Firm Overview

Impact Engine invests in companies driving scalable solutions to improve economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health equity.

Impact Engine invests in companies driving scalable solutions to improve economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health equity. We seek complete alignment between financial and social returns such that they reinforce each other and scale together over time. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we also bring the community together in service of bringing new impact investors and impact capital to the market and building the impact investing field. Impact Engine Ventures invests in US- or Canada- based seed and Series A stage software companies with product-market fit and early revenue traction. Impact Engine Private Equity invests in growth stage, lower middle market companies with at least $10M in revenues, across industries. Private Equity also invests as a strategic limited partner in other private equity impact funds with an active engagement approach focused on helping implement impact management processes at the firm and portfolio company levels.

Our key differentiator as a firm is our depth and experience with impact management and measurement. We have been forming and refining our processes since 2012 and regularly write or speak about what we've learned and how we've evolved. We see across impact themes and stages, which creates an advantage in sourcing and diligence. Three of our 4 partners are female, in an industry where only 9.9% of senior roles at PE firms are held by women. Three of our 4 partners are BIPOC, in an industry where an overwhelming majority of firms have no investing partners of color. A more diverse team has led to a more diverse network from which to source (our team is 64% women and 59% BIPOC). Without a diversity mandate, we have invested in 58% women or BIPOC CEOs and 55% women or BIPOC fund GPs to date.