Impact Investing - What it means to us

What Impact Investing means to the HSG Hub Office and to our Team

We define and understand Impact Investing as Investments towards innovative ideas that are based on unique business-models, proposed by outstanding entrepreneurs, providing an optional solution to current social and environmental problems, returning the principal invested into the project.

The Impact Investing Research Platform therefore supports entrepreneurs whose businesses and projects have a social or environmental impact and the invested funds do not have only a measureable financial return, but also meet the needs of society.

Although there has been an increasing supply of Impact Investing capital, there is still a substantial number of projects searching for funds.

On the other side, established financial service providers generally focus merely on the financial return. However, many potential Impact Investors are still reserved to invest, due to a lack of transparency and reliable information, while entrepreneurs require management and financial knowledge.

Based on the described initial situation, the Impact Investing Research Platform hosted by the HSG Hub Office in Sao Paulo provides a platform for Entrepreneurs and Investors to meet, to share information and to generate knew knowledge.

Ultimatively, the HSG Hub Office understands its engagement and the Impact Investing Research Platform as a measure to increase awareness in the financial industry and among entrepreneurs, that their collaboration will make the difference in order to develop promising entrepreneurial ideas.