional and financial restructuring which has strengthened the organization and now has 46 branches and 3 agencies nationwide.NIB has in the past participated in foreign lines of credit which were administered by Bank of Ghana to meet term loan and working capital needs of the Bank s customers.We are also one of the designated financial institutions which sources funds from Export Trade Agriculture and Industrial Development Fund (EDAIF) for on lending to exporters as Term and Working capital loans.

Type: Bank

Geography: Ghana

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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New Orleans Food & Farm Network (NOFFN)

An economy that expands residents’ self-reliance through food production, uses land responsibly and sustainably, helps farmers make a living, and makes the needed connections among people, farms, and food. NOFFN is developing tools and coordinated action to support farming in greater New Orleans.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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New York Angels

United States of America

New York Angels is a member-led organization committed to finding, funding and mentoring great young companies from pitch through successful exit. Our 100+ members are entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. We come from a wide array of industry backgrounds and together create an extensive network of entrepreneurial support. We mentor and coach the entrepreneurs in whom we invest, serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning and fundraising.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Novastar Ventures

Kenya

Novastar is a venture catalyst firm assisting the next generation of exceptional entrepreneurs who are designing and executing innovative business models to profitably serve East Africa s aspiring mass market.These New Stars are the catalysts for innovation accountability efficiency and the accumulation of wealth for the common good.While we are managing a pool of capital we do not think of ourselves primarily as fund managers. The fun and focus of our work is partnering with entrepreneurs to help bring ideas to life and multiply their impact.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Eastern Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Omnivore Partners

India

Omnivore Partners is a venture fund investing in early stage agricultural technology (agtech) companies in India. Omnivore supports agtech businesses that are developing solutions to improve farm productivity support agricultural sustainability and modernize agribusiness supply chains.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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One Acre Fund

Kenya

One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty. Instead of giving handouts they invest in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. One Acre Fund supply a complete service bundle of seeds and fertilizer financing training and market facilitationand deliver these services within walking distance of the 400000 rural farmers they serve.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Pearl Capital Partners

Uganda

We are a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2006. Our investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Our success is derived from working with ambitious management teams providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high growth agribusinesses.Our investments strengthen agricultural sub sectors and use smallholder farmer networks to generate significant income for millions of families across East Africa. The byproduct of this growth is that it creates financial returns for us and our investors.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Rabo Farm

Netherlands

Rabo Farm plays an active role in responding to the challenges facing global food security. With less access to scarce land, water and mineral resources, the agricultural sector will need to double agricultural production in the next 40 years.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Netherlands

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Reimagine Food Prometheus

Spain

Prometheus, the Reimagine Food accelerator will give 20 start-ups each year a three-and-a-half month period of training and networking with leading global entrepreneurs, food companies and funding sources in order to boost their development, as well as a common work area in the Reimagine Food centre at EsadeCreapolis. This area, called Reimagine X, will be a place where food producers, entrepreneurs, investors and chefs can experiment with the restaurant, kitchen and supermarket of the future

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Information

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Root Capital

United States of America

FF REVIEW A social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America. Root Capital seeks to maximize the positive social and environmental impact of their work through a three pronged strategy finance advise and catalyze.

Type: Fund

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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RoyseLaw AgTech Incubator

The RoyseLaw AgTech Incubator is Silicon Valley’s first startup incubator for companies focused on creating new technologies for the agriculture and food industries.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund

The U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund is a public-private partnership between CoBank, Capitol Peak Asset Management (CPAM) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The purpose of the fund is to serve as a new source of capital for rural infrastructure projects, promoting financing for infrastructure projects in rural America and the resulting creation of jobs in rural communities. The fund is designed to complement existing government loan and grant programs by making debt investments in a wide range of projects in America’s rural communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Slow Money NYC

United States of America

Slow Money NYC (SMNYC) is a start-up non-profit membership organization. It is a fiscally-sponsored chapter of a national not-for-profit organization, Slow Money, Inc. The group started in January 2011 and expanded its leadership and activities in 2012. They are run by a group of self-nominated volunteers, most of whom have a passion for and deep experience with the good food movement, food businesses, socially responsible investing, food investing and non-profit management.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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SNV

Netherlands

SNV is an international not for profit development organisation. They believe that no one should have to live in poverty and that all people should have the opportunity to pursue their own sustainable development. We aim to make a lasting difference in the lives of people around the world.Starting out in the Netherlands over 50 years ago we work in over 30 countries in Africa Asia and Latin America. Our global team of advisors work with local partners to equip communities businesses and organisations with the tools knowledge and connections they need to increase their income and gain access to basic services empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and guide their own development.

Type: Fund

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Energy

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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with The Nature Conservancy

United States of America

We are on a mission to identify and recruit entrepreneurs with the most promising ideas for tackling the world's food water and climate challenges.Each year we grant up to $120k in seed funding to 10 companies selected for the cohort. They ll participate in an intense 3 month mentorship driven program model where TNC Techstars and other mentors will do all that we can to help them grow their business.On October 30th the companies will participate in Demo Day to showcase their technologies to potential investors for subsequent funding rounds.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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The Yield Lab

United States of America

The Yield Lab provides new AgTech companies with $100,000 in funding, mentors, and connections supported by an agriculturally solid framework in St. Louis.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Malaysia

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Ultra Capital

Netherlands

Ultra Capital's goal is to help deliver efficiently distributed solutions to critical resource scarcity resulting from the rapid rise in population.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services