Welcome to our new series, "Elevating Impact.” As an investment firm committed to driving positive social and environmental change, we recognize that leaders in the field must be as intentional and focused about driving excellent impact as they are about driving excellent financial returns.
Because we invest in both funds and companies, across early stage and late stage, and across three different impact themes, we are fortunate to see a very wide swath of examples of impact (inclusive of impact management and measurement, environmental-social-governance management, diversity-equity-inclusion, and more) efforts across the industry. We hope it will inspire and inform others in the industry to highlight and share them through this series.
We're excited to share that our Chief Investment Officer and Partner Priya Parrish will be publishing a book as part of Wiley’s famous “Little Book. Big Profits” series!
The book, "The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World", will be released on October 15th.
Readers will explore how and why impact investing has become an essential strategy for retail and institutional investors around the world – and how it can help investors build and manage high-performing portfolios while making a positive difference in the world around them.
Martis, a healthcare-focused fund investment of ours, expanded its operations, opening a third US-based office. The new office in Miami joins existing Washington DC and San Francisco presences. "We are delighted," Barry Uphoff, Martis founder and managing partner says, to hire additional staff and "expand the Martis Capital geographic footprint to Florida."
Pear Suite, the care navigation platform that transforms social determinants of health data into actionable solutions, announced it has hit 100 institutional customers across 24 US states. The milestone translates to 15 connected health plans that cover a combined 10 million patients with a special focus on Medicaid recipients and those in rural communities.