Global Innovation Fund

Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is an impact-focused investment firm that provides financial investment and strategic, post-investment support to accelerate growth and maximize impact for underserved communities. They combine financial investment with strategic, post-investment support to accelerate growth and maximise impact. GIF deploys flexible capital, utilizing grants, equity, and debt, to support early-stage innovations with proven potential to transform lives and progress toward scale. They de-risk and nurture high-potential innovations by providing deep technical, financial, and advisory support, along with connections to a powerful network of peer innovators and follow-on funders. GIF is committed to generating actionable insights and learnings that help innovators, partners, and the wider ecosystem learn, adapt, and make better decisions. The fund strategically prioritizes investments in Africa and Asia, focusing resources where the potential and need for scalable and sustainable change is greatest. GIF seeks innovations driving solutions across two critical thematic areas: building climate resilience and unlocking inclusive economic opportunities. GIF measures its impact by the amount of additional capital attracted to their innovations per dollar invested, the number of people expected to benefit, and the net social value created by their investments. For example, they report $8 in additional capital attracted per $1 invested, 157 million people expected to benefit by 2034, and $1.15 billion in net social value created by five of their earliest investments. GIF Growth offers a specific debt investment option, as demonstrated by their investment in 4G Capital, enabling the company to scale credit to both new and existing clients. By supporting on-lending to 4G Capital’s customer base, this investment promotes financial inclusion for GIF’s target beneficiaries, particularly underserved micro and small enterprises.

Agriculture and food security, Education and skills development, Health and well-being, Gender equality, Financial, economic, and social inclusion, Building climate resilience, Unlocking inclusive economic opportunities

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