Impact Funders Directory (Page 10)

Planet A Ventures is a European venture capital fund that supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems by investing in green technology startups. They focus on building the economy our planet needs by partnering with European green tech start-ups that have significant positive impact while building scalable businesses globally. Planet A operates as the first European VC with an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to quantify the impact of startups before investment. Their scientists hold veto power over investments if there is no significant positive and quantifiable impact, ensuring a rigorous science-based approach with no greenwashing. They combine venture capital with scientific know-how to mentor and support founders in developing sustainable solutions. The fund is pioneering scientific impact investing as the new normal in venture capital, openly sharing their methods and results to inspire others to adopt a scientific approach to investment decisions. Through their operational platform and extensive network, they provide ongoing support beyond just capital, making environmental impact the central metric of success. Their portfolio includes innovative companies working on solutions from compostable materials and carbon mineralization to AI-powered sustainable supply chain decisions.

Planetary Impact Ventures is a Danish investment manager providing patient capital to companies and land projects working to regenerate food systems, farmland, and biodiversity. Planetary operates two evergreen funds. Its Venture Fund invests in companies developing long term solutions for an organic and regenerative food system operating within planetary boundaries. Its Soil Fund acquires degraded farmland in Denmark and partners with farmers and entrepreneurs who want to restore the land through regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and nature restoration. The firm was founded in 2019 and made its first portfolio investment in 2020. Its portfolio includes businesses working across food production, agricultural technology, soil health, biological inputs, circular packaging, alternative ingredients, and ecosystem restoration. Planetary takes a long term approach designed around the time required to build resilient businesses and restore natural systems. Its evergreen funds do not follow the traditional venture capital cycle of raising a fund, pursuing rapid exits, and returning capital within a fixed period. Planetary also operates without carried interest, which it believes reduces pressure to prioritize short term financial gains over lasting environmental value. The firm is commercially oriented and expects its investments to be financially sound. However, it defines value more broadly than financial return alone, considering environmental health, human wellbeing, biodiversity, resilient communities, and the needs of future generations.

Praxis is a global venture-building ecosystem supporting entrepreneurs, nonprofits, investors, and culture makers motivated by faith to address major social and cultural challenges. Through accelerators, fellowships, mentorship, and community-building programs, Praxis helps founders build “redemptive ventures” focused on renewal, restoration, and long-term societal impact. The organization supports both for-profit and nonprofit ventures across sectors including education, healthcare, technology, community development, social innovation, and ethical entrepreneurship.

Prelude Ventures is a climate venture firm that invests across the technologies needed to rebuild a low-carbon economy. Climate is not a side sleeve. It is the whole mandate: built environment, carbon management, compute, energy, food and agriculture, manufacturing and industrials, and mobility. The firm screens for impact and invests for scale. In practice that means looking for category-defining companies that can create lasting climate benefit and still become large businesses. Prelude has been an early and consistent co-investor alongside other specialist climate funds, and it is comfortable across software, hardware, and deep technical work when the company can grow inside real markets. Public fund data has pointed to a large Climate Fund II vehicle (reported around $850 million), which places Prelude among the more capitalized dedicated climate VCs. Typical check sizes cited in market databases often land from about $100,000 to $5 million depending on stage and role, with the ability to stay involved as companies mature. For founders, Prelude is most relevant when the product sits in a hard climate category and needs a partner that already lives in those markets: grids and buildings, industrial processes, carbon removal and measurement, climate-relevant compute, or low-carbon mobility and food systems.

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.

Propeller is an ocean-focused venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies building technologies and infrastructure at the intersection of the ocean economy, climate resilience, industrial innovation, and carbon solutions. The firm backs founders developing scalable businesses across ocean industries, carbon management, maritime technology, energy systems, aquaculture, robotics, transportation, and biological innovation. Propeller invests where the ocean affects or is affected by the climate transition, seeking opportunities that deliver both strong economic returns and measurable environmental impact. Operating from a thesis centered on Ocean Industrials, Carbon, and Organics, the firm supports entrepreneurs transforming legacy industries and building new markets across the blue economy.

