Explore Great Impact Companies in our Portfolio
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Flourish
Flourish creates experiences and platforms for Oklahoma City to grow awareness, uproot barriers, and cultivate a new narrative to help influence and build a flourishing city.
Collaborating with businesses, individuals, organizations, and churches, Flourish offers experiences, storytelling, educational exchanges, and venture accelerators for entrepreneurs to build unity in their community.
TUA Afrika
TUA Afrika is an Agro-Processing company with a vision to revolutionize the agriculture value chain in the region by building an integrated end-to-end digital supply chain platform upon which different Agro-products can be processed and/or brought to the market.
Smart Living Residential
Smart Living Residential develops multifamily projects to fill the growing attainable housing need through an impact centric business model.
Felix’s Restaurant Group
Felix’s Restaurant Group owns and manages restaurant properties in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pitchfire
Pitchfire is an early-stage, pre-revenue startup which aims to transform customer-acquisition costs (CAC). Instead of (or as a complement to) paying for advertising or outreach to a customer, Pitchfire provides a platform where prospective customers can register to receive pitches from companies. Ideal prospective customers are those who work for a large company and have decision-making power to onboard new services for their employer. When companies want to pitch them a given service, they first have to reach out via Pitchfire and offer the prospective customer a dollar amount as compensation. The prospective customer can then accept/deny the outreach plus compensation.
Fingo Africa
Fingo is the first digital-only bank in Kenya. It supports young Africans to gain financial freedom and participate in the modern economy. For many of their users, Fingo is their first bank account.
Verdant Orchards
Verdant Orchards (VO) is a high-value, high-impact, perennial orchard business in Africa. In addition to the two farms VO already has in Mozambique and Zambia, the company is focused on acquiring & building additional orchards in Africa with strong long-term, durable yields generated from exports in hard currency.
Girls First Finance
Girls First Finance (GFF) supports young women's education and professional development worldwide, starting in Africa, through student loans and personal empowerment tools. Girls can apply for affordable higher education loans through the GFF mobile app.
Verdant Fintech Fund
Verdant Fintech Fund’s portfolio offers creative solutions to some of Africa's greatest financial inclusion gaps:
digititing credit unions
creating a neo-bank for Africa’s youth
lowering transport logistics costs
affordable credit access for small businesses
technology to enhance the delivery of quality education products for parents, teachers, and schools
By creating better, affordable, and contextual access to financial products, Verdant’s African fintechs will accelerate financial inclusion for 100 million customers and 1 million small businesses across the continent.
Agros
Founded in 1984, Agros advances a holistic model of economic and social development through four key opportunity areas: land ownership, market-led agriculture, financial empowerment, and health & well-being. To date, Agros has partnered with 45 rural communities in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, impacting the lives of over 20,000 people.
Hybrid Social Solutions
Founded in 2010, Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. is an award-winning social enterprise that provides rural, off-grid communities and underserved remote on-grid communities in the Philippines with sustainable access to high-quality, affordable solar technologies aimed at spurring basic economic development.
Sterling Light Productions
Sterling Light Productions is a motion picture production company directing attention onto fictional and non-fictional stories that provoke deep questions about why we are who we are, seeking to provide insight into these matters.
GROW Innovation
GROW seeks to construct a high-tech greenhouse focused on growing leafy greens to be sold in retail grocery stores around Memphis, TN and the wider region.
Long Miles Coffee
Long Miles Coffee is a coffee company with a singular mission to use coffee as a tool for community transformation in East Africa. With a quadruple bottom line business model to achieve their mission, they specialize in micro-lot specialty coffee that they directly trade with roasters around the world.
Lawndale Christian Development Corporation
LCDC organizes with the community, for power, to eliminate health and wealth disparities in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood and around the world. LCDC’s work is done through the development and management of affordable mixed-use housing, providing homeownership for working families, and creating cooperative businesses in pursuit of economic development.
Imbha
Imbha is a technology-enabled Township developer focused on addressing the rapid Urbanization happening in South Africa and Africa, by maximizing the strengths of the local community and combining it with advanced technology designed to ease the process of land acquisition, design, feasibilities and construction of high-quality rental accommodation.