Case Studies

The fund is focused on promoting a Racial Equity and Social Lens. To help close the racial equity gap, they seek investments that create an inclusive economy and financial impact on people of color’s wealth. The funding has been allocated to high-impact treasury investments in minority-owned and focused banks, credit unions, and Black and Latinx-led venture capital funds.

The Matriarch Revolutionary Fund (MRF) is the first social impact integrated capital investment fund that is led and managed by and for Indigenous women across the United States. Their investment products are designed to support businesses that have strong female leadership, promote gender diversity and equality, and provide opportunities for Indigenous women to advance their businesses.

Since 2008, LabourNet has focused on finding full-time, contract, apprenticeships, managed services and gig work for people across India. They are committed to increasing underrepresented women’s economic participation with a number of inclusive hiring and workplace practices.

Graca Machel Trust, with their Afrishela Fund I, is driving innovative blended capital to early growth stage women-owned and led businesses aligned with the Trust’s current programmatic interventions, research focus areas, and network activity to build a track record in key priority sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, education, health, renewable energy, trade and financial services.

Aruwa, one of fewer than ten female-founded and -led investment houses on the entire African continent, is a gender lens fund with an active gender lens integrated into its portfolio and management team. Aruwa bridges the gap between venture capital and private equity for women-owned or female-focused businesses in Africa, targeting investments in sectors such as healthcare, fintech, renewable energy, and essential consumer goods.

Supply Change Capital invests at the nexus of two factors that are transforming the food economy: climate and culture. They focus their investments on specific outcomes that build intergenerational wealth in diverse communities, reduce the impact of the food system on climate, and build healthier communities.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has a commitment that all of its activities and resources must be utilised for meaningful progress toward its mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.

CDPQ’s $250M PE/VC fund was set up to bridge capital gaps faced by fast-growing and diverse-led/owned enterprises that are seeking scaling-up/growth capital, networks, partnerships and wider support.