Prosper Global Ventures is the early-stage impact investing and venture-building platform of Prosper Global, the global development organization formerly known as Mercy Corps. The platform was founded in 2015 as Mercy Corps Ventures and now operates as a family of funds backing founders whose technologies help people and markets withstand climate and economic disruption. Its Resilient Future Thesis is organized around three connected areas: adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies. The team invests primarily across Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, prioritizing founders who understand the communities they serve and businesses that can scale across a region or globally. Earlier Fund I activity also included Southeast Asia. Prosper Global’s current Ventures page reports 61 early-stage companies supported, $753 million in follow-on capital catalyzed, and 46.3 million customers reached across 90 countries. Its 2025 impact report says 83% of portfolio companies had raised follow-on capital and 46% had at least one woman co-founder. These are Prosper Global Ventures’ reported portfolio figures, not independent impact measurements. The platform combines equity investment with pilots, technical assistance, impact measurement, partnerships, and post-investment support. Representative investments made under the Mercy Corps Ventures name include Pula, which provides agricultural insurance and advisory products for smallholder farmers; Floodbase, which develops flood-risk data and analysis; Wasoko, a last-mile commerce and financing platform for small retailers; AgriAku, an agricultural input marketplace; Ejara, an inclusive savings and investment platform; and Verqor, an agri-fintech platform serving farmers in Mexico. Prosper Global Ventures is embedded within Prosper Global’s humanitarian and development network, giving portfolio companies potential pathways to test products with communities affected by climate volatility, financial exclusion, fragile food systems, and infrastructure gaps. The venture platform is associated with Scott Onder, its co-founder and senior investment leader, while Tjada D’Oyen McKenna leads the parent organization as CEO.

Pulse Fund is a climate venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies across four interconnected sectors: food and agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility. Founded in 2022 by Tenzin Seldon, the firm focuses on scalable solutions that address climate challenges across multiple industries. In September 2026, Pulse announced the $63 million close of its inaugural fund. Its portfolio includes Mast Reforestation, Twelve, Endera Motors, InventWood, BlocPower, Floodbase, Plantible Foods, and other climate technology companies. Beyond capital, Pulse provides strategic guidance, industry connections, operational support, governance expertise, and access to additional financing. Its investment approach emphasizes commercially viable solutions with long-term environmental impact, guided by a philosophy it calls Pulse Time: generating returns today while building for the next century.

The PwC Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity driven by the people and values of PwC, striving to build resilient, equitable, and enduring communities. The foundation focuses on unlocking potential and accelerating paths to opportunity through strategic investments and collaborations. Since 2001, the foundation has distributed significant funding across three core focus areas: supporting PwC people ($10 million), education initiatives ($220 million), and humanitarian efforts ($50 million). The foundation invests in innovative work and collaborates with transformative organizations to create more inclusive pathways to education and career opportunities, while also advancing preparedness and recovery capabilities to strengthen communities facing humanitarian crises.

Qumra Capital is an Israeli growth venture capital firm focused on late-stage technology companies. Based in Tel Aviv, it was the first Israeli VC fund dedicated to the Israeli growth market, backing ambitious teams scaling into global market leaders. Its portfolio has included companies such as Fiverr, JFrog, AppsFlyer, Riskified, Talkspace, and Minute Media.

Quona Capital is a pioneering impact venture capital firm that invests in fintech innovators advancing financial inclusion across high-growth emerging markets. Since 2015, the firm has been backing fintech companies that pursue profits with purpose, prioritizing not just access to financial services, but the quality, relevance, and usability that turn access into lasting impact. With a global presence spanning from Latin America to India and Southeast Asia to the EMEA region, Quona's team speaks 18 languages and lives and breathes in the markets they serve. The firm has achieved significant scale with their portfolio companies touching 151.5M lives (75% underserved), serving 31.2M retail customers (87% underserved), and creating over 23,000 jobs.

Reach Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that has been backing visionary founders since 2015 across learning, health, and work sectors. The firm invests in entrepreneurs building technologies that expand access to opportunity and care, with a belief that when people can grow their skills, nurture relationships, maintain health, and find meaning in work, communities thrive. Reach Capital brings a distinctly 'liberal arts' approach to supporting founders, with team members having diverse backgrounds as former founders, operators, educators, designers, and writers. Impact is at the heart of their work, measuring success across three dimensions: access, scale, and quality to ensure solutions reduce barriers and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Realize Impact is a philanthropic capital investment non-profit that helps donors make impact investments through their Philanthropic Investment Grants (PHIGs) program. They serve as an intermediary where donors make grants to them and recommend where the funds should be invested, allowing philanthropic capital to flow into impact investments. They also provide fiscal sponsorship services for mission-driven organizations without 501(c)(3) status. Their mission is to relieve poverty, create jobs, and improve social and environmental health by investing in impactful companies that lack access to financing from conventional sources. They operate on the principle that all investing should be impact investing, and their purpose is to make impact investing easy, rewarding, and possible for everyone. The organization follows values of audacity, responsibility, and bridge-building in their approach. Realize Impact plays a crucial role in the ecosystem by bridging the gap between philanthropic donors and impact investments, making it easier for traditional philanthropists to participate in impact investing. They distinguish themselves by focusing on true impact rather than ESG metrics, emphasizing what companies do rather than just how they operate. Their model enables the recycling of returns from successful investments back into new impact opportunities, multiplying the effect of initial donations.

