Acre Impact Capital is poised to launch a series of African export finance debt funds and may open an office in Nairobi following investment into the firm by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Private Infrastructure Development Group’s GuarantCo.
Amsterdam-headquartered private equity firm Goodwell Investments has launched its fifth impact fund with a €50m target for fast-growing African businesses.
A Canadian energy investment firm will try to raise $500m for its seventh fund, says a market source, as it shifts its strategy to carbon capture and storage.
The listed firm raised its largest ever private fund in a year in which the global pandemic focused investors' ESG thinking, says private equity co-head Per Franzen.
French asset manager Tikehau has launched a north American energy transition fund with $300m in commitments from itself and Total, Tikehau co-founder Mathieu Chabran tells New Private Markets.
The firm – an outspoken proponent of sustainability in investment – will try to raise €300m for the Europe-focused vehicle.
PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.
The European firm looks set to join its large buyout peers in establishing a fund line that will seek both financial returns and a positive societal or environmental impact.
After securing a $1bn first close at the end of 2019, the global renewables fund reached an ‘inflection point’ last summer, according to head of renewables David Giordano.
Jaime Prieto, founding partner at the firm, says the growing appetite for private debt funds that meet ESG criteria is 'clearly noticeable'.