PI Impact

We shape the future through Impact Innovation. One of the Youngest GPs in Europe With the GPs of the fund being the youngest in Europe, we have the advantage of being able to rethink investment processes and stay more connected to founders. This allows us to bring a fresh perspective to the table and make informed investment decisions. Invest in Social & Environmental Impact We invest in people that drive positive change to boost impact beyond returns. We carefully select founders and companies with sustainable business ideas we ensure economic, environmental, and social growth. Empower Gender Parity Parity is profitable. Now, we prove that it is possible. Our commitment to investing in 50% female founders and raising capital from 50% female investors is unlocking immense potential in terms of impact and economic value.

We empower founders who are making a difference in the world around us. Mission-aligned Capital: We understand that your impact journey may take longer to realize. For this reason, Tilia provides patient and mission-aligned capital in the form of tailor-made financial instruments. Impact Expertise: We help startups refine their impact thesis and manage the realized impact. We have embedded incentive mechanisms in our processes in order to align every stakeholder towards maximising impact. Connecting to the brightest minds: You will be a part of our “Impact Tribe” - our extensive network of changemakers, mentors and connectors. We connect you with the European impact and VC ecosystem, helping you find the right co-investors. Hands-on Support: Team of experts coming from tech, VC, PE, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and finance. We support you across a full spectrum of operational topics and offer you shelter within the Impact Hub offices. Impact is at the core of our decisions We believe in the economic potential of the companies that are solving humanity’s biggest challenges. We support our portfolio companies in generating the maximal systematic impact across a broad range of environmental and social topics. To achieve this, we invest exclusively in companies with impact inherent in the the business model, and we protect the company mission by setting the right incentives in our Termsheet. Our unique value is in managing impact for greater value creation. We bring more than six years of impact measurement expertise to the equation, helping companies to set up impact KPIs and targets that are business-driven. This a key element of the value we bring to our investors, our investees and the market as a whole.

INCO Ventures manages or advises more than €500M of assets to invest in the most promising start-ups and companies that are shaping the new inclusive and sustainable economy, and advises funds on their investments or on impact measurement. Accelerating game-changers of social economy & sustainable development As we are facing widening inequalities and ecological collapse, we believe it is critical to build a more inclusive and more sustainable economy.​ Achieving this vision requires the creation and development of ventures that offer solutions to our current major social and environmental issues, while creating new markets and jobs for tomorrow. To fund these companies, INCO Ventures manages or advises more than €500M to meet their needs, wherever they are located. To its investors, INCO Ventures ensures a triple return on investment: economic, social and environmental, clearly measured using a unique impact assessment tool: INCO Ratings. INCO Ventures thus brings another vision of finance. A finance anchored in the real world, close to the companies that are making a difference, and creating value for all: citizens, employees, entrepreneurs and investors.

Capital for an economy that respects planetary limits. Some generations have built cathedrals. Some have navigated across oceans and expanded the frontiers of the known world. Others have had to rebuild war-torn continents. Our generation’s greatest challenge is equally immense: to create an economic system that respects the planet’s limits, and overcome the ecological crisis. If we are to rise to the challenge, we're going to have to innovate. In a radical way. This means taking risks - carefully considered, never unnecessary, ones. Having the courage to take the long view once again. Rewriting the rules of economic activity from the ground up, by standing alongside those who recognize that the greatest ambition of all lies in finding alternative means to create wealth. Our mission is to support the entrepreneurs who are repairing the world - from the very beginning of their journey, and with no time limit on our commitment. How? By bringing together a broad and diverse community of first-rate investors, and steering the flow of capital to where it is most likely to make a difference. One sector at a time, one start-up at a time, thereby increasing the number of tipping points. Allowing what will save us to thrive in the face of overwhelming adversity. So that we can finally initiate the systemwide transformational change which all of us are calling for, without always knowing where to start.

With over two decades of Australian investment in building capability in research and universities, Australia now enjoys some of the most extraordinary talent and globally leading minds. This talent is creating knowledge and has the capacity of solving some of the big problems of our time but if we can’t take this know-how and intellect into the world, then this brilliance is lost and the opportunity we have will remain just that – an opportunity. As business builders and investors, Significant has been taking up this challenge for nearly two decades. Working in collaboration with universities, researchers and state governments, we, as a collective group have a track record in translating this knowledge bank into technology, into products, into services and ultimately into businesses that: Have become global companies Re-shaped markets Solved sustainability problems Created jobs and New career pathways for Australians Significant has the capacity to create high value niche modern manufacturing industries and exports for Australia and are extremely proud of their achievements. Significant leads by example to show that Australia can commercialise its inventions, that sustainable globally competitive businesses can be created in Australia, and that early-stage investment can create immense value for investors, demonstrating that through action Significant is able to attract more capital to invest in this important space and is be able to shift the mindset (read the AFR article) that Australia is great at innovation but not at execution. Backing Australia Our vision is a country that backs its researchers for the intellectual capital advantage they provide. Our mission is to back this talent, entrepreneurs and innovators to take these ideas and concepts to the world and create its own self-funding eco-system that results in the formation of new industries. Through our 4-way all-encompassing unique eco-system, our university investor partners provide us with access to the ‘very earliest’ investment opportunities possible, opening the door to concepts, ideas and innovations well before other venture capital funds. Our investment approach We invest in applied technologies that address high-impact global niche markets and will bring about social, environmental or economic change. Every potential investment must have a pathway to being a sustainable business and contributing impact to the UN Sustainable Development Goals either through the technology or through their business model. We look for technologies that provide a market advantage that is hard to replicate. They will have emerged either from researchers who have had long well-funded R&D cycles or innovators who have deep domain specialisation in an industry and so know their market problem exceptionally well. We are sector agnostic driven by the thematics that arise from the core capabilities of our partner universities and the innovations we uncover. The accelerators Strong market-fit and early industry engagement are imperative. We seek to accelerate the path to market dramatically by sourcing early adopters to validate the market need and aim to achieve market traction within 12-24 months. Our ability to find these early adopters is a key part of Significant’s initial due diligence.

Over a decade supporting climate innovation Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market. Structured as a nonprofit, we pioneered our 501vc® Investment Fund to align philanthropic and corporate contributions to deliver environmental, economic, and social impact. Upon investing, we work actively with our portfolio companies to provide strategic guidance, mentorship, and help in achieving critical milestones and connections to funding, demonstration opportunities, and customers. Evergreen is committed to advancing climate innovation and expanding access to such innovation across the Greater Midwest. Critical early-stage climate solutions are underfunded Climate change is humanity’s greatest challenge but represents a small fraction of total venture investment and philanthropic support. Evergreen Climate Innovations addresses the capital gap that exists for early-stage climate tech companies. The Midwest is particularly underserved with only 3% of early-stage climate tech investment going to the Midwest. Our Impact Thesis We invest in startups developing innovative solutions with the potential to make outsized impacts on the climate emergency and related environmental and sustainability challenges. Moreover, these companies create jobs and drive economic development. Our 501vc® Investment Fund: a unique approach Evergreen’s 501vc® model is a seed stage investment fund capitalized with philanthropic dollars. Our fund’s revolving evergreen structure enables us to recycle our investment returns to generate compounding impact. Bringing Climate Technologies to Market Our unique model allows us to be more patient and absorb more risk than a traditional investor, helping to bridge the early-stage commercialization gap. We are hands-on investors. We work closely with our portfolio companies to identify and execute a clear, well-funded path to market. Beyond the money we invest, we provide invaluable resources and opportunities that arise from our extensive network throughout the climate tech innovation ecosystem that we have spent over a decade cultivating.