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Awethu Project

South Africa

Over the last seven years we ve grown from a R60K startup to a company with hundreds of millions of Rands to invest in our vision. We've incubated hundreds of entrepreneurs and positively impacted the lives of thousands of people. We've been recognised internationally by the Echoing Green Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative and locally by institutions such as Discovery and the South African Government and individuals such as Archbishop Tutu and Nku Nyembezi Heita.We flexibly combine ideas people and capital to build the fast growing SMEs South Africa needs.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: South Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Bain Capital Double Impact

United States of America

Bain Capital Double Impact will pursue investments where we can utilize our unique capabilities to help mission driven companies to scale and to drive meaningful change. Impact investing has the power to bring the innovation expertise and resources from business to social causes.Our goal is to enable the next phase of financial and impact growth for our partner companies which are solving critical social problems and doing so profitably. We believe that our value added approach experienced team and broad platform expertise will help our partner companies to thrive.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Enviu

Netherlands

Enviu starts world changing companies which aim to solve social and ecological issues in a sustainable way. Companies aimed at creating environmental and social impact. The products and services of their start ups aim to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible in a sustainable way.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: Kenya

Impact: Capacity Building

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ICCO Investments

Netherlands

The ICCO Cooperative has over ten years of experience in deploying different investment instruments to contribute to its core mission poverty alleviation and social justice. The strategy of the ICCO Cooperative is focused in two main areas 'Securing sustainalbe livelihood' and 'Empowering justice for all'. With their investment instruments they try to leverage the work they do with partners in their Grants based programs. By offering a range of financing instruments ICCO is also able to support their partners in all phases of their development until they are financially stable and have access to mainstream financial markets and systems.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Impact Investing Australia

Impact Investing Australia is an independent organisation dedicated to growing the opportunities for investments that deliver positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.Our vision is for a healthy equitable and prosperous Australia supported by a dynamic market for impact investing that expands opportunities and creates innovative solutions to pressing societal challenges.From 2017 our work is focusing exclusively on the development of two flagship market building initiatives Impact Capital Australia and the Impact Investment Readiness Growth Grant.Between 2014 2016 Impact Investing Australia was dedicated to the delivery of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing s strategy to grow the market for impact investing in and from Australia. Our work focused on developing market infrastructure growing participation and influencing policy.

Type: Corporate

Geography: Australia

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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MIF Ventures

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Europe

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

United States of America

The Rockefeller Brothers fund was founded in 1940 by the sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to help advance social change that contributes to a more just sustainable and peaceful world. Since 2010 RBF mobilized resources beyond grantmaking capital aligning endowed assets with its programmatic mission. Combating climate change sits at the heart of RBF. The RBF began a two step process to divest from fossil fuels in September 2014.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Community Development

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Sarona Asset Management

Netherlands

With a rich history stretching back to 1953 Sarona has extensive experience investing in Frontier and Emerging Markets. Our ambition is to use this experience to deliver top quartile returns by investing growth capital in private equity funds and companies that benefit local communities and the environment. We focus on small to mid market companies providing goods and services to meet the growing needs of the rising middle class in these markets.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Income/Productivity Growth

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Transist

Transist (Tech Impact) is a social enterprise incubator based in Shanghai China. Our mission is to create find and scale companies that lie at the intersection between technology and social enterprise.

Type: Investor Network

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