About Us

We help our clients to become more intentional about impact

Innovest Advisory is an impact investment advisory firm helping our clients to become more intentional about impact and embed impact into their processes.

We help our clients to achieve targeted social and environmental outcomes, bringing extensive experience from the development, climate change and broader environmental sectors together with capital markets into the evolving impact investment field.

We work with fund managers, asset owners, companies, international organisations and non-profits across a broad range of sectors including but not limited to infrastructure, financial inclusion, renewable energy, agribusiness, climate change, job creation and women’s economic empowerment.

Our Core Values

Our core values are central to who we are and how we operate. Developed by all the members of our team, they shape our culture and help us make decisions.

We build partnerships

We are a trusted impact intermediary that connects capital with impact opportunities to achieve deep social, environmental and climate impact

We are purposeful about impact

We infuse purpose into all aspects of our work to drive meaningful change

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We are pioneering

We forge innovative paths to find new solutions to age old challenges

We act with integrity

We are guided by a strong moral impulse to do the right thing and we advocate for strong values that create deep impact among all our stakeholders

Our Clients

BOXA is an award-winning construction tech company that designs sustainable, rapid-build, relocatable, smart green spaces.

Kaah Islamic Microfinance (KIMS) was established in March 2013 as the first microfinance service institution in the Somali regions.

Newmont is creating a community investment vehicle to stimulate economic diversification and job creation at its two gold mining communities in Ghana

The only commercial juicing company operating in Sierra Leone and exports tropical fruit to EU and North American Markets.

Better Shelter is a leading humanitarian shelter specialist. Structured as a social enterprise, formed out of a collaboration between UNHCR and the IKEA Foundation in 2013.

Democrance enables insurers to access new market segments, particularly in emerging and mobile-first markets. Large and previously untapped customer bases can now be reached profitably, by allowing low-income, uninsured or under-insured populations to buy, pay for, use and claim for insurance through mobile and other digital channels.

Moolah is a Kenyan-based SME that provides credit funding to dairy farmers who have no financial history by recognising a farmer’s assets

Tez is the first fully-digital financial institution in Pakistan providing frictionless financial access to the unbanked and under-banked.

Choco4Peace operates in post-conflict regions by providing cacao growers with access to markets, financial models and blockchain technology

Near East Foundation supports livelihoods recovery and community-based economic development in the Middle East, Africa and the Caucasus.

The Pearl Initiative is a network of business leaders committed to driving more effective philanthropy for sustained impact.

Crown Agents is an international development company committed to global development and growth.

The Crann Centre has the vision to provide lifelong, life-changing support for individuals and their families who are living with a neuro-physical disability

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Working in crises in more than 30 countries, helping to save lives and rebuild futures.

AFFORD is an innovative blended finance initiative that provides a scalable investment solution for much-needed affordable house construction in Rwanda.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) is a development agency that is dedicated to supporting the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Silatech is implementing a regional impact investment portfolio focusing on sustainable job creation for youth

USAID developed a $5m pilot Responsible Gold Innovation Fund to overcome barriers in scaling the export of responsible artisanal gold from the DRC.

Alpha Associates, a Swiss manager with $8 billion AUM, is launching a new Impact Fund of Funds to address climate change and social inequality.

Developing World Markets is an emerging and frontier markets investment manager, dedicated to making return-first impact investments that seek risk-appropriate returns for our investors and measurable environmental or social benefits for the developing world.

CIM is an impact-first investor providing patient capital to SMEs and microfinance institutions in fragile and conflict-affected communities

Fable Homes is an innovative technology-driven fund converting “Generation Rent” to “Generation Own” in the UK property market.

IFFAC will provide grants, investments, incubation and acceleration to the creative industries in Africa.

Energy Growth Momentum is a private equity fund investing in operational and digital technology for a low-carbon, low-cost sustainable future.

Acumen Is a refugee-lens venture accelerator with the aim to enhance investment readiness of target companies

The Landscape Resilience Fund mobilises finance for communities, conservation, and commerce

Blue Earth Capital is a Guernsey-based fund offering private market strategies to invest in companies and assets to address the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Restitution Impact has a determined focus to restitute stolen assets to sovereigns means strong returns for investors and makes Restitution a powerful engine to empower democratic, anti-corruption-focused governments fight corruption through enforcement.

EG Capital makes private equity investments in the Health, Food and Education sectors in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies in Africa.

Valloop unlocks wealth by empowering employees and management to buy the companies they work for, creating value for investors and driving societal change. A radically different approach to buy-outs through its employee ownership-focused model, Valloop’s fund gives investors the opportunity to back SMEs – one of the most underrated asset classes in the world.

World Impact Capital is launching an impact fund that will seek simultaneously to generate risk-adjusted, market-rate financial returns, aiming to increase women’s economic opportunity and sustainable employment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Novus Capital Limited is a financial services firm that specialises in commercial projects in the East and West African region that are underserved by both debt and equity products to finance growth, acquisition and expansion.

Our Partners

A Pan-African network which promotes collaboration among social investors to achieve social impact across the continent.

GSG brings together impact leaders to solve some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

A networking platform for impact players to share knowledge and promote collaboration in impact investing.

The III seeks to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market.

A member network that promotes Jersey as the clear leader in future-focused international finance

The Oxford Impact Investing Programme, a leading programme developing business solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems.

Promoting Guernsey’s financial services sector internationally.