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The world is facing urgent social and environmental crises.  For too long, business decisions have failed to account for non-financial factors.  Industries have consolidated, bad practices are entrenched and governments struggle to drive change.
The good news is that there are businesses delivering positive social and environmental impact with an equal focus on attractive financial returns.

Introduction

The time for change

Impact investing is a growing movement filled with exciting start-ups challenging the status quo.  Great start-ups disrupt, innovate, inspire, and thrive… but they are hard to find.  Investing in start-ups demands expertise, is time consuming and performs best using a diversified portfolio approach.  Opto Impact Ventures have found a solution to this.

Introducing Opto Impact Ventures

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At Opto Impact, we focus on three core segments for a reason:
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Branded consumer goods.
<ul>With the world in crisis, Millennials and GenZ are voting with their wallets and impact brands are experiencing explosive growth.</ul>
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Public service providers.
<ul>Governments can&#8217;t deliver services the public demands. Impact focused providers garner public trust and are compensated accordingly.</ul>
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Tech for good.
<ul>Innovation can solve wicked problems. Today, solutions are compensated according to the benefit provided.</ul>

Impact investing

Can real impact investing deliver attractive returns?

New Ground Coffee

Specialty coffee roaster launched in Autumn 2018 providing training and employment for ex-offenders

Yendy

Creating high quality skincare products using African superfoods in a way that supports the women and communities who supply the raw ingredients

Fanfare Label

An independent sustainable fashion house leading the way for circularity and positive change.

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We are working with a portfolio of start-ups in various ways, from raising capital to taking a seat on their boards, developing their strategy and accelerating their growth.

Start-ups

Start-ups we work with 

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New opportunities require new approaches. The typical VC strategy of return maximisation alienates impact founders, missing the best opportunities. An over-emphasis on impact to the neglect of the business will deliver sub-standard returns.  The Opto team combines investing experience with impact expertise to deliver an optimised combination.
Opto Impact is part of an ecosystem of companies that includes an early-stage impact accelerator and an angel network for impact investors.  The ecosystem provides proprietary deal flow, enhanced due diligence and co-investors for early funding rounds.
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