impact investing

New Private Markets is compiling a list of every known investor in every fund in the Impact 50 – including pension funds, development banks, family offices, foundations, corporates and insurance companies – and some names are cropping up again and again.

This year, 10 firms have joined the Impact 50 for the first time, accounting for a diverse selection of strategies and geographies.

The Impact 50 is our proprietary list of the world's largest managers of private markets impact capital, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other strategies.

Impact Frontiers, which now stewards the five dimensions of impact and ABC classification system, is inviting feedback from investors, standard setters and researchers.

The superannuation fund has allocated $75m to the TowerBrook Delta, and will also co-invest in wind turbine serving company Liftwerx.

Forbion, a life sciences venture capital firm, has held a first close on €75m for Forbion BioEconomy Fund I, which is targeting €150m.

The latest investments bring the total amount raised to £210m.

The DFI has committed £408m to private funds in the last year, according to its annual report.

Spanish GP Creas reached a first close after a €20m commitment from the European Investment Fund.

Unusual and innovative structures by TPG, Legal & General, Blue Earth and ILX reduce the risk inherent in emerging markets for commercial institutional investors and help them capture more of the upside.