Our Impact

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.​

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.

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.

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

Toronto, Ontario

United States

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

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.

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.

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.