REDF invests in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment. They focus specifically on employment social enterprises - businesses that create jobs and opportunities for individuals who face significant challenges in accessing traditional employment pathways. The organization operates through a comprehensive approach that combines capital, capacity building, and community support to help their portfolio enterprises grow further and faster. Their mission centers on building a thriving and inclusive society where all people have the jobs and support they need to realize their full potential, guided by the vision of creating an economy that works for everyone. REDF plays a critical role in the social enterprise ecosystem by not only providing direct investment and support to employment-focused businesses, but also by evaluating what works and sharing their learnings to drive broader policy and systems change. Their multi-faceted approach spans from early-stage accelerator programs to growth-stage investments and advocacy partnerships with government entities, positioning them as both an investor and a thought leader in advancing employment opportunities for underserved populations.

ReGen Ventures is an impact-focused venture capital firm that invests in foundational regenerative technologies designed to power a future of abundance. They focus on four core investment areas: clean energy, planetary intelligence, programmable matter, and adaptive robotics, partnering with founders who are building transformative technologies from the atomic to planetary scale. The firm operates with a mission to reimagine the world by supporting technologies that make regeneration inevitable, enabling infinite growth and prosperity on a finite planet. They take a hands-on approach with founders, providing comprehensive support that ranges from business modeling to personal wellness, emphasizing long-term sustainable returns over short-term wins. ReGen Ventures positions itself as an innovator in the investment space, paving a new path for what investments should be by focusing on root causes rather than symptoms of environmental challenges. They are building what they call a "ReGenerative Future" where climate change is reframed as an opportunity for transformation, backing founders with unreasonable ambition who alter understanding of what's possible in addressing planetary challenges.

Regeneration.VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage Consumer ClimateTech startups focused on driving the circular economy through sustainable innovation in materials, consumer products, and carbon solutions. The firm specifically targets climate-focused companies that are working to transform unsustainable consumption models and create regenerative value chains. Their mission is to regenerate consumer industry value chains to meet planetary boundaries, recognizing that humanity currently consumes nearly twice what Earth can replenish and that 7 of the 9 planetary boundaries have been transgressed. They operate with a theory of change centered on transforming the "take-make-waste" consumption model that drives climate change and biodiversity loss by investing in solutions that enable circular and regenerative approaches. Regeneration.VC matters in the impact ecosystem because they take a rigorous, data-driven approach to measuring circularity and regenerative impact through their CRISP protocol, developed in partnership with Circle Economy Foundation. The fund brings together a multi-disciplined team of investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and corporate leaders, with strategic advisor Leonardo DiCaprio, positioning them as a significant player in scaling breakthrough technologies that can deliver outsized net environmental benefits.

Renewal Funds is a sustainability-focused impact venture capital fund based in Vancouver that supports exceptional founders building technology and platform businesses driving the affordability and accessibility of climate solutions. They invest across five primary sustainability themes: energy transition, mobility, food systems, zero waste, and natural resources, focusing on opportunities where their expertise and network can best support mission-aligned founders. As a "mission venture capital" firm, Renewal Funds operates with the dual goal of achieving financial success while creating positive impact for people and planet. They make minority preferred equity investments in high growth, capital efficient businesses, partnering with exceptional, mission-driven founders who have built category leading companies and can demonstrate excellent product-market fit and customer traction. Renewal Funds has established itself as a significant player in the impact investing ecosystem, currently managing $240 million in assets under management across three funds. Their influence extends beyond direct investments, as they work to prove to investors and the broader financial community that mission-driven investing represents the future of finance, contributing to the growing acceptance and adoption of impact investing approaches.

