Our Impact

Impact Summary

Over the past 10+ years, SVX has worked to drive impact by engaging with various investors, enterprises, and funds.

ENTERPRISES, ORGANIZATIONS AND FUNDS
  • 500+ enterprises, organizations and funds
  • Organized over 20 cohort-based venture and organization accelerator programs
  • Supported the design and launch of funds and intermediaries including Ecotierra, Amplify Capital (formerly MaRS Catalyst Fund), VERGE Capital, and London’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC)
  • Designed innovative impact capital products including the Windmill Microlending Bond, YMCA Community Bond, and House of Friendship Community Bond
ENTERPRISES, ORGANIZATIONS AND FUNDS
  • 500+ enterprises, organizations and funds
  • Organized over 20 cohort-based venture and organization accelerator programs
  • Supported the design and launch of funds and intermediaries including Ecotierra, Amplify Capital (formerly MaRS Catalyst Fund), VERGE Capital, and London’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC)
  • Designed innovative impact capital products including the Windmill Microlending Bond, YMCA Community Bond, and House of Friendship Community Bond
INVESTORS
  • 1,200 investors engaged in our network
CAPITAL
  • Clients have mobilized $350 million in capital
SYSTEMS CHANGE
  • Established first national partnership with B Lab to establish a presence in Canada in 2012
  • Helped to establish School for Social Entrepreneurs-Ontario in 2012
  • Co-designed Canada’s Social Finance Forum from 2011-2017
  • Informed the development of Ontario’s Social Enterprise Strategy between 2012-2018
  • Worked with local leaders and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to help with the establishment of a National Advisory Board for Impact Investing in Colombia in 2020

Affordable Housing & Community Real Estate

Place-based Impact Investing

Indigenous Reconciliation & Prosperity

Climate Action

Sustainable Food Systems

Gender Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Esplanade

Montréal / Sherbrooke

SVX is a longstanding partner of Esplanade, an accelerator for entrepreneurs of social and environmental impact in Quebec. We worked collaboratively on the establishment of an accelerator program (Impact8) and the start-up of SVX operations in Quebec.

First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI)

Tyendinaga

SVX advised the First Nations Technical Institute on their development of a new undergraduate program in Indigenous Sustainable Food Systems through understanding the current landscape of incubators, accelerators, and other entrepreneurship training programs. Learn More

Akwesasne Nation Economic Development Corporation Community Wealth

Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne 

SVX supported the Akwesasne Nation Economic Development Corporation and their goals of building sovereign Indigenous community wealth through alternative models and pathways of accessing capital for their community and its entrepreneurs and businesses. We conducted market research and ecosystem interviews, presented case studies, and facilitated stakeholder education. Learn More

WOSEN

Eastern Ontario

SVX delivers programming for women and non binary social entrepreneurs across Eastern Ontario as part of the Women of Ontario Social Enterprise Network (WOSEN). We have also delivered the Build Back Better and Rural Innovation Initiative programs to ventures and non-profits in the region. Learn more

Entreprenorth Fund

Whitehorse, Yukon

Research and engagement initiative to support the discovery and design for a regional fund in Northern Canada focused on community-based entrepreneurs in collaboration with Entreprenorth and MakeWay. Learn More

Amplify Capital

Toronto, Ontario

The SVX team developed the initial fund model and acquired the initial operating funding and investment capital to start-up the MaRS Catalyst Fund, with the support of entities including Virgin Unite and the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation. Now known as Amplify Capital, this national impact investing fund is growing from its $5 million pilot fund to a larger scaled Fund 2. Learn More

House of Friendship Bond

Kitchener, Ontario

House of Friendship is a Kitchener-Waterloo-based organization that provides addiction treatment, housing and food to adults, children and families struggling with poverty. The organization serves over 42,000 people annually. ​SVX designed a community bond to support the renovation of its opioid addictions facility. The bond was listed on SVX, with active investor relations support throughout its campaign. The offering closed in under eight (8) weeks and oversubscribed. Learn More

YWCA Elm Centre

Toronto, Ontario

SVX helped to design and facilitate investment for a $1 million bond offering for the Elm Centre project in downtown Toronto. Elm Centre offers 300 affordable apartments for low-income women and their families, women living with mental health and addiction issues and families of Aboriginal ancestry. Learn More

Rhizome Strategies

Montréal / Sherbrooke

SVX partners with Rhizome Strategies in Montreal as a strategic advisor for our venture education and advisory projects. Rhizome is a management consulting firm dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship and the impact economy.

