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Alden Impact Capital AG

Switzerland

Alden Impact Capital AG is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and direct investments with a focus on impact investing. It seeks to invest in startup ventures and other private companies. The firm primarily invests in biotechnology companies in life sciences and healthcare. It invests in Sub Saharan Africa with a focus on agribusiness activities of food production processing and cold chain distribution.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Clean Tech Open

United States of America

The Cleantech Open is a not for profit organization that runs the world s largest accelerator for cleantech startups. Our mission is to find fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today s most urgent energy environmental and economic challenges.There mission is to find fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today's most urgent energy environmental and economic challenges. We provide the infrastructure expertise and strategic relationships that turn clever ideas into successful global cleantech companies. Fueled by a global network of more than 2000 volunteers and sponsors the Cleantech Open unites the public and private sectors in a shared vision for making the cleantech sectors a thriving economic engine around the world.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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CRE Venture Capital

CRE invests in and partners with visionary entrepreneurs in technology-enabled startup companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. CRE bring the full arsenal of the capital, global relationships, and experience to position the teams they work with for outsized success.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Southern Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Enablis

Canada

Enablis works in developing countries to support early stage entrepreneurs and reduce poverty through job creation. Enablis facilitates entrepreneurial skills development access to finance professional networking and mentoring to ensure economic stimulation and entrepreneurial sustainability.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: Ghana

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Founder.org

United States of America

FOUNDER.org is an investor and company building program for student entrepreneurs at leading universities around the world. FOUNDER.org intense 8D Company Building Program fast tracks your team through the challenges of building a high impact company while you re doing it. And they provide you with the funding you need to get started. FOUNDER.org hands on transformative experience is designed to increase your odds of survival and to help you grow your new venture faster and take it further than you ever imagined. FOUNDER.org is a team of serial Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who have built billion dollar companies.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Global Innovation Fund

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela

The Global Innovation Fund invests in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world. Through the grants and risk capital they support breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from social enterprises for profit firms non profit organisations international organisations researchers and government agencies.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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iStarter

Italy

iStarter is an innovative business incubator/accelerator that provides cutting-edge coaching to startuppers through its unrivalled network of partners and senior advisors. They strive to connect ideas with high potential to the global market for opportunities and investments.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Community Development

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Levantine & Co

Levantine & Co is a financial services firm with a business strategy that utilizes a sustainable framework built on the IFC Performance Standards. We leverage our extensive knowledge access to capital network of key relationships and unique advisory approach to spearhead our services to ultimately secure sustainable financing and unlockour client s full potential. Levantine & Co secures sustainable financing for companies through an advisory relationship that helps structure and position our clients to meet and surpass the decision making criteria of sustainable investors.The firm provides confidential unconflicted and strategic advisory services to entrepreneurs family offices and SMEs looking to grow or restructure their businesses towards sustainability. Investors appreciate our ability to act swiftly and value our ability to handle the heavy lifting inherent in the services that we offer. This enables our clients to remain focused on the daily demands of running their companies. Ultimately Levantine & Co. seeks to guide its clients through the complex process of raising capital whilst satisfying the decision making criteria of sustainable investors.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation

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Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures

United States of America

O Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors innovators and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence O Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world changing technologies on the map. OATV is our effort to bring the legacy resources and relationships of O Reilly to each investment we make.

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Geography: United States of America

Impact: Capacity Building

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Purpose Capital

Canada

Purpose Capital works with enterprises investors and governments to design and realize solutions that address humanity s most pressing challenges. Purpose Capital work with investors individuals families foundations financial institutions and their advisors to design and deploy customized impact investment strategies spanning sectors asset classes and regulatory regimes. Purpose Capital also work with governments and sector leading organizations to develop new products platforms and markets for compelling financial returns and measureable social impact.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: Canada

Impact: Access to Financial Services