Our strategic and funding partners

We enable high impact innovations to scale

We have a strong track record of supporting innovations on their pathway to scale, to improve the lives of those underserved and facing vulnerability.

We de-risk innovations to attract future funding

Through our financial and non financial support we de-risk innovations, helping them to attract long term, additional capital. For every $1 invested we have mobilised an additional $8 of investment to the innovations in our portfolio.

We offer patient, flexible capital to meet innovators’ needs

We deploy patient capital as grants, equity and debt, matching the right capital at the right stage to meet innovators’ needs on their pathway to scale.

We bring global expertise

Our highly experienced team is based in London, Nairobi and Singapore. Our strong local presence ensures a deep understanding of local challenges and close engagement with the local ecosystem. Our specialist teams include investment, impact and analytics, learning, strategic communications and partnerships.

We are leaders in measuring impact

Evidence and impact measurement are at the core of our investment decision-making process to ensure we understand the potential impact of our investments. This allows us to identify the most impactful innovations and maximise the social impact of our portfolio.

We generate and share learnings and insights

We have unique, extensive insights from over a decade of investing in innovation, which we actively use to influence others in where and how they invest and scale. We are openly committed to working with partners to learn from successes and failures in scaling innovation.

Who do you partner with?

We work with government development agencies, DFIs, foundations, philanthropies, family offices, and private investors who share our mission.

What do partners gain from collaborating with us?

Pooled capital: Access to a shared platform which pools funding from leading global partners including governments, philanthropies and private investors. This allows you to combine resources, share risk and back innovative solutions more efficiently than acting alone.

Strategic investments in high impact companies and social enterprises: We source and nurture the most promising innovations based on their potential to achieve impact at scale. Your investment ensures you are  backing a portfolio of high-impact solutions improving the lives of underserved and vulnerable people.

Catalytic funding: As a first mover, we de-risk early-stage innovations to position them for scale. We are looking for co-investment to act as a vital catalyst, unlocking significant follow-on capital from private investors and other donors. This leverage multiplies the value of your contribution.

Transferable insights and capacity building: We facilitate knowledge exchange with peers and provide you with deep, transferable insights and learnings from our portfolio's successes and failures. We can help strengthen your team’s technical capacity in impact measurement and evaluation methodologies.