Transform investment potential into lasting impact
SVX designs and manages impact investment funds and products that generate positive social, environmental, and community benefits alongside a financial return. We help social purpose organizations raise investment capital by bringing new products to market, providing back-end fund management services, and operating Canada’s largest database of private impact investment offerings.
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What do you need help with?
Learn how to start a fund
Training, tools and peer support.
Launch my fund
Design, launch and manage your impact fund.
Get in front of investors
List your offering on the Impact Index. It’s free.
Manage fund operations
Back-office support for emerging managers.
Support at every stage of your fund
Launching an impact fund takes more than a strong thesis. It takes the right structure, the right infrastructure, and the right support behind it. SVX works with fund managers and product issuers at every stage, from initial design through to ongoing administration, so you can focus on deploying capital and delivering impact.
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Fund Design
Get expert support designing the structure, strategy, and terms of your impact fund from investment thesis to fund model to investor terms. We help you build a fund that attracts the right investors and is set up for long-term success.
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Fund Launch
Take your fund to market with confidence. We support offering development, documentation, and regulatory requirements, and help connect you with investors whose mandates align with your strategy.
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Fund Management
Draw on SVX’s experience managing place-based impact funds. We bring practical, hands-on fund management experience to support your investment strategy, pipeline, and portfolio decisions.
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Fund Administration
Keep your fund running smoothly with back-end administrative support – including investor reporting and impact measurement and reporting – so your team can stay focused on capital deployment and impact.
Build the skills before you build a fund
Launching a fund or investment product takes more than a good idea. Our accelerator and learning programs give you the training, tools, and peer support to get there – alongside other organizations building impact offerings across Canada.
Towards Affordable Housing Accelerator
The Towards: Affordable Housing Finance Accelerator helps community finance intermediaries build the skills to raise and deploy capital for affordable housing.
Towards Community Finance Accelerator
Get connected to fund managers seeking to drive positive social and environmental impact in their communities through lending and investing. By participating in Towards: Community Finance Development Accelerator, gain technical knowledge, advice, visibility to investors, and peer support.
Funds we manage
Place-based and sector-focused funds that put capital where it’s needed most.
Apply to VERGE Capital
Learn more about our community finance fund that offers affordable loans to social purpose organizations in Southwestern Ontario.
Apply to Bloom Local Food Fund
Learn more about our regenerative food and agriculture fund that offers debt and equity investments to social purpose organizations in Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec.
Apply to First Bite Fund
Learn more about about the social impact fund that supports women and intersectional founders in scaling their food processing businesses and building strong, Canadian-owned companies.
Get your fund in front of investors
List your impact investment offering 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.
Coming Soon
Fund Operations Support Coming Soon
Leverage SVX’s back-office fund management infrastructure, so you can focus on finding the best opportunities for your fund and supporting your investees. We support investor relations and investee pipeline management and provide outsourced due diligence, fractional CFO, and regulatory filing services.
Our Clients (to be updated)
Latest Insights (to be updated)
Market research and reports on Canadian impact investing.
*related market reports
Impact investing did not take a summer holiday. Between June 13 and September 8, 2026, the period covered by this digest, several structures that had been years in the making reached meaningful milestones.
Report: Canadian Community Finance Market Represents...
SVX released a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind report on the state of community finance in Canada. The report identifies 768 institutions representing $771 billion in total assets, including $7.3 billion in assets under management.
*whitepapers
Since March 2026, the Canadian impact investing market has continued to deepen across several fronts: stronger market data and market infrastructure, and new movement in social finance intermediation.
Ready to launch your fund?
Tell us where you are and we’ll point you to the right support.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I raise capital from impact investors?
Raising impact capital typically starts with investment readiness: understanding what investors will look for, clarifying your impact thesis, and choosing the right structure for your raise (whether that’s a community bond, a fund, equity, or debt). From there, it’s about getting your offering documents in order and connecting with investors whose mandate aligns with your mission.
SVX supports you at every stage. We provide investment readiness assessments, and work one-on-one to develop your offering from feasibility through to close to facilitate the transaction. You can also get listed on the SVX Impact Index for free, putting your offering in front of hundreds of Canadian impact investors actively seeking opportunities.
How is investment capital different from grants?
Grants are non-repayable funding, usually awarded for a specific project or period, and often come with reporting requirements but no expectation of financial return. Investment capital is different: investors expect their money back, typically with a return, whether through interest, dividends, or an eventual exit. That comes with more obligation, but also more flexibility, larger amounts, and the ability to build a longer-term relationship with funders invested in your growth.
For many social purpose organizations, the two work together. SVX helps you understand which forms of capital fit your model, and how to structure an offering that’s both investable and true to your mission.
What do I need to launch and manage a fund or investment product?
Launching a fund requires a clear investment thesis, a defined structure and terms, a credible team and track record, regulatory compliance, and a plan for sourcing both capital and deals. Managing one adds ongoing needs: investor reporting, capital deployment, impact measurement, and back-office administration.
SVX provides fund design services to help you structure your fund, back-end fund management services to handle operations, and accelerator programs like WIN-VC, Towards, and Catalyst to build your capacity alongside a cohort of peers. Whether you’re launching your first product or scaling an existing one, we can meet you where you are.