SVX Capital Raise Round Up — Q1 Spring Update
Tags: Climate Change, Impact Investing, Investing, Social Enterprise

A summary of SVX campaign activities as of March 30th, 2019.

CURRENTLY RAISING

42 Carden Shared Space is creating space for change with its community bond offering and thriving social innovation hub in downtown Guelph. Series H is an unsecured, interest-bearing bond with a five-year term to maturity.

Capital Committed and Raised: $179,000

Closing Date: May 30th, 2019

42 Carden Shared Space is creating space for change with its community bond offering and thriving social innovation hub in downtown Guelph. Series G is a secured, interest-bearing bond with a five-year term to maturity.

Capital Committed and Raised: $386,000

Closing Date: May 30th, 2019

CoPower is a clean energy investment platform whose mission is to empower Canadians to participate in and profit from the transition to a low carbon future. Through CoPower’s Green Infrastructure Fund (GIF), investors gain unique access to a pool of vetted investment opportunities with strong risk-adjusted returns and impact.

Capital Committed and Raised: $3,352,000

Closing Date: May 30th, 2019

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Deetken Impact invests in emerging economies to generate long term returns while making a positive social and environmental impact in communities.

Deetken LP Units — Capital Committed and Raised: $8,100,000

Deetken Impact Bonds — Capital Comitted and Raised: $3,224,00

Closing Date: December 31st, 2019

Ecotierra Canopy Sustainable Land Use Fund will invest in community-based sustainable agroforestry projects in Latin America delivering private equity market-type return alongside significant positive impacts by addressing climate change and land degradation caused by migratory agriculture practices.

Capital Committed and Raised: $32,100,000

Closing Date: April 30th, 2019

First Nations Bank of Canada (FNBC) is a federally chartered Schedule 1 Canadian bank offering a full range of commercial and personal banking and lending services, and is focused on serving communities to Canadian markets with significant First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, corporations, and governments.

Capital Committed and Raised: $1,450,000

Closing Date: Pending soon

Read more about what First Nations Bank of Canada is doing in Globe and Mail.

At House of Friendship, our vision is to create a healthy community where everyone can belong and thrive by supporting those who need food, housing, community resources or addiction treatment.

Capital Committed and Raised: $1,200,000

Closing Date: April 30th, 2019

National Observer is Canada’s leading progressive national news publication that publishes investigative reporting, in-depth analysis, and daily news coverage.

Capital Committed and Raised: $630,000

Closing Date: June 15th, 2019

T echnologies Ecofixe is leveraging wastewater treatment innovation to unlock sustainability and economic growth for communities. Their mission is to contribute to the access to safe water for all, preserve biodiversity, and environment quality, in a world where 80% of the wastewater is not treated.

Closing Date: May 30th, 2019

CLOSED

A ctive Impact Fund (AIF) supports early-stage social ventures with both funding and part-time, interim senior operational support to provide capacity building.

Capital Committed and Raised: $10,000,000

Read more about Active Impact Investments on Medium.

Brighter Investment invests in the education of the brightest students in emerging market economies. Students earn a degree, investors an attractive return.

Capital Committed and Raised: $475,000

Read more about Brighter Investment on Medium.

CoPower is a clean energy investment platform whose mission is to empower Canadians to participate in and profit from the transition to a low carbon future. CoPower’s flagship investment product, 6-Year Green Bonds are backed by senior, secured loans made to community-scale renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects.

Capital Committed and Raised: $6,350,000

Genecis is an innovative cleantech company that recycles organic food waste into high-value biodegradable PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) plastics.

Genecis won BASF’s first Innovation Pitch Series!

The Lucky Iron Fish is a simple, safe, and clinically proven health innovation that adds natural iron to your diet, which is reusable for up to 5 years and is cast in the shape of a fish.

Capital Committed and Raised: $1,400,000

Read more about Lucky Iron Fish in Forbes and watch them on Dragon’s Den.

Nectar offers an apiary management platform to assist beekeepers in keeping their honeybees thriving, using sensors and AI.

Capital Committed and Raised: $525,000

Oneka technologies developped an autonomous, environmentally friendly solution with very low operation costs, which addresses the water crisis faced by a large portion of the world population.

Capital Committed and Raised: $961,300.00

Peekapak is a research-based and literacy-focused learning platform that integrates concepts like self-regulation and empathy into English Language Arts instruction in the class & home.

Capital Committed and Raised: $830,000

Sarona is an independent investment firm with the objective to deliver capital to entrepreneurs in under-served markets and help them develop their companies and their communities profitably and sustainably.

Capital Committed and Raised: $115,000,000

SolarShare is Canada’s largest non-profit renewable energy co-op with a mission to grow community-based renewable energy generation in Ontario to enable a faster transition to a low-carbon economy.

Capital Committed & Raised: $9,037,000

SolarShare is Canada’s largest non-profit renewable energy co-op with a mission to grow community-based renewable energy generation in Ontario to enable a faster transition to a low-carbon economy.

Capital Committed & Raised: $1,695,000

ThisFish is a world leader of seafood traceability technology that improves business efficiency and increases trust and transparency in seafood products.

Capital Committed and Raised: $565,000

Ulula is a social enterprise that equips businesses with technology, data and analytics to monitor risks of human rights abuses in order to create more responsible supply chains.

Capital Committed and Raised: $1,000,000

The VERGE Breakthrough Fund, established by Pillar Nonprofit Network and SVX, is the first investment initiative in Canada to focus on local investment for local impact, in Southwestern Ontario.

Capital Committed and Raised: $2,260,000

Windmill Microlending (previously Immigrant Access Fund) provides low-interest micro-loans to skilled immigrants and refugees who cannot afford the costs of Canadian licensing and retraining.

Capital Committed and Raised: $4,135,000

The World Tree Carbon Offset Program (COP) is a sustainable timber investment based on the Empress Splendor tree, the fastest growing hard wood tree in the world.

Capital Committed and Raised: $583,750