Global Infrastructure SherpaRabobank launches Rabo Impact Foundation with an initial endowment of €102 million, targeting €1 billion for impact investments
Netherlands-based cooperative bank Rabobank launched the Rabo Impact Foundation with an initial endowment of €102 million (USD$118 million). The foundation aims to scale to €1 billion (USD$1.2 billion) over time, focusing on impact projects and ventures in areas like energy transition, food system transitions, circularity, water, healthcare, and affordable housing. The platform will target around twenty investments per year, with impact loans starting at €2 million and equity investments in impact ventures starting at €1 million.
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- Initial endowment of €102 million, targeting €1 billion.
- Aims for approximately twenty investments per year.
- Impact loans start at €2 million; equity investments at €1 million.
- Rabobank, a food & agriculture focused bank, expands into energy, housing, and healthcare projects.
Source Intelligence
The foundation aims to scale to €1 billion (USD$1.2 billion) over time. The platform will focus on six areas with significant societal impact potential, including the energy and food system transitions, circularity, water, healthcare and affordable housing. The foundation will target three types of activities, including large-scale projects developing new sustainable markets or infrastructure (impact projects), innovative sustainable concepts, and ventures that have moved beyond the start-up phase but are not yet attractive to conventional investors (impact ventures). The platform aims for around twenty investments per year, spread across direct financing, indirect lending, and impact ventures, with impact loans for projects and innovative sustainable concepts starting at €2 million, and equity investments in impact ventures starting at €1 million.
"Rabobank announced the launch of the Rabo Impact Foundation, a new platform aimed at investing in projects and businesses tackling societal challenges, ranging from energy transition to affordable housing. The foundation is being launched with an initial endowment of €102 million (USD$118 million) from Rabobank"
"Rabobank announced the launch of the Rabo Impact Foundation, a new platform aimed at investing in projects and businesses tackling societal challenges"
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