The collaboration will offer flexible lending to small and medium-sized enterprises. Access to financing remains one of the most significant obstacles to growth for small businesses in the UK.
Small-scale social impact funds established in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine have built up diverse investment portfolios, offering hope they can scale up further to tackle major local challenges.
The new facility will support clean energy integration across South Africa, create 20,000 jobs and boost the local economy in the country’s Eastern Cape province.
The fund will provide non-dilutive and subordinated risk capital to SMEs operating in the textile and fashion supply chains in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Turkey.
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 new plant will provide 1.4 million people and 36,000 cocoa farmers with an additional income stream. Plus, CC Facility funds three impact initiatives | Stewardship Code
The fund will invest in startups working to support the regeneration of ocean biodiversity and has secured backing from the European Investment Fund and a range of institutional investors.
Six public development banks from Europe and Asia launched the Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0 as the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicked off this week.
The initiative, backed by the Walton and Rockefeller foundations, aims to deploy multiple capital types to scale up support for regenerative practices in the US agricultural heartland.