Bay Bridge Ventures is an Institutional ESG and Sustainability focused venture capital firm, purpose-built from the ground up as a diverse-owned and managed organization investing in scalable, profitable, and impactful companies across technology sectors while providing transparency through its industry-leading impact reporting process.
Bay Bridge Ventures was founded on the belief that solutions to the world’s hardest environmental and social problems will be accelerated by the advancement of foundational technologies, such as AI & Big Data, Advanced Computing, Sensors & IoT, High-Bandwidth Connectivity, Energy Storage, Robotics and Synthetic Biology.
With a world-class team and scalable institutional investment strategy centered around meeting sophisticated ESG, DEI and Sustainability investment mandates, Bay Bridge Ventures invests in early to mid-stage companies supporting Climate Tech, Health Innovation and Inclusive Capitalism.
One of the largest mission-aligned firms in the world, Capricorn Investment Group was born from a belief that sustainable investment practices can enhance risk-adjusted returns. Underlying this investment approach is a deep desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. With offices in New York City and Palo Alto, the firm has grown to manage more than $10 billion in multi-asset class portfolios for families, foundations and institutional investors.
We guide affluent Black and Brown households towards building and sustaining wealth in a values-aligned fashion. We show them how to leverage their income to build wealth for themselves and future generations while doing good in the world.
Our team takes these trailblazing households from a confused, overwhelmed, and lonely position to an abundant, intentional and clear path towards their wealthy financial future.
Our goal is to become the preeminent Black-owned wealth management firm and meaningfully contribute to closing the racial wealth gap. We want to break down systemic barriers between the wealthy, privileged and the rest of us. By opening up access to wealth-building tools and access to world-class financial advice, we aim to end the days of minority households being underserved and ignored. Our firm believes deeply in the power of the dollar, therefore we want to make sure more of the dollars rest with us.
JFFVentures mission is to invest in founders with lived experience who are building technology companies that enable the economic mobility of low-wage workers. JFFV operates in partnership with a leading national nonprofit, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a 40-year-old organization with deep networks and expertise in education and workforce development. JFF works with various partners, including employers, educational institutions, and policymakers, to design and implement innovative strategies to create career pathways and improve economic opportunities for workers.
JFFV provides early-stage capital to founders with lived-experience who are closer to the problems they are seeking to solve; increasing access to quality and affordable learning and skilling solutions, access to career navigation and job placement; access to benefits and supports specifically designed for low-wage workers and ultimately increasing access to quality jobs and economic mobility.
Maycomb Capital is a pioneering impact investing platform. We provide financing across asset classes to fund strategies and enterprises that transform communities.
At Maycomb, we know that the world’s problems demand patience, creativity and an appreciation for complexity. We drive capital toward effective solutions for underserved communities, using data and rigorous analysis to guide our decisions. We identify scalable and sustainable paths to positive change, tackling entrenched social and economic challenges. By harnessing the scale, expertise and risk tolerance of the private sector in service of the public good, we’re demonstrating what’s possible with mission-focused, flexible capital.
Our approach is informed by deep expertise in finance, entrepreneurship and social justice. Co-founders Andi Phillips and Liz Luckett, both experienced investment professionals with diverse professional backgrounds, joined forces to address market gaps in impact investing. The team’s engaged approach leverages significant operational expertise and technical skills across sectors.
Our flagship funds transform underserved communities in two different - but complementary - ways:
- The Community Outcomes Fund (TCOF) provides outcomes-based (also known as pay-for-success) financing that match private capital with local priorities, realigning government programs with evidence-based solutions to social challenges
- The Social Entrepreneurs Fund (TSEF) makes early-stage equity investments in the most promising entrepreneurs, upending traditional business models to create sustainable change
We’re named for Maycomb County, the setting of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee used Maycomb, a fictional district in Depression-era Alabama, as a backdrop for her universal story of the pursuit of justice. Her story sparked conversations about equity that still resonate today. Maycomb seeks to continue this dialogue, bringing innovative ideas to light through action.
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More on The Community Outcomes Fund (TCOF):
It is estimated that the U.S. spends $800 billion annually on human service programs, yet government leaders agree that less than 1% of these expenditures are backed by evidence that these services actually work. Outcomes-based financings, also known as Pay for Success, are next-generation public-private partnerships that offer a promising way to combine market discipline with performance management. The approach enables federal, state and local governments to partner with high performing service providers and use private capital to expand social programs. Government identifies a priority and target population, sizes the targeted impact and then identifies a service provider with the capacity to deliver meaningful outcomes successfully. Investors provide the upfront working capital to scale services, shifting the risk of impact from the government to the private sector and are repaid based on demonstrated outcomes.
The Community Outcomes Fund is a dedicated pool of capital to invest in outcomes-based financing opportunities. Through our investments, we expect to spur tangible impact in low-income communities, help hold stakeholders accountable for results, and ultimately begin to move the needle on how those government dollars are spent.
SJF Ventures invests in high-growth companies creating a healthier, smarter and cleaner future. Our mission is to catalyze the development of highly successful businesses driving lasting, positive changes.
Sonen Capital is the leading provider of Impact OCIO services. Working with foundations, endowments, institutions, and families we provide investment and advisory services customized to meet our clients' mandates. As an employee-owned B Corporation, we are committed to integrating social and environmental impact into every aspect of the investment process to deliver on your financial and impact goals.
TIR provides innovative, forest-based investment offerings that optimize long-term performance while contributing to community resilience and environmental sustainability. TIR's new impact fund will execute this time-tested mission in a new way by offering a community-centered approach to investing across the value chain of forestry and forestry-related markets, targeting rural areas with high poverty and latent forestry market potential.
