Build your capacity, networks, and confidence
SVX empowers investors and asset owners, fund managers and product issuers, and entrepreneurs and social purpose organizations to connect, learn, and grow in impact investing – through peer networks, online courses, cohort-based programs, and bespoke learning designed around your needs. Connect with peers and industry experts who can help you take your next step.
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I'm an accredited investor or asset owner
Discover how to align your capital with impact. Learn the fundamentals of impact investing in Canada, explore opportunities across asset classes and sectors, and connect with a growing community of investors and asset owners putting purpose alongside returns.
I'm an impact fund, product manager, or intermediary
Access the tools, networks, and expertise to raise capital for your investment product. Connect with other fund managers and investors, sharpen your pitch through our programs, and navigate the landscape with peers who’ve done it before.
I'm an entrepreneur, founder, or social purpose leader
Build the skills, networks, and confidence to grow your social purpose organization – from understanding impact investing to accessing dedicated programs built for entrepreneurs like you. Ready to fund your next stage of growth?
Learn about impact investing in Canada
Impact investing is growing fast, and so too is the need for investors who understand how to do it well. Get connected with Impact United Academy, a peer community of impact investors and asset owners, and the SVX Impact Index, giving you the knowledge and data to invest with confidence.
Impact investing foundations
Get connected to impact investors through Impact United Academy: a community of Canadian investors and asset owners.
- Explore practitioner-led courses, from impact investing fundamentals to executive-level peer exchanges
- Webinars and in-person convenings led by experienced sector leaders
- Invite-only peer circles bringing together values-aligned investors for shared learning and collaborative action
Find impactful investments
Quickly find investment funds and products that align with your values through the SVX Impact Index – Canada’s most comprehensive directory of impact investment offerings.
- Curated Collections and Impact Index+ selections
- A Knowledge Centre of research, tools, and market intelligence
- Quarterly subscriber calls to connect with a community advancing impact investing across Canada
Looking to raise investment capital?
Whether you’re raising capital for the first time, launching an impact fund, or scaling an existing venture, SVX has the services, programs, and networks to help you succeed. Our team works one-on-one with issuers to build investment readiness and bring impact offerings to market – and our accelerators and learning programs help you build the skills and connections to raise capital with confidence.
Capital Raise Services
Looking to raise capital through an impact offering? Structure and launch your impact investment offering. connecting you with a network of values-aligned investors.
Fund Design Services
Get expert support designing the structure, strategy, and terms of your impact fund – from investment thesis to fund model to investor terms – built to attract the right investors and set your fund up for long-term success.
Start a Fund
Thinking about launching or managing an impact fund? Get the tools, guidance, and networks needed to structure, launch, and grow a successful fund.
Accelerator Programs
Apply for our learning programs designed to build the skills and networks entrepreneurs and fund managers need to raise capital and scale their impact.
Get discovered by impact investors
List your impact investment offering for free on the SVX Impact Index – the largest and most comprehensive directory of impact investment offerings. Gain credibility, increase your exposure, and access a targeted community. All for free.
Qualifying offerings can also be featured in Impact Index+ and Collections: curated groups organized by impact theme that showcase vetted, high-quality impact products by theme, strategy, or structure.
Gain Credibility
Inclusion in Impact Index+ signals strong impact, governance, and financial practices.
Increase Visibility
Reach hundreds of investors and advisors exploring opportunities.
Get Featured in Collections
Be highlighted within curated thematic Collections.
A Trusted Market Platform
Join Canada’s most comprehensive impact investment directory.
No Cost to Submit
There is no fee to list products on the platform.
Get featured in Impact Index+ & Collections
SVX’s flagship collection. A qualified set of offerings that meet strict impact, financial, and governance standards. View selection criteria.
Offerings that integrate a gender lens into strategy, decision-making, or portfolio outcomes. View selection criteria.
Professionally structured funds that meet governance and transparency standards. View selection criteria.
Products that support the transition to sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems. View selection criteria.
Offerings that support local economic development and access to capital in underserved regions. View selection criteria.
Investment products that finance the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of natural ecosystems. View selection criteria.
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Get connected to other fund managers
Peer networks and programs for community finance organizations and intermediaries.
Catalyst Community Finance
Catalyst Community Finance is a network of place-based impact funds, community loan funds, investment co-operatives, community land trusts, local credit unions, and other community finance organizations that exists to advance the community finance sector in Canada. The collective aims to enhance the ecosystem to support the start-up and scale up of place-based community finance organizations in urban, rural, and Northern communities across Canada. Join to gain access to peers, programming, tools, and resources.
Towards Affordable Housing Accelerator
Get connected to community finance intermediaries who are seeking to strengthen their ability to raise and deploy capital for community and affordable housing by participating in Towards: Affordable Housing Finance Accelerator.
Programs designed around your needs
Looking to build the impact investing ecosystem? SVX designs custom education and capacity-building programs for governments, funders, networks, and partners – tailored to the specific needs of your organization, sector, or region. From municipal climate initiatives to national funder collaboratives, we’ve worked with ecosystem leaders across Canada to build programs that deliver practical skills, fresh perspectives, and lasting capacity.
Have a custom program in mind?
Got questions on how we can build you a custom program? Get in touch.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get started with impact investing?
The best first step is building foundational knowledge: understanding what impact investing is, how it differs from other values-based approaches, and what kinds of opportunities exist across asset classes and sectors. From there, most investors benefit from connecting with peers and experts who can help translate that knowledge into action.
SVX offers free, self-paced courses like Gender Lens Investing 101, along with a full Knowledge Centre featuring market maps of impact investing products across Canada. You can connect with peers and industry experts through Impact United Academy, and explore live opportunities on the SVX Impact Index – the largest and most comprehensive directory of impact investment offerings available to Canadian accredited investors, asset owners, and portfolio managers.
What’s the difference between ESG, SRI, and impact investing?
All three approaches align investing with values, but they work differently. Environmental, social, governance (ESG) investing integrates environmental, social, and governance factors to manage risk and improve returns. Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) takes a more values-based approach, excluding companies or industries that conflict with an investor’s ethics. Impact investing goes further, requiring intentionality, measurability, and a specific pursuit of positive social or environmental outcomes alongside financial return.
Every offering on the SVX Impact Index is expected to meet this higher bar of intentionality and measurement to actively work to create positive change.
What kind of returns can I expect from impact investing?
Impact investments can absolutely deliver competitive returns — in fact, 66% of impact investment products are targeting or achieving market-rate or above-market returns today. Return expectations do shift with market conditions, just as they do across traditional investing, but the takeaway is clear: strong financial performance and real-world impact are not mutually exclusive.
The SVX Impact Index lets you explore offerings by sector, structure, and return expectations, so you can find products that align with both your financial goals and the impact you want to make.