Innovative Impact Fund Managers 2022

WINTER 2022 / REAL-LEADERS.COM 9 DEVELOPING WORLD MARKETS Seeks investible solutions that address the social, environmental, and economic needs of the developing world. Since 1999, DWM has invested or arranged nearly $2.5 billion in financing for 250 environmentally and socially positive companies in 50 emerging and frontier market countries. DWM’s portfolio companies served more than 16.8 million total clients by the end of 2021. Its investees serve groups that face significant barriers to accessing financial services, including women (77%), people who live in rural areas (63%), and poor and lowincome people (74%). Many of its portfolio companies offer products geared toward climate change mitigation and resilience and are helping its investees assess their preparedness for climate risks. www.DWMarkets.com NO POVERTY ACCION A global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. It catalyzes financial service providers to deliver high-quality, affordable solutions at scale for the 1.8 billion people who are left out of — or poorly served by — the financial sector. For 60 years, Accion has helped tens of millions of people through its work with more than 170 partners in 55 countries. Through equity and quasi-equity investments in inclusive fintech startups, microfinance institutions, and other FSPs, Accion helps create well-run, mission-driven, and efficient organizations that achieve scale, impact, and returns. www.Accion.org BAMBOO CAPITAL PARTNERS Across the world and even more acutely in emerging and frontier markets, the pandemic, emerging global recession, climate crisis, and worsening food insecurity have deepened inequality, with vulnerable households, small- and medium-sized enterprises, daily wage earners and the self-employed, being hit hardest. Bamboo Capital Partners provides innovative financing solutions to businesses in emerging markets serving the needs of low- and middle-income populations to catalyze lasting impact. Since its inception, Bamboo has raised $450 million and invested in over 30 developing countries. Investee companies have positively impacted more than 193 million lives and supported over 48,000 jobs, including 17,900 jobs for women. www.BambooCP.com INCOFIN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Manages more than EUR 1.1 billion and helps entrepreneurs in emerging economies improve their living conditions — often vulnerable people at the base of society's pyramid. It reaches 50 million end beneficiaries (61% of them women and 66% live in rural areas), focusing on financial inclusion, sustainable agriculture, nutritious food, and increased access to safe drinking water. The company is led by two CEOs. "It’s a logical outcome of Incofin's corporate culture," says Geert Peetermans, co-CEO. “The management board has been always a collective decisionmaking body, so the co-CEO structure fits in the culture of shared leadership that has been present at the top throughout." www.Incofin.com LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND (LIIF) A national community development financial institution (CDFI), headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., that invests in communities of opportunity, equity, and well-being. As a CDFI, LIIF supports projects that have high social value but lack access to traditional financial institutions. Since 1984, it has deployed more than $2.7 billion to serve more than two million people in communities across the country from its five offices. An S&P-rated organization, LIIF funds healthy communities by providing innovative capital solutions. www.LIIFund.org LEAPFROG INVESTMENTS LeapFrog invests in exceptional businesses in Africa and Asia, partnering with their leaders to achieve leaps of growth, profitability, and social impact. It supports, designs, and scales highly impactful, tech-enabled interventions in healthcare and financial services across the emerging world. Founded in 2007, LeapFrog’s portfolio companies now reach 342 million people across 30 countries. The firm has raised over $2 billion from global institutional investors, including $500 million recently committed by Temasek to LeapFrog and its future funds. www.LeapfrogInvest.com “The management board has been always a collective decision-making body, so the co-CEO structure fits in the culture of shared leadership.” — GEERT PEETERMANS, INCOFIN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INNOVATIVE IMPACT FUND MANAGERS 2022 IN COLLABORATION WITH

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