Agents for Impact (AFI) is an impact investor based in Frankfurt, Germany. The goal of AFI is to create impact, which is fair, sustainable and responsible. The focus of the company lies on investment opportunities that meet specific impact criteria and make a positive contribution towards achieving the SDG. Along with impact investment, AFI conducts research for two of Invest in Vison’s funds in the microfinance sector.

Kiva is a U.S. nonprofit organization founded in 2005, and based in San Francisco, with offices in Bangkok, Nairobi, Portland and staff around the globe. Kiva attracts financing by crowdfunding loans and unlocks capital for underserved people, improving the quality and cost of financial services, and addressing the underlying barriers to financial access around the world. Through Kiva’s work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. IFC helps developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. In FY12, IFC’s investments reached an all-time high of more than $20 billion, leveraging the power of the private sector to create jobs, spark innovation, and tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges.

responsAbility Investments AG is a Swiss asset manager dedicated to development investments and offers professionally-managed investment solutions to private, institutional and public investors. Founded in 2003, responsAbility Investments AG supplies debt and equity financing predominantly to non-listed firms in emerging and developing economies.

Symbiotics is an investment company specialized in emerging, sustainable and inclusive finance which offers market research, investment advisory and asset management services.  Since 2004, Symbiotics has invested over USD 1.9 billion in more than 200 microfinance institutions in 50 emerging countries, working with more than 28 investment funds and many institutional investors.

The EMF Microfinance Fund is an impact investor founded in 2008 and based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Their goal is to promote financial inclusion to people in developing economies currently overlooked by the financial system. EMF aims to support promising, responsible, profitable and sustainable Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, financing Intermediaries that focus on achieving social impact.