Venture capital

Despite the speculation, impact investing venture capital has matured beyond idealism into a commercially-driven approach that delivers strong returns while scaling urgent solutions, argue Alina Klarner and Christin ter Braak-Forstinger.

The senior partner at Global Ventures and founder of C3 talks to Impact Investor about entrepreneurship in emerging markets and why it has the potential to catalyse systemic change.

The French multi-stage venture capital fund focuses on investing in AI-powered solutions in the consumer, healthcare, financial services and energy sectors.

The company is developing commercial-scale regenerative cell therapy for a range of illnesses, with Parkinson’s disease a priority area of research.

After laying the foundations, the MENA region is building an investable impact economy from the ground up, with resilient businesses that are ready to scale, says Safia Tmiri, executive director at Alfanar.

The Portuguese impact finance and investment app aims to make impact investing accessible to a wider audience through its crowdlending platform.

Impact investor DOEN Participaties has published a study on impact investing in the cultural and creative sectors highlighting the need for alternative financing models beyond subsidies and philanthropy.

IO Biotech will use the venture debt funding provided by the European Investment Bank to develop and market a vaccine to treat melanoma.

Planetary Impact Ventures is one of several investors in UK agritech startup Elaniti, which measures the biological activity within soil to help farmers address issues with soil health and crop outcomes.

The fund, backed by development finance institutions and foundations, supports a new wave of tech-savvy entrepreneurs seeking to build sustainable businesses tackling climate impacts on the continent.