This month, Impact Engine was named the #1 impact investing firm by Real Leaders®!
“Impact Engine is honored to be among the remarkable group of impactful organizations recognized by Real Leaders,” says IE CEO Jessica Droste Yagan. “From the beginning, our team has committed to investing in business models that align financial and impact returns such that there is minimal or no trade-off between the two. We’re honored that Real Leaders has recognized our firm as the number one impact investing company. It’s truly a testament to the hard work and collaboration of our team, investors, and community of leading-edge thinkers in the impact space.”
IE Partner & Chief Investment Officer Priya Parrish recently appeared on Fintech TV with Jeff Gitterman to share our approach to impact investing, our three key impact themes, and why experience investing in both funds and companies directly provides a unique vantage point. "We see everything," she says. "We do 5-10 calls a week with other private equity and impact and venture capital funds, but we're also meeting with companies. So we're hearing multiple angles."
The Stanford Graduate School of Business recently profiled Impact Engine as a case study in their series on equity fluency and DEI-related opportunities. They write: "Constantly raising the bar for themselves and the industry as a whole was ingrained in [Impact Engine's] ethos. Indeed, the women-founded, women-led, and women-governed impact investment firm, which was founded as one of the first impact-oriented accelerators in the U.S., had grown to include early stage and private equity investments—all optimizing financial and social returns." The 10 page profile, written by Stanford lecturer and Brazen Impact cofounder Jaclyn Foroughi, is available for Stanford GSB students, faculty, and staff at this link.
TBLI Group | Master Class: Why an impact fund of funds will increase your returns [62 Minute Video]
IE VP Ander Iruretagoyena writes: I really liked this webinar because in a very succinct, data driven, and compelling way the panelists explain the rationale for one of the strategies we offer here at Impact Engine. Investors often shy away from fund of funds given their perceived complexity as well as the idea of "paying double fees". This webinar does an excellent job at disproving both of these myths as well as demonstrates how gaining exposure to private markets via a Fund of Funds model both reduces volatility and increases average returns. due to the benefits of diversification as well as the boost that comes from having experts do the manager selection. It is cool to see that same rationale be applied to not only financial returns but also social ones. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
Insight Partners | Scaling innovative solutions in women’s health with software
IE Investment Analyst Anna Reilly writes: I love staying up to date on the latest investments in female-focused healthcare! This piece written by Insight Partners is not only interesting and informative because it lists the latest deals, trends, and innovations, but also because it provides the history and foundation of the femtech industry, which is necessary to understand why healthcare inequity “creates poor health outcomes for women, but also considerable costs to our healthcare system."
Climb Credit, the the fair and inclusive student lending platform, is deploying a new generation of their Climb Credit Score® algorithm integrating Scienaptic AI. This new addition to their Loan Origination System toolkit will help Climb Credit process credit decisions more rapidly, for both students and schools.
SupplyShift, the global supply chain analysis platform, has been acquired by Sphera, a leading provider of ESG and risk management analysis software. "We are excited to join the Sphera family and take data availability to a new level through the combination of Sphera’s industry-leading ESG data and SupplyShift’s Scope 3 data collection abilities," says SupplyShift Founder and CEO Alex Gershenson.
SER Capital Partners, an environment-geared fund investment of ours, announced a strategic minority investment from Capricorn Investment Group’s Sustainable Investors Fund. SER's capital commitments in the fields of electric vehicle charging, battery storage, and the clean energy economy spanning the last four years have totaled in excess of $500 million. Capricorn currently lists over $9 billion AUM.
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