GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AMPLIFY CAPITAL Backs impact-focused founders who relentlessly solve urgent and material challenges in the education, healthcare, and environment sectors. Its 2030 Impact Goals include healthcare: 30 million patients with improved health outcomes and $1 billion in healthcare costs saved; education: 25 million students across North America prepared for a future of work success; environment: 88 Megatons of CO2 emissions reduced. One of its portfolio company's, EarlyBird Education, is transforming lives through early detection of literacy challenges, including predicting risk for dyslexia. Using a cloud-based technology platform, EarlyBird’s gamebased application provides comprehensive, validated student testing and teacher resources to support children as young as four years to assess dyslexia risk. EarlyBird has built a base of over 10,000 students in 17 US states and 160 schools. www.AmplifyCapital.ca MEDICAL CREDIT FUND Specializes in providing loans and technical assistance to private small- and medium healthcare enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, MCF has disbursed more than 7,500 loans worth EUR 150 million, reaching over 2,000 healthcare providers – typically small healthcare providers that need financing to cover gaps in working capital or to invest in expansion or equipment. “In the end, it's not about the loan,” says Arjan Poels, managing director. “The loan is just a means to an end. It's about improving healthcare quality in the communities. We accompany all loans that we give with business and quality support, and training and make sure the loans are tailored to the needs of the healthcare providers and support them in making investment plans to help them grow and improve in quality.” www.MedicalCreditFund.org 1ST COURSE CAPITAL EMERGING IMPACT FUND MANAGER An early-stage venture capital firm investing in business models and technologies disrupting how we grow, produce, and distribute food. Out of Fund I, it has invested in 17 companies working on innovations across the supply chain. An accelerator, Food System 6, has graduated 7 cohorts and maintains a 90% survival rate, 50% female founders, 50% female/BIPOC/LGBTQ+ founders, and over $40 million raised. Food systems are undergoing a massive transformation driven by a widespread consumer recognition of both depletion of natural resources and the negative health impacts of an industrialized and proceeds food diet. 1CC seeks to invest in the leaders of a new food system. www.1cc.vc BLUME EQUITY EMERGING IMPACT FUND MANAGER Cofounded by three senior female investment professionals. A thematic growth equity fund investing in techenabled companies that drive sustainable outcomes across Europe. It drives social and environmental outcomes across three sustainability themes: sustainable food, responsible consumption, and healthy living. Recent investments include Matsmart-Motatos, a pan-European e-commerce business tackling food waste and selling high-quality food items to end consumers at significant discounts and Elvie, a company creating high-quality products in under-innovated areas of women’s health including breast pumps and pelvic floor trainers. Femtech is an investment area Blume is particularly focused on as it has been incredibly underfunded to date, receiving just 3% of all digital health funding. www.BlumeEquity.com JOIN THE MILLION TREE CHALLENGE While some leaders talk about sustainability, you can actually get trees in the ground. Join the Million Tree Challenge to support reforestation in our iconic National Forests. ONETREEPLANTED.ORG/MILLION 800-408-7850 JOIN THE CHALLENGE
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