
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
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.
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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