Cygnum Capital, formerly trading as Lion’s Head Group, is a leading investment banking and asset management firm, specialising in tailored and innovative financial solutions across frontier and emerging markets. With offices in London, Nairobi, Lagos, Dubai and Amsterdam, our team of over 70 finance professionals brings together deep sectoral knowledge… Read More
Charm is an impact investment platform that crowdsources debt for clean energy startups in developing economies. They use innovative blended finance structures to offer loans from £10,000 – £250,000 for enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Across their target markets, local entrepreneurs have genuine, customer-centric experiences with a… Read More
Our mission is to make the use of high-quality customer / supplier impact data the norm in social purpose organizations. This will create widespread accountability and facilitate management towards greater social impact, pushing social performance towards equal footing with financial results in assessing returns on capital Q&A Where is it… Read More
Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible… Read More
Since launch in August 2017, Energise Africa (a partnership between two of Europe’s leading impact investing platforms Lendahand and Ethex) has raised over £13 million in blended finance from a community of 2,500 individual investors, alongside investment from UK aid, Virgin Unite and Good Energies Foundation. This investment has been… Read More
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with an average of 86,000 employees in more than 70 countries. As part of its approach to thriving in the energy transition to a lower-carbon energy system, Shell’s ambition is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 in… Read More
Established in 1948, British International Investment has been at the forefront of supporting companies that help developing and emerging countries grow for the last 70 years. We are the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible… Read More
Our mission is to speed up global clean energy access, mitigating and monetising carbon in the process. Inclusive Energy is a manufacturer of remote monitoring and analytics products designed to empower 1000’s of poorly supported off-grid energy companies operating in economically developing nations. Q&A Where is it based? London &… Read More
EnSo Impact is a project development business based in the UK working internationally with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. EnSo aims to deliver commercially successful work that also achieves environmental and social impact. The environmental aspect of our work is focused on 2 main areas: clean and renewable energy, and… Read More
dpSun management draws upon more than 40 years of combined experience of Solar PV manufacturing and development and has been active in more than 30 countries worldwide. At dpSun we are passionate about contributing to a world, where renewable sources of energy are the driver of economic development and societal… Read More