Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has made three new additions to its investment team, adding a Partner and two Directors, bringing the total to 28 employees worldwide. Blue Horizon’s mission is to accelerate the global transition to a new sustainable food system, including
Summa Equity, which invests in companies solving global challenges, has been certified as a B Corporation, joining a growing group of companies reinventing business by pursuing purpose as well as profit. The certification has been awarded by B Lab, the not-for-profit behind the B Corporation movement. Certified B Corporations are
Credit Suisse and BlackRock have partnered to build the next generation of purpose-driven investments that aim to provide attractive private equity returns in line with the Credit Suisse Supertrends. This will be the first in a series of investment initiatives created for the private wealth market for eligible individual investors.
Lafayette Square has selected Allvue Systems to provide its front-to-back-office solution. Lafayette Square is an impact investment platform founded by Damien Dwin that is working locally to create an inclusive American economy. By investing capital and services locally, Lafayette Square aims to drive impact outcomes specific to the local community.
Norwegian start-up OptoScale has raised EUR4.1 million in a financing round led by SWEN Capital Partners, a specialist in unlisted sustainable investment, with additional participation from the Norwegian fund Skagerak Maturo. OptoScale’s ambition is to use data to improve the real-time monitoring of fish farms and the sustainability of farming
Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma, has acquired Eclipse Advantage (Eclipse), a provider of outsourced supply chain workforce solutions specialising in servicing warehouses and distribution centres across the US and Canada. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2003, Eclipse employs
Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, have made a EUR10 million debt facility commitment to the Advans Group, an international microfinance group serving over one million clients in nine countries: Cambodia, Cameroon, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Myanmar. University of Helsinki is
CDC Group (CDC), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has announced a USD100 million commitment to African Development Partners III, the Fund advised by Development Partners International LLP (DPI) – a leading pan-African private equity firm. CDC’s latest commitment supports ADP III fundraise as it closes at USD900
European Food Tech venture capital firm Five Seasons Ventures has announced the final closing of a EUR180 million second fund. The new Fund II will continue making Series A and B investments into the most promising European Food Tech companies, with an emphasis on fast-growing consumer-focused food with a quantifiable
Capria Ventures, a global investor with the largest network of fund managers in emerging markets, termed the Global South, has released its annual impact report. According to the report, Capria and its affiliated network of funds have invested USD92.1 million as of December 2020, impacting 16.5 million lives across regions
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