impact investing

Find out who won awards for impact investing, ESG and sustainability, voted on by readers of Private Debt Investor, PERE, Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.

LeapFrog, which received an investment from Temasek last year, has been busy building its investor relations bench.

The firm’s early-stage ag investments could expand from Sub-Saharan countries without upper-middle income status into other regions of Africa, says chief executive Daniel Hulls.

Element Markets, a portfolio company TPG acquired last year, has combined with Bluesource to offer voluntary and mandatory carbon offsets in North America.

Verdane has backed an electric vehicle charging services company that ‘is not strategic for the really large corporate actors in this space to own’.

TZP Group and Nuveen worked together to recapitalise a secondhand discount retailer that aims to support local charities.

After raising some seed capital, the impact verification outfit is building its European presence.

Founded by a JPMorgan alum in 2007, Creation Investments Capital Management focuses on financial inclusion in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

The asset management giant was originally targeting $400m for its first private equity impact fund.

Florida Retirement System has previously invested in TPG Rise Funds and Summa’s second fund.