IGNIA is a venture capital firm based in Monterrey, Mexico that supports the founding and expansion of high growth social enterprises that serve the base of the socio economic pyramid in Mexico.
The Fund’s vision is a more equitable world, and the mission is to improve lives through access to goods and services. Investments focus on the areas of agriculture, housing, healthcare, education, basic services, technology and telecom markets – sectors that have a disproportionate impact on low-income populations. It’s impact has been certified by GIIRS (Global Impact Investing Rating System), which ranks it in the highest quartile among its peers with 117.2 points out of 200.
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Gray Matters Capital (GMC) is an Atlanta based impact investor with a gender lens that is on a mission to “Find a more purposeful life for 100 million women by 2036." Aligning with its mission is its strategy of making sector agnostic investments globally in for-profit enterprises whose products and services benefit women and girls at scale.
GMC sees education, primarily catering to under-resourced and low and middle income sections of the society, as a powerful tool to bring about gender equality and social equity. Over the past 12 years, it has focused on supporting the education ecosystem India by funding for-profit enterprises in the ‘learning to earning’ space, besides being pioneers in establishing the school finance industry catering to low cost private schools in India with Indian School Finance Company (ISFC); Pakistan with the set-up of Taleem Finance Company Ltd (TFCL), in addition to Nigeria (with EdFin Microfinance Bank).
GMC has till date funded over 80 enterprises across the world to the tune of US$ 125 million.
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