Responsibly Ventures is a PreSeed VC Impact Fund focused on backing remarkable teams building startups in sustainability and social good sectors. They support founders in realizing what they call 'Venture Scale Positive Impacts' by investing in companies that create measurable environmental and social benefits alongside financial returns. Their mission centers on understanding not just what teams are building, but why they're building it and who they're building it for at a fundamental level. They operate by seeking startups with an 'impact moat' - where the company's mission-driven focus provides a unique strategic advantage in the market. The fund actively promotes all forms of positive impact as core value drivers, including diversity, inclusion, empathy, social responsibility, ethics, and actions focused on both people and planet. Responsibly Ventures has created meaningful impact in the venture ecosystem through their portfolio companies and broader community initiatives. Their partner community 'posi2ive' includes over 10,000 impact-aligned investors and founders, creating a network effect for sustainable innovation. They've demonstrated concrete results through portfolio companies like Kidsy (diverted over 1 million pounds of products from landfill) and it's electric (expanding EV charging access across 9 cities), proving that impact and venture-scale returns can coexist effectively.

Rippleworks is a nonprofit foundation founded in 2015 by Chris Larsen and Doug Galen to provide practical support to social impact organizations scaling their operations. The organization was formed as one of the first-ever cryptocurrency-endowed foundations and operates from Redwood City, California. Rippleworks offers a comprehensive suite of programs including short-term advisory projects pairing organizations with industry experts, one-on-one expert office hours, interactive leadership development workshops through their Leaders Studio program, and flexible catalytic capital investments. Their mission focuses on helping social ventures address critical challenges in education, healthcare, environmental resilience, and community development by providing the operational expertise and resources needed to scale faster and improve more lives in the U.S. and around the world.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to transforming health in our lifetime through bold and innovative approaches. The foundation works collaboratively with others to achieve health equity faster and create a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a fundamental right for all. RWJF focuses on taking bold leaps to address systemic health challenges and promote inclusive solutions that benefit communities across the nation. The foundation operates with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, recognizing that achieving true health equity requires addressing the root causes of health disparities and working toward comprehensive transformation of health systems.

The Rockefeller Foundation is one of the world’s largest and most influential philanthropic organizations, focused on advancing human well-being through large-scale investments in energy access, food systems, health, economic opportunity, climate resilience, and emerging technologies. Founded in 1913, the foundation partners with governments, nonprofits, corporations, and local communities to tackle systemic global challenges through innovative finance, data, and technology-driven solutions. The foundation is known for making ambitious “big bets” aimed at improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide, particularly in underserved and economically vulnerable communities.

Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that partners with small and growing agricultural businesses to increase farmer livelihoods, fight climate change, uplift women, employ youth, and build rural prosperity. They provide credit tailored to agricultural enterprises' needs, along with free capacity building training, farming resources, and other support services to help these businesses develop and scale. Their mission is to grow rural prosperity and build the resilience of farming families around the world, with a vision of thousands of rural businesses supporting a thriving agricultural sector. They operate through four key pathways: Access to Finance, Climate Action, Women's Empowerment, and Next Generation Jobs, supporting the early development of agricultural enterprises because they believe these businesses can raise up whole communities. Since 1999, Root Capital has been creating transformative impact in some of the world's most vulnerable rural areas across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. They have positively impacted the lives of over 10 million people in farming communities, demonstrating their significant role in fostering sustainable agricultural development and rural economic growth. Their 25-year track record positions them as a key player in the agricultural impact investing ecosystem.

S2G Ventures is a multi-stage investment firm focused on venture and growth-stage businesses across food & agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. With over 11 years of track record and $2.8 billion in assets under management, S2G has built a portfolio of over 120 companies driving system-wide change. The firm operates at the seams of sector transition, recognizing that their focus areas, food & agriculture, oceans, and energy, are highly interconnected, commodity-driven, and policy-sensitive with commonly hard-to-abate emission challenges. S2G challenges the typical siloed approach to investing by tapping into similar market dynamics to identify scalable solutions that help change the system rather than just driving positive outcomes.

Salesforce Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Salesforce and dates to the company's 1999 founding and 1-1-1 philanthropy model. It supports education-focused nonprofits and public-school partners, with current emphasis on academic success, strong educators, career readiness and access to future-oriented skills. The legal foundation and its grants must be distinguished from Salesforce, Inc.'s broader corporate philanthropy and employee programs. Salesforce.org is also not a synonym for Salesforce Foundation. Salesforce.org historically organized Salesforce's nonprofit and education technology business, but its domain now redirects to Salesforce's commercial Nonprofit Cloud page. Product donations and discounts through the Power of Us program, employee volunteer time, employee-directed matching and Salesforce Foundation grants are related parts of the company's social-impact model but are different resources. The current Foundation page highlights named grantees and Salesforce-announced education grant totals, including a September 2026 announcement of $27 million in new education grants. That announced cohort amount is not a perpetual pool, AUM, independently verified outcome or generally available award range. No broad open Foundation grant application was verified, so this profile does not publish an application URL or check size.