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Impact VC

31 impact funders on Causeartist list impact vc among their investment themes. This focus archive helps founders and LPs find aligned capital, compare mandates, and identify co-investors in impact vc.

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Farmland LP
Impact Fund
Farmland LP is the largest manager focused on organic and regenerative farming in the United States, specializing in transforming conventional farmland into sustainable, high-value agricultural assets. The company manages over 19,000 acres and focuses on converting farmland to USDA Organic certified farms while implementing regenerative farming practices that improve both financial returns and environmental outcomes. Their mission centers on delivering sustainable returns by capitalizing on the growing demand for organic food while addressing the supply shortage of organic farmland. They operate by acquiring conventional farmland and implementing value-add transformations including organic conversion, precision irrigation, multi-year crop rotations, and renewable energy installations. The company follows a comprehensive approach that reduces chemical inputs, improves soil health, and supports biodiversity across more than 40 high-value crops. Farmland LP has established itself as a world leader in natural capital and sustainable agriculture investment, earning recognition from HIP Investor with the highest impact rating among 10,000 companies evaluated. Their impact extends beyond financial returns to include significant environmental benefits such as CO2 sequestration, pesticide reduction, and biodiversity enhancement. As a Certified B Corporation and PRI signatory, they have set new industry standards for sustainable agriculture investment and demonstrated that regenerative farming practices can deliver both market-leading returns and meaningful environmental impact.
Impact FinanceSustainable Food & AgricultureUnited States
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Flourish Ventures
Venture Capital
Flourish Ventures is an early-stage, evergreen fintech venture firm working toward a fairer financial system for consumers and small businesses. The firm spun out of Omidyar Network in 2019 with backing from Pam and Pierre Omidyar, and Managing Partner Tilman Ehrbeck leads the platform. Public materials cite about $850M under management and a roughly even split between U.S. and emerging-market investing. The investment lens is fintech with a point of view. Themes have included digital banking and neobanks, embedded finance, financial infrastructure, insurtech, regtech, and digital credit that expands responsible access. Flourish also funds ecosystem partners that shape regulation and industry practice, not only company equity. Success is framed as venture returns plus meaningful contribution to financial health and fairness. Because the fund is evergreen, the team can stay with founders longer than a classic closed-end clock allows. That patient structure pairs with Fair Finance principles: customer well-being, privacy and data security, open lower-cost infrastructure, and incentives aligned with financial health. Diligence asks whether the product makes customers better off, not only whether it grows. For founders building mission-driven fintech in the U.S., Africa, Asia, or Latin America, Flourish sits at an unusual intersection of global capital, policy networks, and product judgment. If your company needs investors who care about category outcomes and regulatory reality as much as growth charts, this is a relevant lead or co-investor conversation.
AI & TechnologyCommunity DevelopmentImpact FinanceCalifornia, United States
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Obvious Ventures
Venture Capital
Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs exceptional founders building breakthrough solutions to solve humanity's biggest problems. They focus their investments across three key areas: human health and longevity (including healthcare, biopharma, and consumer wellness), planetary health (clean energy, electric mobility, and carbon reduction), and economic health (helping individuals and small businesses achieve financial prosperity). The firm operates on the fundamental belief that the most valuable companies of our time will be those solving humanity's biggest challenges, viewing profit and purpose as a virtuous circle. They place great emphasis on values and culture, holding themselves and their portfolio companies to high ethical and moral standards while selecting for values-based leadership. Their approach combines humility in acknowledging imperfection with audacity in taking bold risks and investing in companies they wish existed. Obvious Ventures has made a significant impact in the startup ecosystem by supporting transformative companies like Beyond Meat, Gusto, Diamond Foundry, and Virta Health since their founding. Their portfolio demonstrates their commitment to reimagining huge sectors of the global economy in ways that move the planet forward. By combining their operating experience with a focus on both big vision and detailed execution, they help define what world-positive entrepreneurship looks like in practice.
Impact FinanceUnited States
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Prime Coalition
Impact Fund, Grantmaker
Prime Coalition is a Cambridge, Massachusetts nonprofit that helps philanthropists deploy catalytic capital into climate solutions that conventional investors often skip. Since 2014, Prime has focused on additionality: filling gaps where technology risk, long timelines, or first-of-a-kind infrastructure make ordinary venture or project finance a poor fit. The organization stewards impact-first programs rather than acting as a classic closed-end VC. That includes earlier vehicles such as Prime Impact Fund and Azolla Fund I (managed with Azolla Ventures), plus Trellis Climate for first-of-a-kind climate infrastructure projects that need risk-tolerant capital to reach commercial scale. Public materials cite on the order of $108M in catalytic capital into Prime programs and about $2.8B in external capital crowded in, with dozens of companies supported through impact-first funds. Prime's role in the ecosystem is bridge and standard-setter. It evaluates impact and additionality, helps philanthropists make their first catalytic investments, and publishes tools and field-building resources (including work around Project Frame). For founders, Prime is less a cold outbound check source and more a signal that your solution needs catalytic capital and can prove climate impact that markets alone will not fund yet. If you are building a breakthrough climate company or FOAK project that stalls in the valley between philanthropy and commercial capital, Prime is the kind of steward that exists to close that gap.
Built EnvironmentClean EnergyClimate TechMassachusetts, United States