We are your partner for capital strategies that deliver impact by design.
Drawing on more than a decade of proven expertise, Roots of Impact works as a trusted advisor and fund manager for impact investors, philanthropists, and catalytic funders. With our unique impact-by-design approach, we unlock the full potential to deliver positive impact for people and the planet in line with the priorities of our clients.
As innovative finance pioneers, who coined the term Impact-Linked Finance, we bring the skills, team, passion and experience to turn intentions into results across the entire spectrum of capital, spanning philanthropy, blended finance, and impact investment. FIND OUT WHAT IMPACT BY DESIGN CAN DO FOR YOU!
We turn ambitions into positive outcomes
We help clients and partners translate ambition into positive outcomes for people and the planet. Our suite of services includes:
(1) Designing effective financing solutions: We develop fit-for-purpose financing solutions that incorporate impact by design and drive their market adoption.
(2) Managing high-impact funds and facilities: We manage financing vehicles that mobilize resources, align incentives, and accelerate impact spanning diverse sectors, topics, and geographies.
(3) Advising on tailored capital strategies: We help investors, philanthropists, and catalytic funders design and implement strategies that maximize social and environmental outcomes across the full spectrum of capital.
We embed impact creation from the outset
Impact by design is about using capital deliberately and strategically to enhance positive outcomes. It embeds impact creation from the outset, ensuring that positive outcomes are generated through intentional design. It seeks to advance direct, indirect, and systemic outcomes across the entire spectrum of capital, spanning philanthropy, blended finance, and impact investing. This includes actively supporting organizations and funds receiving capital to strengthen their capability to deliver, measure, and scale impact.
We engage in education & research
As a field builder, we are passionate about providing cutting-edge research and education to support more effective impact finance. This is why we established the Social Finance Academy (SFA) and the Initiative for Blended Finance (IBF). SFA guides entrepreneurs on their impact journeys by empowering them to access impact-aligned investment and professionalize their impact management. The IBF is a global competence center for the effective application of blended and innovative finance.
We continuously learn, evolve & share
To advance the market, we constantly learn and evolve and enjoy sharing our learnings, practical experience and insights about effective ways to deploy capital for impact. As innovative finance pioneers who coined the term Impact-Linked Finance (ILF), we believe that innovative structuring approaches are able to shift the paradigm and push positive outcomes for people and the planet.
We work with renowned partners & clients
Positive outcomes are never created in isolation. Therefore, we collaborate and connect with impact investors, philanthropists, catalytic funders and many other thought-leading and like-minded partners in and beyond our programs, facilities and funds. We also strive to empower other practitioners to benefit from our trusted expertise, e.g., through our upcoming Impact-Linked Finance Transaction Hub.
We have a fantastic, mission-driven team
Our multicultural team is passionate about creating impact together and combines long-term experience and trusted expertise in venture capital, corporate finance, development and innovative finance, public policy, impact entrepreneurship, investment readiness and impact measurement & management.
