Portfolio

Impact Investing

Portfolio

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Health

MDaaS

Africa | Debt

Year Invested: 2022

Amount Invested: $450K

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.

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One Acre Fund

Africa | Debt

Year Invested: 2020

Amount Invested: $300K

One Acre Fund supplies financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity.

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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.

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Loan repaid in full.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Wrote off ~90% of loan as company wound down.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NESsT

LatAm | Debt

Year Invested: 2020

Amount Invested: $500K

NESsT invests in social enterprises that generate dignified jobs for people most in need.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Loan repaid early and in full as fund wound down.

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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.

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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.

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Community Housing Capital

USA | Debt

Year Invested: 2018

Amount Invested: $500K

Community Housing Capital aims to facilitate the creation and preservation of affordable housing.

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Loan repaid in full.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Gender Equity

MSquared

USA | Equity

Year Invested: 2023

Amount Invested: $425K

MSquared is a women-owned real estate impact platform focused on creating mixed-income projects that promote affordability, sustainability, and diversity.

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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.

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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.

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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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