impact investing

Creation’s fifth fund, a private equity strategy ‘improving the lives of the unbanked and underbanked across emerging markets’, has closed at $270m.

Despite many private fund investors slowing their pace of allocations, there are a handful of reasons for those raising impact capital to be more optimistic than their mainstream peers.

The Zurich-based manager will back private equity GPs pursing two separate impact themes.

Fund launch marks a new strategy for impact specialist Bridges, atypically investing outside the UK.

The fund is backed by mainly large utility, energy and industrial companies, including Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Williams Cos and Duke Energy

Incofin has compared the water sector to what the financial inclusion space looked like for impact investors 20 years ago.

New Jersey-based Syridex Bio is financing therapies for diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations.

Following a $500m capital injection by Temasek, LeapFrog has been growing its ranks and is now diversifying beyond its social impact flagship strategy.

Climate will be many LPs' entry point to impact investing; they must know what they are buying.

There is a 'pernicious idea' in VC that taking into consideration the identity and background of portfolio company founders means reprioritising returns, says diversity-focused VC Kapor Capital.