Startup/Scale-up

The Spanish private equity firm specialises in investing in sustainable small and medium-sized businesses. Its impact fund is centred around three core themes: healthier lives, thriving communities, and regenerative planet.

The state investment fund Invest-NL, alongside pension funds and other investment funds, wants to explore the possibility of setting up a fund of funds, which could reach a size of between €600m to €1bn in the not too distant future.

Shell’s societal impact director tells Impact Investor why the oil giant started a just transition-focused impact fund aimed at helping vulnerable households and small businesses navigate the energy transition.

Jinko offers personalised supportive care to people affected by cancer. The company aims to use the funds to grow its partnerships, boost its visibility among patients and healthcare professionals, and enhance its digital application.

Danish company MATR Foods has signed a €20m loan agreement with the European Investment Bank to expand production of its clean label plant-based meat alternatives.

Finalists will be awarded a grant of €50,000, while the winner will get the chance to take part in a year-long venture development programme and receive €100,000.

Save the Children Global Ventures started out as a small-scale Australia-focused operation to show there was an appetite for “child-lens” investing. Now it’s taking advantage of a range of impact investing tools to scale up.

The investment by the alternative business unit of AXA Investment Managers will help healthtech startup Novocuff fund a key clinical trial in the US.

The UK-based sustainable growth equity investment platform focuses on scaling companies that directly contribute to the climate transition.

Government fund Invest-NL is one of the investors backing the Groningen-based company which will use the funds to build a new factory in the northern Dutch city of Delfzijl.