Double Feather Partners

We’re Backing Africa’s Most Underserved Founders. Ennovate Ventures is a tech venture factory, investing in ambitious founders who are using their innovations to improve lives, create jobs, and accelerate sustainable development. 30+ Partners in the last 5 years. 1,287 Founders Supported, with over 300 being female founders. $1.1M deployed to founders, with $3.2M follow-on raised. 1.2M Lives Reached and 3,000+ Jobs Created by our startups.

We are a VC firm that accelerates early-stage Latin American startups on three fronts: investment, knowledge transfer, and community building. We bet on projects with the greatest potential from their ideation, so that they can grow and scale exponentially, generating a positive and measurable impact on the economy and society. We are formed by a team of 15 people who are distributed across 7 different areas.

DBL Partners is a double bottom line venture capital firm and pioneer of the impact investing category in venture capital. As the largest impact investor in the venture capital asset class by AUM, we invest in companies that can deliver both top-tier venture capital returns and enable positive social, environmental, and economic impact. DBL has been investing for over a decade and a half with the belief that a company’s financial performance (The First Bottom Line) and positive social impact (The Second Bottom Line) not only complement each other but enhance each other to drive performance and success.

Inclusive Investing™ is a market-backed discipline that allows us to cast a targeted, yet wide net when sourcing companies, while keeping outsized returns and impact front and center in our investment decisions. There’s a lot of talk about demographics and a lack of diversity in venture capital. Inclusive investing is a strategy that proactively addresses this problem. While we’re pioneering this strategy, the data supporting our thesis is on our side: diverse fund managers earn better returns, and companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. Inclusive Investing™ goes beyond diversity - it’s a new investment discipline that can transform the way we source, invest in, and scale businesses, and in doing so, create new pathways to prosperity for individuals, businesses, and communities at scale. Inclusive Investing™ levels the playing field so the best businesses and most talented teams succeed. A Five-Pronged ApproachImplemented cohesively, these five areas of practice yield an Inclusive Investing™ discipline Zeal is spearheading in the venture world across private markets.Diverse Fund Managers: Fund managers and the broader team are diverse with complementary backgrounds and skill sets. Diverse Management Teams: Companies proactively source diverse management teams with complementary skill sets and backgrounds that help portfolio companies outperform. Geographic Inclusivity: Funds source from a wide range of geographies across the U.S., not just traditional geographic VC “hotbeds”. Investment Focus: Investment allocation is directed to sectors where fund managers expect continued innovation and opportunity for disruption. Impact Lens: Investments seek to achieve top tier financial and social returns that impact low-wealth communities and small businesses.

R3i Capital and its Accelerators R3i Ventures and the House of X are a global community of responsible investors, serial entrepreneurs and founders, pioneers, thinkers and doers, logical pragmatists and intuitive visionaries, experts and generalists, and bright lights that together, thrive on transformation rather than incremental change. Our global team combines seasoned track records and lessons learned with passion, creativity, and dedication to helping founders accelerate the impact and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals. Together we live the seven values of integrity, excellence, inclusion, purpose-driven, empathy, teamwork, and camaraderie. Our world is faced with crises. If we deliver the capital that empowers our founders to solve the world's biggest problems and transform our planet, and in so doing, provide extraordinary value to our stakeholders, then that is an excellent purpose for venture capital.

Fifth Star Funds is a venture philanthropy fund seeking to address the funding epidemic in America where only 1% of venture capital is awarded to Black founders. We accomplish this by investing in Black tech founders in Chicago at the early stage “Friends & Family” round. We believe the funding gap at this stage is the most critical to address, as centuries of inequity have prevented these potential entrepreneurs from having the initial capital to start their businesses. Any individual, corporation, or foundation can contribute to the fund as a tax-deductible donation, and 100% of all returns from successful investments are reinvested into the fund to support future generations of underrepresented founders. We are partnered with leaders in the industry such as 1871, Winston & Strawn, Tides.org, and many more. The Chicago flag features four stars that represent pivotal events in our city’s history; we contend that the Fifth Star belongs to underrepresented founders and the extraordinary impact they will have on our city’s future.