Vital Capital was awarded as the winner of the EMPEA Institute Sustainability & Operational Excellence Challenge 2017 for its management of Luanda Medical Center at the EMPEA/Financial Times leadership summit in London. Congratulations to LMC for their superior operations.

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Aldeia Nova was featured in a case-study based research effort led by Deloitte, “Reaching deep in low income markets: Enterprises achieving impact, sustainability, and scale at the base of the pyramid”.

The research was published by: Deloitte, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Omidyar Network.

Their research finds for-profit enterprises are successfully serving low-income markets, achieving economic sustainability and scalability at the bottom of the pyramid.

For the full report: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/economic-sustainability-low-income-markets.html 

The GIIN has released a new report, Network Insights: Impact Measurement in the Healthcare Sector. The report features commonly-used impact metrics and measurement approaches by Vital Capital and other leading investors in healthcare delivery in emerging markets.

The report is a key step to greater transparency and shared learnings in the sector. This is GIIN’s second in a series of Network Insights publications that aggregate common practices and perspectives from impact investors.

For the full report: https://thegiin.org/knowledge/publication/network-insights-impact-measurement-in-the-healthcare-sector

The London Stock Exchange Group in partnership with the Africa Development Bank, CDC, and PwC, revealed their list of Africa’s most dynamic private, high-growth companies in a pioneering inaugural report, Companies to Inspire Africa. This pioneering initiative identifies Africa’s most dynamic private, high-growth companies.

We are proud of the prominent features on Vital Capital’s portfolio companies: Aldeia Nova, Luanda Medical Center, Kora Angola, WaterHealth International, mention of the recently launched Vital Tomosi’s Dairy, and 8 Miles Fund investees’: Awash Wines, Beloxxi Industries, BPIL, and Eagle Chemicals.

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We’re proud to report that B Magazine has named Vital Capital a Top 5 GIIRS-rated funds setting the gold standard in impact investing.

The independent nonprofit B Lab* created the GIIRS rating system to help fund managers assess and verify the impacts of their portfolio companies. The companies are scored based on their performance on the B Impact Assessment, which is administered by B Lab and incorporates IRIS metrics. Each fund then undergoes a verification process at B Lab to become a GIIRS-rated fund.

To learn more about GIIRS criteria: http://bftw.bthechange.com/the-funds/