ImpactAssets Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing Reveals Growing Market and Innovative Managers
ImpactAssets Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing Reveals Growing Market and Innovative Managers
Industry’s first publicly available, searchable resource of impact investing fund managers sees record number of applicants and assets, reflecting the innovation and exponential growth that the IA 50 has helped to spotlight over the past decade.
Published 02-23-21
Submitted by ImpactAssets
BETHESDA, Md., February 23, 2021 /CSRwire/ ImpactAssets has released the ImpactAssets 50 2021 (IA 50), a free online database for impact investors, family offices, financial advisors and institutional investors that features a diversified listing of private capital fund managers delivering social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.
These are the top 10 rankings of the highest fundraisers for 2020.
Flutterwave
The startup provides digital payments infrastructure and services which enable global merchants, payment service providers, and pan-African banks to accept and process payments across various channels.
It raised a $35M Series-B round led by US venture capital firms Greycroft and eVentures in January 2020. The funding was invested in technology and business development to grow market share in the countries it operates in.
54gene
It raised $15M in a Series A funding
round in April 2020 led by Adjuvant Capital – a life sciences fund backed by the International Finance Corporation, Novartis, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The impact investing community is offering a list of public policy proposals for the incoming presidential administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to facilitate the flow of private capital to public issues, from community reinvestment to environmental protection.
The policy agenda “Private Capital, Public Good: Leveraging Impact Investing to Support a Just & Equitable Recovery” was released Tuesday morning by the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance (USIIA).
The alliance’s objective is to offer specific proposals to “transform community investing to confront inequality,” and to “advance stakeholder capitalism to restore American economic leadership.”
The policy report created with input from about 50 impact investors, community stakeholders, and public policy experts follows a broader 2014 initiative directed to federal policy makers that was led by USIIA’s predecessor organization, says