Investing in New Zealand businesses that provide tangible
social or environmental returns from their operations, alongside attractive financial returns.
ABOUT
New Zealand’s first domestically-focused committed impact venture fund
The Impact Enterprise Fund (IEF) provided growth capital to businesses that deliver social and/or environmental impact, alongside attractive financial returns. The Fund has two primary objectives: delivering market-rate financial returns, and delivering tangible societal and environmental outcomes.
The successful launch of the IEF coincided with a period of rapid growth in impact investing globally, with funds under management growing to more than US$715b in 2020. This growth reflects an increasing desire from investors to make investment decisions that align with their values.
Target sectors
Global Impact Funds under Management US$billion
The most commonly targeted industries by impact investors include:
founding partners
New Ground Capital is an Auckland-based investment manager specialising in the development and management of innovative and impactful investments. In all its investing activities New Ground looks at investments from both a financial and social return perspective, believing that investments making a strong societal or environmental impact can also be the most sustainable and financially rewarding over the long term.
Impact Ventures provides impact investment and corporate finance advisory services. The members of Impact Ventures have significant Investment Banking experience, providing expertise to the Fund in the areas of; deal evaluation, structuring and execution, capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advice.
Akina was New Zealand’s leading impact development organisation. Akina worked to help establish an impact economy that measures and values the powerful potential of enterprises and businesses to deliver positive change for our people and our environment. Akina was unfortunately disestablished in April 2025.
Portfolio Companies
Click through to the websites of our portfolio companies, or read about each of them on the portfolio page.
