# PG Impact Investments

> PG Impact Investments is a VC fund backing Agriculture and Renewable Energy. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Little Switzerland, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Fund size: $246M
- Last fund: Feb 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pg-impact-investments-ag/
- Website: http://pg-impact.com/

PG Impact Investments is a VC fund in Little Switzerland focused on Agriculture and Renewable Energy. They are a global impact investment firm backed by Partners Group, one of the world's leading private market investment managers.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 3 | 30% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 30% |
| Farming | 2 | 20% |
| Logistics | 2 | 20% |
| SMS | 1 | 10% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| India | 2 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 10% |
| Uganda | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Melissa Cheong | Investment Committee Member | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-cheong |
| Urs Daniel Baumann | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/urs-daniel-baumann |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oorja Development Solutions | Oorja Development Solutions aims to provide clean energy access to 450 million un/underelectrified people in rural Indian communities. It deploy smart micro-grids powered by biomass gasification and solar PV systems to generate, store and transmit reliable and affordable electricity to SMEs as anchor load and low-income households. It uses ascalable community-owned business model to leverage energy provision as a catalyst for socio-economic development to alleviate poverty, empower women and tackle climate change. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 | http://www.oorjasolutions.org |
| Koolboks | Koolboks manufactures solar-powered freezers and other refrigeration units. The products are designed to keep items cool and preserved without the need for a continuous power source. The company's product line includes freezers, chillers, ice makers, and specialized vaccine freezers. | $1.7M | Seed | Jan 28, 2022 | https://www.koolboks.com |
| 80 Acres Farms | 80 Acres delivers tasty and fresh produce all year round, locally grown, clean guaranteed, and with no dependency on weather or climate through indoor farming technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. | $160M | Series B | Aug 09, 2021 | https://www.80acresfarms.com |
| AIG Hospital | AIG Hospitals is a Gastroenterology hospital that believes and preaches that excellence is a way of life. It offers transplant surgeries including Liver, Kidney, Heart, Pancreas, and Islet Cell. It believes in creating a positive and nurturing environment that is conducive to healing. It was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hyderabad,India. | $42.3M | Private Equity | Dec 16, 2019 | https://aighospitals.com/ |
| AIG Hospital | AIG Hospitals is a Gastroenterology hospital that believes and preaches that excellence is a way of life. It offers transplant surgeries including Liver, Kidney, Heart, Pancreas, and Islet Cell. It believes in creating a positive and nurturing environment that is conducive to healing. It was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hyderabad,India. |  |  | Dec 11, 2019 | https://aighospitals.com/ |
| Tugende | Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety. | $5M | Debt Financing | Feb 04, 2019 | https://gotugende.com/ |
| Essmart | Essmart is an essential technology distributor with an embedded in-store presence that offers rural retail shops in southern India with access to technologies that improve their customers’ lives. It aggregates products such as solar lanterns, water filters, smokeless cook stoves, and more; distributes tem to local retail shops; and facilitatesmanufacturers’ warranties.Essmart was co-founded by | $1.2M |  | Sep 18, 2018 | http://www.essmart-global.com/ |
| Cell-Ed | Cell-Ed offers employers and education providers a complete mobile messaging solution to reach, teach, coach, and upskill today's workforce. Cell-Ed was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 09, 2018 | https://www.cell-ed.com/ |
| Sun King | Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia. | $60M | Series C | Dec 06, 2017 | http://www.greenlightplanet.com |

9 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acumen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elea-foundation-for-ethics-in-globalization) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1to4 Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1to4-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Aruwa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruwa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bamboo Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bamboo-capital-partners-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does PG Impact Investments invest in?

PG Impact Investments invests primarily in Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is PG Impact Investments's check size?

PG Impact Investments typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$1.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds PG Impact Investments participates in.

### How do I contact PG Impact Investments?

Public channels for PG Impact Investments include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at PG Impact Investments?

The team at PG Impact Investments includes Melissa Cheong (Investment Committee Member) and Urs Daniel Baumann (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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