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Investments

Our priority areas

Healthcare

Improving the health of children and families and ensuring children no longer die of preventative illnesses

  • Health tech innovations
  • Mental health enterprises
  • Disability access and support enterprises

Education

Greater access to quality education; ensuring that girls and boys learn in safe and positive environments, from an early age.

  • Education technology and e-learning
  • Vocational education
  • Education in emergencies

Child Protection

Ensuring children are safe at all times, and preventing their exposure to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence

  • Child-safe organisations
  • Gender-based and family violence enterprises
  • Child-labour-free supply chains

Related Themes

Building the economic capacity and the organisations and infrastructure needed to enable social impact and/or social mobility.

  • Climate Change
  • Agriculture & Nutrition
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Emergency Preparedness and Response

About Fund I

The Australian Impact Investment Fund I provides loans and equity investment to enterprises that are improving the lives of vulnerable children and families.

We focus on enterprises that: 1) have positive impact at the core of their business; 2) are already generating revenue; 3) have passionate and talented founders and teams; and 4) have a strong and scalable business model

Flexible financing ranges from from AUD $250,000 – $750,000 to both not-for-profit and for-profit organisations. Enterprises can be in Australia or overseas.

Key Information:

  • Status: Closed to new investors
  • Trustee and fund manager: Save the Children Impact Fund Limited
  • Amount-Total fund size (AU$): 7.5 million
  • Duration: 10 years, closed fund
  • First investment: January 2021
  • Financial return: Targeting 7% IRR

While Fund I is closed for investments and has exited its deployment stage, we have several affiliated funds supported by Save the Children Global Ventures (SCGV). Learn more at scgv.org.

Investment Principles

Our Investment Mission
  • To source, fund and assist businesses that make an enormous positive impact on children’s lives.
  • To accelerate solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems, whilst helping entrepreneurs and start-ups grow.
Our Investment Objectives
  • To generate income, capital returns and deep social impact from investing in enterprises that are working to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families.
  • Providing patient and flexible capital.
  • Investing in companies operating in fields where Save the Children has deep expertise and practical experience, so we can support solutions to scale.

 

Gender Focus: Delivering on the 2X Criteria

Our gender reporting at 30 June 2023:

  • > 35% funds deployed to Female Founded Enterprises
  • >30% of our Board and Investment Committee members are women
  • > 50% of our enterprises disproportionately benefit girls and women

For Ventures

Our ventures span the globe and focus on impact first.  Find out more about who we’ve supported and what we look for in an organisation.