Author: Tami Pashtan

Vital Capital’s recent investment in Vastpoint, a pioneering land management and geospatial solutions company, has attracted significant attention from regional and international news outlets. Vastpoint helps governments and communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America to create more transparent, inclusive and effective land systems.

The announcement was covered by leading publications, including:

• Africa Capital Digest: Vital Capital Backs Land Rights Pioneer Vastpoint
• Africa Private Equity News: Vital Capital Invests in Vastpoint
• Disrupt Africa: SA Land Management Startup Vastpoint Secures Strategic Funding
• Africa Global Funds: Vital Capital Invests in Vastpoint
• Techbuild Africa: Vital Capital Backs SA’s Vastpoint to Strengthen Land Rights in Vulnerable Regions
• Daba Finance: Impact Investor Vital Capital Backs South Africa’s Vastpoint
• Ocean News: Afrique du Sud : Vastpoint, la start-up qui veut rendre la terre à ceux qui l’habitent

At Vital Capital, we focus on essential services and infrastructure that deliver measurable, lasting impact. Vastpoint’s mission aligns perfectly with that approach. The company is reshaping how land is titled, managed, and valued in high-growth markets. It has already improved the lives of more than 3 million people, issuing over 820,000 land titles, and training thousands in better land governance.

Land systems don’t always make headlines, but they are fundamental to unlocking opportunity, empowering communities, and driving sustainable development across generations. Vastpoint’s work is a powerful example of how private capital can work with governments and communities to build fairer, more resilient futures.

Vital Capital is proud to support Vastpoint as it scales its innovative systems to bring secure land rights to underserved regions by combining technology, transparency, and local engagement.

For more on this investment, read the full announcement here.

Vital Capital has made a strategic investment in Vastpoint, a pioneering land
management and geospatial solutions company, to help scale its efforts in
transforming how land is owned, managed, and used in some of the world’s most
vulnerable regions.

Vastpoint delivers land administration and advanced GIS technologies to support
governments and communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America creating more
transparent, inclusive, and effective land systems and increasing property tax
collection. According to the 2024 Prindex Report, 23% of adults across 108 countries
feel insecure about their property or land rights; an increase of 239 million adults
over the past four years [1].

“From advancing food security and poverty reduction to enabling sustainable
urbanization and climate resilience, secure land tenure underpins a wide range of
global development goals,” said Tamar Pashtan, Vital’s Head of Impact. “With most
of the world’s population lacking secure land and property rights, Vastpoint is
tackling one of the most fundamental – and overlooked – development challenges of
our time.”

To date the company has impacted over three million people, issued more than
820,000 land titles, and provided training for more than 20,000 individuals. With
World Bank data [2] from 53 countries showing that over 70% of women do not own
any land, Vastpoint’s focus on gender equity is especially critical: more than half of
its land titles benefit women as owners or co-owners.

“Vastpoint is a perfect example of how technology, innovation, and strategic
investment can come together to address systemic development challenges,” said
Nimrod Gerber, Managing Partner at Vital Capital. “By improving land security, we’re
not only empowering communities, we’re laying the groundwork for long-term
prosperity and resilience.”

Vital’s investment follows an initial engagement that included seeding Vastpoint’s
initial project, overseeing a successful proof-of-concept. This de-risking approach is
core to Vital’s “build and re-build” strategy, which focuses on transforming greenfield
projects into scalable, high-impact and high-performing businesses. In addition, Vital
has helped to advance its mission of addressing six distinct impact objectives,
including sustainable infrastructure, climate resiliency, and economic empowerment.

Through this latest investment, Vital will partner with Vastpoint’s management to
accelerate the company’s expansion and bring first-time land ownership to millions
more people in some of the world’s least developed countries. Like all companies in Vital Capital’s portfolio, Vastpoint is designed to deliver market-rate returns alongside
measurable social impact.

Visit the Vastpoint website for more information: https://vastpoint.com/

1 https://www.prindex.net/news-and-stories/new-global-data-from-108-countries-reveals-increasing-tenure-insecurity-urgent-policy-action-required
2 https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/agfood/4-priorities-for-increasing-women-s-access-to-farmland

COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, shone a spotlight on climate finance and the urgent need to unlock capital for underserved regions. In an interview with Environmental Finance article on the eve of the conference, Tamar Pashtan, Senior Director and Head of Impact at Vital Capital, outlined key priorities for negotiators to address, emphasizing the important role of blended finance in mitigating risks and increasing impact.

“Pooling and scaling blended finance for climate outcomes in the Global South will be one of the greatest levers to attract private capital in our markets,” said Tamar.

Tarmar highlighted the unique ability of blended finance vehicles to de-risk investments, attract new investors, and expand limited partner commitments, all of which are essential to meeting the ambitious climate finance goals being debated at COP29.

Read the full piece in Environmental Finance here.

In a recent ESG Investor article, Vital Capital’s Head of Impact, Tamar Pashtan, shared her insights on the evolution of private equity’s role in impact investing in sub-Saharan Africa, incentivising local institutional investors and Vital’s approach to creating its own deal flow.

“Zeroing in on basic needs is a winning strategy because it drives real transformative change, such as first-time access to potable drinking water and essential nutritional improvements in the form of proteins and dairy products.”

Check out the full article here.