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Vital Capital Managing Partner Nimrod Gerber recently offered his insights for a Financial Times article about the relationship between impact investing and ESG. Among other leading sustainable investors, Gerber shared his perspective on the significant untapped opportunities for impact investing across Africa.

“You’re going to have a billion new consumers very soon consuming potable water, basic healthcare, better food, infrastructure, and education,” Gerber explained. “Silicon Valley is not looking at how to solve these huge challenges in Africa. Creative, smart African entrepreneurs that live the problems are developing the solutions. It’s a winning formula.”

Read the full article here.

Vital Capital is pleased to be named Private Equity Manager of the Year in the 2023 Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards. Environmental Finance, a key source of sustainable investment news, conducts the awards annually to honor the world’s leaders in the impact and ESG investing space.

Vital was selected for this year’s prestigious award from a group of sustainably-focused global fund managers, recognizing the firm’s excellence in maximizing investment performance and our track record of achieving social and environmental impact. The award is a testament to the Vital team’s work and collaboration with thoughtful investees, who are impactfully reallocating capital toward the world’s most underserved populations. We are honored to be among the leading firms driving transformational impact for those who need it most.

“The entire Vital team is deeply proud to be recognized as Environmental Finance’s ‘Private Equity Manager of the Year,’ and I am especially pleased by what this award signals about the impact investing industry’s maturation,” said Managing Partner Nimrod Gerber. “Since our founding in 2011, Vital has insisted on the very real opportunity to achieve more: transformational impact for people who need it most and good returns for our investors.”

Read more about why Vital was selected for this year’s award here. 

Vital Capital’s Head of ESG & Impact Tamar Pashtan recently joined a panel of impact investing leaders to discuss one of the industry’s most pressing topics: alignment in impact performance reporting. The discussion, hosted by impact verification firm BlueMark, was based on research from the firm’s latest report, ‘Raising the Bar: Aligning on the Key Elements of Impact Performance Reporting.’

High-quality, standardized impact performance reporting is critical for ensuring industry integrity. However, the lack of widely-accepted standards or guidelines for reporting on impact performance makes it difficult to meaningfully analyze and compare impact results. 

BlueMark’s analysis of 31 GP impact reports and interviews with 57 diverse industry stakeholders found that impact objectives vary considerably in their specificity; reported impact results are often cherry-picked; impact reports are rarely forthcoming about risks or failures; and reporters often overlook the stakeholder perspective.

The panel, moderated by BlueMark Managing Director Sarah Gelfand, featured Tamar; Fran Seegull, President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and Executive Director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing; Elizabeth Seeger, Managing Director, Sustainable Investing at KKR; and Bhavika Vyas, Managing Director at StepStone Group. They delved into the current state of impact performance reporting among GPs and fund managers, best practices, and potential pathways to improve the quality and usefulness of impact reports going forward.

Listen to the full discussion here.