As the most veteran impact investor at the World Economic Forum, Eytan Stibbe, Founding Partner of Vital Capital, was invited to moderate the Multilateral Meeting on Impact Investing & speak at the session Scaling Up Solutions for Supply Chain Traceability. The Multilateral Meeting brought together key members who champion impact investing to jointly design the Forum’s impact agenda into 2020.

The London Stock Exchange Group launched their second edition of the Companies to Inspire Africa Report.

In their second report LSEG included 360 companies from 32 countries who they see as high-growth firms that are crucial to the future of the African economy, capable of driving transformative economic growth in their home countries, Africa and beyond. Congratulations to Vital portfolio companies featured.

For the full report: https://www.lseg.com/resources/companies-inspire-africa/companies-inspire-africa-2019

The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is the pre-eminent global platform for investment and development. The Forum devises strategies and solutions for global investment and development challenges. At the 2018 forum, Founding Partner, Eytan Stibbe shared experience of the operation of an inclusive business model for agricultural

Founding Partner, Eytan Stibbe, was invited to share Vital’s lessons on fusing agriculture production with social development at the UN Conference on Trade and Development and the IFPRI launch of their seventh annual Global Food Policy Report.

IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report examines the impacts of global integration—including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge—and the threat of current antiglobalization pressures.

For the full report: https://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=1802

ImpactAssets is a nonprofit financial services firm that increases the flow of capital into investments delivering financial, social and environmental returns.

ImpactAssets’ donor advised fund (“The Giving Fund”) currently has $424M in total assets. The IA 50 is the first publicly available database that provides a gateway into the world of impact investing for investors and their financial advisors, offering an easy way to identify experienced impact investment firms and explore the landscape of potential investment options. These 50 firms have been selected to demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.

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/