Innovative Finance Initiative (IFI)
Initiative
Innovative Finance Initiative
Built to create a community where funders and intermediaries tackle common challenges prohibiting capital from flowing in distributed, just and fit-for-purpose ways. Mapping legal innovators, catalytic capital designers, fund architects, and impact-linked finance practitioners.
Geography
Actor Type
IntermediaryYears in Impact Space
5Expertise Areas
Tags
Intervention Points
Catalytic Capital Deployment
Capital Structuring — Deploying capital on concessionary terms to unlock impact that conventional capital cannot.
Legal & Governance Innovation
Governance — Creating legal structures that enable mission-lock, stewardship, and accountability.
Fund Architecture & Design
Capital Structuring — Designing fund structures that serve impact objectives while meeting investor needs.
Network
Theory of Change
Clarity in the impact investing space — finding trusted actors and experts — is the key enabler for capital to flow in ways that are distributed, just and fit-for-purpose.
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Related Actors
Katapult Foundation
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Astrid Nielsen
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Katarina Novotná
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Empower Social Labs
Nicole Beaumont
Director of Impact Strategy
Pathfinder Advisory