For two decades, we have sought out and partnered with innovative emerging managers creating the next generation of impact-oriented investment management companies, culminating in the creation of our GP strategic capital platform: the Sustainable Investors Fund.
The Sustainable Investors Fund (SIF) is a private equity partnership designed to create significant value through ownership and early-stage investment in public and private asset managers who incorporate sustainability as a key driver of investment returns.
We are a long-term, minority, GP stakes investor supporting our partners via continuous engagement on operational support, business development, and sustainability and impact measurement.
SIF has deployed catalytic capital into over a dozen emerging asset management firms aiming to address climate change mitigation, financial inclusion, and sustainable markets.
Aristata is the first commercial litigation funder dedicated to driving positive social and environmental change. It invests in a portfolio of cases across a range of sectors, generating attractive and uncorrelated risk-adjusted returns.
Harness the power of private capital and the law to drive systemic impact at scale across climate change, human rights, equality, and justice reform.
Center Creek uses an innovative approach to affordable real estate rehabilitation and ownership. Its platform of single-family rental homes offers quality affordable housing for residents with a pathway to home ownership plus near-term cash flows and long-term appreciation to investors.
Differentiated approach to affordable housing in the US, focused on single-family vs. multi-family, and improved pathways to homeownership among LMI communities.
Community Investment Management is an impact investment manager providing strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending to underserved borrowers in the US and emerging markets.
Contribute to closing the credit gap for micro, small, and medium enterprises within US and emerging markets.
Ecofin U.S. Renewable Energy Trust is a UK Trust investing in a diversified portfolio of mixed renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure assets, predominantly small and medium solar and wind projects in the US.
Accelerate the deployment of private capital towards the energy transition in a low-cost, highly scalable vehicle.
Inherent Group is an ESG-integrated investment management firm offering opportunistic, impact-oriented, multi-asset and credit strategies across public and private markets.
Demonstrate that leading on material sustainability issues can influence the cost of capital and lead to superior risk-adjusted returns.
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Kepos Capital is a macro-focused firm with a strong risk management program across fund offerings, including a carbon evolution fund focused on diversified, long-only exposure to carbon markets.
Increase financial activity in carbon markets, encouraging higher prices in a supply-constrained market and forcing companies to prioritize carbon abatement.
Lafayette Square is a minority-controlled and led impact focused direct lending platform that uses data analytics to deploy capital and services to growing middle market businesses located in overlooked places.
Close the capital gap for middle-market firms in working-class communities, and improve outcomes, especially uptake of benefits, for low-middle income (LMI) workers at borrowing companies by providing benefits and third-party services.
MSquared is a women-owned real estate impact platform that develops mixed-income, mixed-use projects promoting affordability, sustainability, and inclusion.
Unique approach to addressing the affordability crisis by developing new, sustainable projects while also directing capital to women and minority developers.
Norselab is a Norway-based asset management firm with an impact platform providing a range of financing, including growth equity and credit to companies that have the potential to create large-scale impact in global industries.
Support a shift in global industries where sustainability is at the core of industrial outputs and operations.
Osmosis is a research-based, systematic equity investment manager utilizing proprietary carbon, water and waste data to customize resource-efficient portfolios.
Shift capital flows to resource-efficient companies by enabling access to data and investment products that focus on corporate sustainability practices.
Respira International is a carbon finance business helping institutions mitigate their environmental footprint through high-quality, nature-based offsets and emissions reduction solutions.
Systemic social impact around climate change through support of natural projects and local communities.
SDCL EDGE Acquisition is a SPAC vehicle targeting opportunities focused on energy efficient and decentralized energy solutions for a lower carbon economy.
SPAC structure enables the requisite large-scale financing and access to the public market for companies driving the transition to a lower carbon energy economy.
SER Capital Partners is a sustainable investment firm targeting middle-market businesses within industrial, environmental, and renewable sectors across North America.
Actively contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions while improving energy efficiency in the U.S. and increasing transparency in sustainability reporting.
Sustainable Development Acquisition I Corp is a SPAC vehicle co-led by SIF and Renewable Resources Group. It seeks to acquire a business addressing global challenges within food, agriculture, water, or renewable energy.
SPAC structure allows for convergence of impact, investment thesis, and the scale of public market financing relevant for target sectors.
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SIF’s impact management is aligned with the Operating Principles for Impact Management (OPIM), which was developed by the IFC as a framework for investors to ensure that impact considerations are integrated into portfolio management.
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