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Greetings, Agents of Impact! In this week’s LP/GP: Featured: Overheard in Europe At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as …
Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds secures $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers. Three years ago, the Canadian government set aside $755 million to jumpstart the country’s social finance market (see, “Canada’s Social Finance Fund aims to build an investment ecosystem with ‘wholesale’ impact capital”). The bet is paying off: Realize Capital (Edge) raised an additional $141.7 million in private capital to more than match the government’s $135 million anchor investment. Over two-thirds of Realize Capital’s more than two-dozen limited partners were first-time investors with the fund of funds. The firm’s backers include Royal Bank of Canada, Concordia University, Canadian Medical Association, and the Metcalf, Toronto, Waterloo Region Community, McConnell and Trottier Family foundations. “There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the importance of government initiatives to accelerate investment from Canadian wealth holders into domestic companies and projects that improve the lives of Canadians,” said Realize Capital’s Kelly Gauthier. “With this final close achieved, we believe Realize Fund I can provide a blueprint for achieving exactly that.”
How Capria is leveraging AI to support, not outsource, investment analysis. A little randomness can be useful in brainstorming. In investment decisions, it can be disastrous. One of the biggest challenges that Capria Ventures (Edge) has faced since going “AI native” in 2023 has been taming large language models that can produce different answers to the same question, explains Capria’s Francis Perelman. The firm has integrated AI into its workflows, from investing, marketing and investor relations to compliance and reporting. From the outset, the Seattle-based GP, which invests in the Global South, committed to “never outsource our thinking to it, let it reshape our thesis, or allow it to substitute our judgment,” Perelman writes in a guest post on ImpactAlpha. “The call is still ours and will remain ours until we see the model making better decisions than we can.”
Michiru Toda joins the management team of SIIFIC Wellness Fund. He is continuing in his current roles at Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation, a co-manager of the Wellness Fund, and with GSG Impact Japan… Serena Ventures has an opening to support investment and due diligence on its team in New York… Education and skills-focused nonprofit Britebound is looking for a director of mission impact investing… The William Penn Foundation is recruiting a communications officer, based in Philadelphia… Village Capital is hiring an investment officer for its pilot Innovative Capital Facility for Northwest Arkansas.
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