Snehal Shah

Cubera, a longtime secondaries investor, is raising its first primaries impact fund and plans to 'explicitly address and manage the sustainability performance' of all its funds, says Bitterling.

EQT is seeking SBTi validation for portfolio companies’ net zero targets – one of the initiative's criteria for private equity firms’ own net zero targets.

Generation IM’s offshoot Just Climate is preparing to launch multiple thematic funds addressing emerging and developed markets.

Northern Gritstone, chaired by former Goldman Sachs AM chairman Jim O’Neill, aspires to create jobs and wealth in England’s underfunded North with SDG-aligned seed investments.

The IFC says external verification of impact performance data helps its fund selection – but AP4’s Hanna Ideström believes putting capital to work is more important than waiting for perfect data.

LPs are being asked to 'let go of asset buckets' in a bid to make a meaningful impact on carbon emissions.

Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore, will pursue investment in sectors such as supply chains, the future of work and food and agriculture.

LGT offshoot Lightrock has closed a $300m impact fund focused on Latin America with investors from the region.

The Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation has earmarked £100m for social impact funds by 2026 and is open to funds that prioritize impact over returns and vice versa.

The climate-orientated growth investor prefers businesses that are already scaling, like distributed solar company Sun King, managing director Eli Aheto tells New Private Markets.