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Latin America is one of the leading emerging markets for impact investment. There are many opportunities to invest money into privately held enterprises that are having a very positive impact on local communities, the environment and profit. New for-profit impact investment funds are emerging and showing that significant financial returns from non-public market investments can be generated while significantly helping people and protecting the planet.
During this fireside-style chat facilitated by Josh Knauer from JumpScale, we’ll be exploring the overall landscape for impact investors in Latin America while digging into two very different funds that are currently active in the region. The Brazil-based UTU Fund has created a very unique investment model that helps to build capacity in local communities in order for them to more effectively negotiate large cash settlements with extractive companies that have negatively impacted their communities. The IMPAQTO Fund was launched to invest in underestimated founders and companies that better the lives of agricultural workers; of indigenous people, that protect habitats and regenerate and conserve ecosystems.
Check out this recent feature of IMPAQTO in this Forbes article, “How IMPAQTO Is Redefining Social Entrepreneurship In South America.”
Speakers
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Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter, Founder & CEO, IMPAQTO - Social entrepreneur, impact investor and human rights lawyer. Michelle is the CEO and co-founder of IMPAQTO, the B-Corporation that builds impact ecosystems through coworking, business acceleration programs, social innovation consulting and impact investing in Latin America.
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Vasco van Roosmalen, Founder, UTU Fund - Over the last 15 years, Vasco M. van Roosmalen has worked with over 25 indigenous communities in helping them create the technical and financial management tools for the protection of their traditional lands. A naturalized Brazilian citizen, Vasco has a master’s degree in environmental public policy sciences from the University of Nijmegen and is the director and co-founder of the Brazilian NGO ECAM.
Moderator
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Josh Knauer, General Partner, JumpScale - Josh has been a serial responsible tech entrepreneur, advisor to President Obama and highly sought-after speaker at corporate events and conferences. Two of the companies he founded, Green Marketplace and Rhiza, were acquired by publicly traded companies. Both ventures were bootstrapped and profitable from the start and adhered to triple bottom line management practices, balancing people, planet and profit. Josh currently advises impact investors on how to align their investments and philanthropic activities with their values through his latest partnership, JumpScale.
In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, CNote, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.
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