LGT Venture Philanthropy
VC Fund
Zürich, Switzerland
LGT Venture Philanthropy is an impact investor supporting organizations with outstanding social and environmental impact. Our team in six continents strives to increase the sustainable quality of life of less advantaged people by inspiring clients for active philanthropy, providing individualized philanthropic advice and investment implementation.Our broad range of clients benefits from the exper
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries LGT Venture Philanthropy invests in
Stages LGT Venture Philanthropy invests in
Countries LGT Venture Philanthropy invests in
Contacts
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4 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Charity 3 (23%)
- Non Profit 3 (23%)
- Environmental Consulting 3 (23%)
- Health Care 2 (15%)
- Natural Resources 2 (15%)
Stage
- Grant 9 (69%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- India 5 (38%)
- Kenya 2 (15%)
- United States 2 (15%)
- South Africa 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Archish Gupta, CFA
Investment Professional
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Investment Professional | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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M-KOPA
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M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more. | $75M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2022 | |
Nature for Water
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Nature for Water works together with local champions to develop best-in-class watershed investment programs that deliver outcomes for people and nature.Nature for Water is committed to mainstreaming nature-based Solutions in the water sector by sharing project learnings, processes, and tools. Outputs are made available via our Portfolio page andknowledge management partners.Nature for Water was established in 1952 in Arlington, Virginia. | Grant / Jan 01, 2022 | |
WISH Foundation
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WISH (Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare) is the flagship program of Lords Education and Health Society (LEHS), an Indian non-profit organization with a mission to scale innovations for creating an equitable healthcare system and make quality primary healthcare available and accessible to the underserved populations.Wadhwani Institutefor Sustainable Healthcare (WISH), registered as Lords Education and Health Society, is a non-profit organization that works to improve access to quality and affordable primary healthcare.WISH was established in 2014 in New Delhi, India. | Grant / Nov 01, 2021 | |
AMP Health
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AMP Health aims to provide our partner teams with a broad set of techniques and tools that they can adapt to their own context to improve leadership and management.AMP Health builds custom learning journeys for the teams that we work with structured around a set of core leadership and management competencies.AMP Health was established in 2015in Johannesburg, South Africa. | Grant / Oct 26, 2021 | |
The Antara Foundation
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The Antara Foundation partners with government to improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes by increasing collaboration among existing community health worker cadres.The Antara Foundation’s mission is to help create a public health system that consistently delivers products and solutions with scale, appropriate speed, and quality, backed bysupportive policy and funding. The Antara Foundation was established in 2013 in New Delhi, India by Ashok Alexander. | Grant / Oct 01, 2021 | |
Pristine Seas
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Pristine Seas works with local communities, governments and partners to help the ocean recover and restore biodiversity, protect carbon stocks and improve livelihoods.Pristine Seas publishes data, insights, and findings in renowned scientific journals in order to share our research findings and support other preservation projects.Pristine Seaswas established in 2008. | Grant / Jul 01, 2021 | |
Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
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By advocating for the conservancy model across Kenya, KWCA tackles three interlinked challenges: biodiversity loss, lack of livelihoods and Climate Change. KWCA places communities at the center of wildlife conservation. KWCA was established in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. | Grant / Jul 01, 2021 | |
The/Nudge Foundation
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The/Nudge Foundation exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably and scalably. The/Nudge was founded in July 2015 by Atul Satija, after his last stint as Chief Business Officer of InMobi. --- We are a collective of some of India’s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across industry, academia, government and development sectors, and our workis organised across 3 impact streams. 1. Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE) CSDE exists to enable underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives. Our goal is to impact 1M+ youth annually through direct, leveraged as well as indirect channels. 2. N/Core N/Core exists to nudge and nurture talent to solve for India's biggest problems. 3. up (ultra-poor) up exists to nudge families out of extreme poverty. We are implementing an integrated micro-entrepreneurship program to pull ultra-poor households (in Jharkhand), out of extreme poverty, through a globally acclaimed and well-researched "graduation model". Our goal is to directly work with and pull 100k families (500k people) out of extreme poverty, over the next 10 years. --- Over the last 4 years, we have impacted the lives of 6M+ people through our direct and indirect work across skilling, education, healthcare etc. We are a passionate team of 175+ #nudgesters, with a dream to see a poverty-free India within our generation. | Grant / Jul 01, 2021 | |
Blue Ventures
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Blue Ventures is a science-led social enterprise that is focused on coastal communities. The organization works in partnership with coastal communities in places where the ocean is vital to the culture and economy, and promotes transformative and integrated approaches to marine conservation and coastal poverty alleviation. Its areas of focusinclude community conservation, health, education, research, ecotourism, and learning and advocacy programs. Blue ventures was founded by Dr. Alasdair Harris, Tom Savage, Dr. Robert Conway, and Matthew Linnecar in 2003 and is based in London, England. | Grant / Jul 01, 2020 | |
Foundation for Ecological Security
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FES works to ecologically restore and conserve land and water resources in India's environmentally fragile, degraded, and marginalized regions.FES presently works with 36,400+ village institutions in 100 districts across 12 states, and assists the village communities in protecting 11.38 million acres of common lands including revenuewastelands, degraded forest lands and Panchayat grazing lands, positively impacting 22 million rural people across India.FES was established in 2001 in Anand Gujarat, India. | $130.9K / Grant / Apr 03, 2020 | |
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What does LGT Venture Philanthropy invest in?
LGT Venture Philanthropy invests primarily in Charity, Non Profit and Environmental Consulting startups, most often at Grant and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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