The investment has been made via the jointly developed Growth Impact Fund and will help social enterprise Doing What Really Matters in its aim to support 25% of the UK’s prison population into higher education by 2030.
Goodwell Investments and Alitheia Capital, partners in the fund, say Africa’s impact investment opportunities remain strong, despite global market uncertainties.
Els Boerhof, managing partner and co-owner of Goodwell Investments, approaches impact investing with the same dedication that helped her sail across the Atlantic Ocean twice.
The Southeast Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment Fund, backed by Danish pension fund Pӕdagogernes Pension, has invested in Teky Alpha JSC to support childhood education in Vietnam.
Three Dutch financial institutions are the latest investors in the impact investing cooperative’s Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II, which is set to close later in 2023 with a target of €60m.
The partnership aims to mobilise institutional capital for private sector projects in Africa via the ILX Fund I, which is backed by Dutch pension funds. It will also support a new fund set to be launched in coming months.
The Belgian impact fund manager has secured backing from Degroof Petercam Asset Management and Korys to accelerate its growth and impact in emerging countries.
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