City of London - Housing Development Corporation

London, Ontario

SVX was part of the external project team contracted by the City of London that completed the research and design work to establish the organization in 2015.​ London’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC) centralizes the knowledge, skills, expertise, and tools required to support sustainable housing development, inclusive of affordable housing, throughout London and Middlesex. HDC engages in a full range of services including development, new financial instruments, land acquisition and sale, and affordable housing consultation with all partners and sectors.​ Learn More

Pillar Nonprofit Network

London / Southwestern Ontario

SVX is a co-designer, co-manager and co-owner of the VERGE Breakthrough Fund in collaboration with Pillar Nonprofit Network. The Breakthrough Fund provides lending capital to impact enterprises, projects, and organizations in Southwestern Ontario.

Upper Canada Equity Fund

Prince Edward County

SVX is a longstanding partner of the Upper Canada Equity Fund, including work on venture bootcamps, investor education, Impact8, the Build Back Better Challenge, and the development of a place-based fund focused on food systems in Eastern Ontario

SVX Head Office

Toronto, Ontario

SVX US

United States

SVX Canada has worked with Cutting Edge Capital (based in Oakland, CA) since 2015 to design, develop and deploy an SVX US.

SVX Mexico

Mexico

Since 2014, SVX Canada has been fortunate to collaborate with the SVX Mexico team. SVX MX catalyzes impact investments by offering professional training and consulting services specialized in the co-creation, implementation, and evaluation of the social and environmental impact of their clients aligned with their financial values and goals. SVX MX works throughout Latin America.

SVX Colombia

Colombia

On January 31, 2023, SVX Colombia was launched to help mobilize millions in capital for women-led or women-serving enterprises in vulnerable communities, climate action and biodiversity, and rural development in Colombia.

SVX Colombia Fund Accelerator

Colombia

Launched in 2023, the SVX Colombia Fund Accelerator is a capacity-building program providing technical knowledge, advice, and peer support, for innovative funds and funds developing emergent strategies in Colombia focused on rural regions, women, and climate action. Learn More

Impact Investing Ecosystem Project

Peru

After a similar engagement in Colombia and supported by the Government of Canada, four partner organizations including Deetken Impact, SVX Canada, SVX Mexico, and Impacto have combined forces to work on an ecosystem development project in Peru, including sector mapping, developing education strategies, and creating an action plan for a proposed National Advisory Board (NAB) on impact investing. Learn More

Impact Investing Ecosystem Project

Colombia

SVX has been engaged in the Colombian impact investing ecosystem for over five (5) years. Between 2017 to 2020, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada (GAC), SVX Canada and SVX MX engaged in an in-depth research and community development effort to understand and inform the development of the impact investing ecosystem in Colombia.

Our Theory of Change

Big Problem

We are faced with pressing problems at local and global levels including poverty, inequality, climate change and poor health.

Current public policy, philanthropy & community action are necessary but insufficient conditions for change. Capital and business must be re-directed towards tackling our most pressing problems.

Market Problem

Money can’t find meaning.

Enterprises are building business models to fill the gap and tackle our most pressing problems but lack access to capital and investment readiness.

Investors are seeking to mobilize capital for public good but they lack access to investments and investor readiness.

Strategies and Interventions

Simplify the process of connecting money with meaning by building capacity and connections amongst impact enterprises and investors.

Outputs

New impact capital mobilized.

New impact enterprises and investors are equipped to make and support investments through SVX.

Outcomes

Single access point for a community of high quality impact enterprises & investors to capital and deals that are achieving demonstrable social and environmental impact.

Impact

There is the combined knowledge, capacity, will, and action among stakeholders to redirect capital towards sustained economic growth alongside poverty reduction, environmental sustainability, increased opportunity, and improved health and wellness.