Despite traction in gendered approaches to investment across multiple platforms, women still represent an underutilized force for sustainable development and remain underserved in terms of access to capital, market linkages, and resources needed to improve their economic position. Closing the gender gap is not only a social imperative but also a key ingredient in fueling economic growth.
Highlights from the October Impact Snapshot:
- “IIX ACTS participant SolarHome, a Singapore-based clean energy enterprise, has closed a pre-Series A round…”
- “Investors from IIX’s Impact Partners platform who invested in India-based enterprise Kinara Capital achieved an exit this month…”
- “IIX completes a successful three-year run of its award-winning IIX ACTS program with support from USAID, impacting over 4.4 million…”
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The recent McKinsey & Company report ‘Impact Investing Finds its Place in India’ is an interesting read with some valid insights on impact investing in India. However, having been in the impact investing space in India for more than a decade, I have witnessed the pendulum of impact investing swinging away from India towards other high-potential countries of South and South East Asia and believe it is time to zoom into the new frontier markets which have proven strong economic growth with high impact potential.