Direct Investing in Impact Founders Grant
In context
This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and social enterprises, at pre-seed, seed stage and Series A. Funding is an equity investment. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country.
Early-stage equity investment fund backing mission-driven startups addressing healthcare, climate, education, and financial access. Investors can participate in funding rounds for companies solving these global challenges.
About this grant
One World is a single-family office that invests in mission-driven companies building solutions to environmental and social problems. The organization invests family office and family foundation capital in alignment with values-based investing principles, focusing on early-stage companies addressing healthcare, climate, education, and financial access challenges. Beyond direct investments, One World provides advisory services to peer family offices seeking to articulate their purpose and scale their impact investments. The investment approach aims to activate capital for entrepreneurs building solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges while helping other families accelerate positive change through values-aligned investment strategies.
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Eligibility
The organization invests in early-stage companies solving healthcare, climate, education, and financial access challenges. Specific eligibility criteria for founders or companies are not detailed on this page. The organization also offers advisory services to family offices and family foundations seeking values-aligned investments.
Key requirements
- ✓Mission-driven company addressing healthcare, climate, education, or financial access
- ✓Early-stage company seeking equity investment
- ✓Track record of 35 companies funded to date suggests established selection criteria
Funder contact
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Direct Investing in Impact Founders?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, sme, social-enterprise. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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Climate adaptation funding helps communities, infrastructure and businesses prepare for heat, flooding, drought and sea level rise. Most of it is public and multilateral money, often targeted at vulnerable regions and delivered with local government. Calls usually ask for a climate risk assessment and evidence that local people shaped the plan.
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