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Impact Investing Ecosystem:
Impact Funds

Welcome to our Impact Funds page, which showcases funds focused on creating positive social and environmental change.

Here you can explore the diverse impact areas these funds target and how they contribute to sustainable development and drive positive change in our communities.
Impact funds

Impact Funds

Impact Funds
Description
Impact Priorities
Investments
Stage
Target IRR
Status
Target Size

Aims to future-proof New Zealand’s farmlands by applying large scale regenerative farming techniques to environmentally degraded and financially distressed dairy farmlands.

Regenerative farming

Early-stage, growth

Undisclosed

12-15%

Beginning phase

Undisclosed

Through targeted investment and actions, we're accelerating the development of tools and technology to help New Zealand farmers reduce biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant animals.

We’re scanning the world for solutions and we’re strategically deploying venture capital and catalyst funds to drive affordable and effective solutions for pasture-based farming.

Carbon Emissions

Early stage, growth

Open

The fund is looking to invest across Australasia and the Pacific into early-stage ventures generating market returns and with potential for out-sized and mitigation of climate risk and/or its impact.

Mitigation of climate risk and/or its impact

Early stage, growth

20%+

Open

$50m

Provide low-cost finance to New Zealand’s Community Housing Providers to build new, safe and affordable homes for Kiwis.

Housing, health, wellbeing, social

Early stage, growth

Priced to current interest rate market with a margin above the corresponding swap rate

Open

$500m

Guided by values grounded in equality, environmental, societal and governance responsibility, Even Capital are the only female-founded, female-funded, and female-focused growth stage venture capital fund in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Female founded ventures which create positive social impact.

Early stage, Growth

Closed

$250k to $2m

Investments focus on expansion opportunities in fast growing sectors such as sustainable food production, agriculture technology, healthcare, clean energy, and education.

Multi-sector: Social or Environmental

Early stage, Growth

15%+

Closed

$9m

Investing in kiwi technology companies that help the world decarbonise.

Carbon emissions

Early stage, growth

Portfolio

Not disclosed

Open

Undisclosed

A Fund that purchases existing homes throughout New Zealand and leases these properties to the government for the accommodation of vulnerable children and young people and their caregivers.

Housing of NZ's most vulnerable children and youth.

8%+

Raising

$70m

A follow on fund to the Impact Enterprise Fund. Investments focus on expansion opportunities in fast growing sectors such as sustainable food production, agriculture technology, healthcare, clean energy, and education.

Multi-sector: Social or Environmental

Early stage, Growth

15%+

Raising capital

$30-$60m

PledgeMe helps Kiwis turn their plans into reality with crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a way of raising money from your friends, family, customers, and fans.

Project Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Crowdlending and Tā Koha

Undisclosed

An equity fund called Positive Property (managed by Positive Capital) that co-owns new social housing supply in partnership with registered charitable community housing providers.

Housing, health, wellbeing, social.

Early stage, growth

Target pre-tax cash return of 4.5% or above

Open

$500m

Pure Advantage supports a broad range of sustainability, regenerative and green growth-focused research activities that generate cutting-edge theory and practice to transform how New Zealanders understand and manage the relationship between the environment and the economy.

Nature based solutions, renewables, built environment, climate positive.


Purpose Capital is a private equity stage fund whose mission is to drive social and environmental change and demonstrate a new way to make money work.

Affordable housing, social inequality, climate change, environmental degradation.

Growth, asset-backed

Risk adjusted returns

Accepting EOI for co-investment and fund 2

$36m (AUM)

Soul Capital invests in enterprises and projects whose purpose is to tackle societal or environmental problems head on with innovation and scalable business models.

Multi-sector: Social or Environmental

Early stage, growth

Varies

Awhi Fund: Fully Deployed
Te Pae ki te Rangi Fund: Investing, open to investor interest

$75m

The Te Puna Hapori (meaning "spring of wellbeing") Community Infrastructure Strategy aims to deliver safe, warm and healthy communities for individuals and families to build a home, be educated, grow and flourish.

Community Infrastructure

Social protection, education and health infrastructure

3-4%

Raising capital

Building a system to create new value for climate action. Through new impact assets, markets and network infrastructure we can allow the true value of regenerative action to be recognised and traded. We are on a mission to unleash impact investment to the frontline with urgency, and at scale.

Climate action, environment regeneration

Early stage, growth

Undisclosed

Undisclosed

Open

Undisclosed

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