IMPACT INVESTOR SERVICES
We identify and support investors from around the world who want to invest financial and human capital in companies that are achieving quadruple bottom line impact.
A Radical Impact Investing Marketplace
Impact investing offers an exciting paradigm for global impact. This relatively new asset class aims for both financial returns and social impact. And, impact investors need not settle for below market returns. According to recent research, 91% of impact investors report portfolio performance that overwhelmingly meets or exceeds their expectations (GIIN 2019 Annual Impact Investing Survey). For more information about impact investing click here.
Sapient is building a secure and robust Marketplace that is exclusively focused on impact investing. We enable impact investors to find QBL investment opportunities globally that fit their objectives and criteria. But, we are more than a database to search for deals. We offer an analytics-driven investment system with tools and resources to help you manage the entire workflow of the investment process.
Monitoring
Closing the investment just starts the fun! We provide tools for companies you invest in to communicate with you on a regular basis so that you know how to serve them post-transaction. We also provide you with a your own dashboard to receive personalized content, manage your community activity, and monitor your impact investing portfolio,
Sourcing
Use the combined networks of Sapient and its global partners, we are able to attract a growing number of quality impact companies representing a wide variety of regions and causes.
Vetting
You begin with a search of our database of pre-qualified companies based on your profile and criteria. Once you find a match, we make the connection in our private communication system and the company grants you access to their virtual data room. You can also invite others in your network to help you evaluate the company and co-invest.
Closing
We provide a secure system to negotiate and close the financing contract, archive contracts from all of your Sapient Marketplace investments, and an escrow account in which to wire funds that are released according to contractual contingencies.
Designed for Everyone to Make an Impact
Accredited & Non-Accredited Investors
We believe everyone should be involved in using their time, talent, and treasure to make an impact. So, we provide financial investment structures, such as crowdfunding and DAFs ("Donor Advised Funds")* that enable non-accredited investors to participate.
Financial & Human Capital Investments
Companies need more than financial capital to build sustainable and growing businesses. We provide tools to connect investors with aligned companies to invest their time and talent as a mentor, volunteer, Board member, advisory board member, or interim executive team member.
Impact Investing & Philanthropy
Sometimes the best companies to address a problem or cause you care about are for-profit companies and sometimes they are non-profit organizations. So, we integrate philanthropic opportunities into the Marketplace to increase the range of options you have to make a difference.
Advocacy for Every Step of Your Impact Journey
Whether you are just beginning to explore impact investing or are a rugged pioneer who has been on this journey for years, we offer original and curated impact investing research and trends, an engaging and collaborative community, models of successful impact investments, networking, investor field trips, events, and more.
Let us know how we can help you explore, begin, or accelerate your impact investing journey!
*Tax-deductible grants to a donor advised fund (DAF). DAF's are an ideal structure for early stage ventures. Investors receive the same financial return they receive for any other charitable contribution (a tax deduction) but have the potential to increase their charitable capital from any returns generated by their investment in a QBL company. We have relationships with a DAF for U.S. investors and a DAF for investors outside the U.S. that can facilitate investments into social impact companies. To learn more, contact us.