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Arctaris Capital Partners
United States of America
Arctaris Impact Investors (Arctaris) manages a family of five investment funds focused on inner cities targeted rural communities and Opportunity Zones throughout the United States. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in Boston Arctaris has pioneered an innovative capital structure blending public capital from federal and state government agencies with private capital from institutional investors foundations and CRA banks. As a result each of our funds is designed to provide attractive returns along with the benefit of principal protection while also spurring economic development in underserved communities.
| Type: Fund | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Building Hope
United States of America
Building Hope supports high quality public charter schools in Washington D.C., Florida and other U.S. locations by providing business services, technical and financial assistance for educational facilities. As a non-profit organization, Building Hope supports the expansion of academically successful schools with the capacity to grow their enrollments. This allows Building Hope to catalyze change across the local public education systems by promoting school-centered community revitalization. They believe that excellent charter school programs and facilities will help transform economically depressed neighborhoods into places where children will thrive.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Education |
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CCA Center for Art and Public Life
United States of America
The Center for Art and Public Life facilitates collaborations among CCA students faculty and community partners. The Center provides multi disciplinary platforms for students to use critical and creative problem solving to understand and address needs of local regional and international communities.
| Type: Foundation | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Community Development |
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Clarion Capital Partners
United States of America
Clarion Capital Partners LLC is a private equity investment firm founded in 1999 which seeks to make primarily control private equity investments in a diversified portfolio of middle market companies. The firm focuses on growth companies in industries such as Business Services Healthcare Services Specialty Financial Services Consumer Products Specialty Retail and Media and Entertainment where Clarion can enhance a company s future prospects. We focus on equity investments in the range of $15 $50 million with enterprise values of $50 $200 million. Clarion considers and uses a broad range of investment structures including leverage buyouts growth equity and recapitalizations and tries to apply the most appropriate capital structure to each individual situation.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Crosslink Capital
United States of America
Crosslink Capital is a leading stage-independent venture capital and growth equity firm with over $1.8 billion in assets. Crosslink, which traces its roots back to 1989, was among the first and largest investment firms in the U.S. to integrate public and private growth/technology investing in three families of funds: venture capital funds, long/short hedge funds and a unique hybrid crossover fund. This strategy allows Crosslink to partner with its portfolio companies on a long-term basis. With more than 20 years behind it, Crosslink Capital has invested in over 100 private equity portfolio companies, at the early, mid, and late stages including Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), Omniture (acquired by Adobe Systems), Equinix(NASDAQ:EQIX), Pandora, SeaMicro, Twin Creeks Technologies, Virage Logic (NASDAQ: VIRL), and Yipes (acquired by Reliance Communications).
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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GrowthAfrica
Kenya
We are growth frontiers. GrowthAfrica is the business runway to success for African entrepreneurs seeking a platform for their business take off and for international companies in need of a market landing space and growth hub.We are founded on the desire and mission to proactively contribute to the social and economic growth of African economies through the strengthening of local enterprises. It is a love story to Africa its people and its vast opportunities. We are here to grow Africa through entrepreneurship innovation and business. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Nairobi GrowthAfrica is a leading African impact startup accelerator and business and market consulting company. It has since its inception worked with more than 2000 small East African businesses accelerated close to 100 regional startups and supported more than 120 international companies coming into East Africa.
| Type: Accelerator/Incubator | Geography: | Impact: Capacity Building |
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Mango Fund
Uganda
Mango Fund seeks to encourage economic development in emerging economies by getting behind local entrepreneurs especially those that are performing value addition activities within their countries. The impact investment fund provides both capital and advisory services to bolster sustainable growth of these emerging businesses.
| Type: Fund | Geography: Africa | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Nexus Venture Partners
United States of America
They are the go to thought partners for our entrepreneurs. They operate as one team one firm. Their companies have access to the entire Nexus team in Silicon Valley and India for strategic guidance team building and opening doors to potential customers and partners.We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs in the US and India. Their team comprises ex entrepreneurs who are strong bottom up thinkers and sleeves rolled up operators. With decades of experience in building and funding globally leading companies we manage USD 1.2 billion across funds. Our footprint in world's two leading markets positions us uniquely with global insights and ability to serve entrepreneurs.
| Type: Investment Fund Manager | Geography: United States of America | Impact: Access to Financial Services |
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Potencia Ventures
Brazil
Potencia Ventures backs system changing new business models businesses and institutions to help create the entrepreneurial ecosystem that improves opportunity for the base of the pyramid. We support the emergence of businesses that overcome structural difficulties faced by low income people. Education health and housing are priority sectors. Likewise finance technology and distribution mechanisms are important tools that enable new models to be constructed within these sectors.
| Type: Investor Network | Geography: Europe | Impact: Capacity Building |