Active Impact Investments

🔍 Founders often juggle many tasks, making it tough to find those crucial hires. That's one area we step in! With 40+ years of executive HR and recruitment experience, we help our portfolio companies secure top talent for key roles. 💼 Here are a few open opportunities in our portfolio: ⚡ VP of Finance & Operations @ Optiwatt (Full-time, Various US locations/Remote) With a mission to reverse global warming through the advancement of electrification, this role will be pivotal in shaping the financial future of the company. https://lnkd.in/ggP4bzWb 💧 Director/VP Customer Success @ Lumo (Full-time, Santa Rosa) Building the future of agricultural irrigation technology, Lumo offers the world’s first smart irrigation valve and in less than two years, has earned the trust of 5 of the top 10 largest wine growers in the US.  https://lnkd.in/gPVrfAcn 👩🏻🔧 Electrician @ Jetson (Full-time, Vancouver) Home heating accounts for ~10% of global GHG emissions and up to 40% of a home’s energy use. Jetson is looking for extremely motivated and passionate electricians for their first heat pump install crew. https://lnkd.in/gBATnxPg 👨🏾🔧 HVAC Tech @ Jetson (Full-time, Vancouver) As part of the first heat pump install crew, Jetson is also looking for motivated HVAC techs who want to be part of disrupting the residential HVAC industry. https://lnkd.in/gnfNZAeZ Not seeing the right fit? Learn more about our portfolio companies: https://lnkd.in/gvaYsKme And submit a general application to get in touch with Cayley Dow, CPHR our Talent Network & HR Manager: https://lnkd.in/geQwyZ8V 

Spotted: Sam Hasty and Sophie Seston for their on-camera debut! 🎥 ⭐ We were proud and honoured to share our impact thesis and story last week with a docuseries crew. We’ll share the final edit when it’s live, so stay tuned!

🌍Three main barriers prevent people from choosing consumer packaged goods that are better for them and the planet… 💲 Price 📚 Education 🛒 Convenience Annalea Krebs 🌎 founded Social Nature to increase the adoption of sustainable consumer packaged goods. They do this by curating a community of conscious consumers and connecting brands directly to those target consumers. 📈 ✨ Since our initial investment, Social Nature has transformed dozens of businesses and they’ve grown significantly as a result. They’ve scaled revenue by almost 10X and grew their community to 1M shoppers. Because of this exciting progress, last month we purchased more shares of the business in a secondary transaction to get more access to this growth. We are excited to watch the Social Nature team continue to scale their business and impact! 👏 👍 Join their community and #maketheswitch to better-for-you products at: https://lnkd.in/gaFhxyFN – #sustainableshopping #ecommerce

🌟 Three exits in one week! 🌱📈 We’re thrilled to highlight three successful exits that we announced last month. 👏 It’s been a pleasure supporting each of these companies as part of our portfolio: 🌎 Keela, our first investment out of Fund I, was acquired by Aplos .  Since our initial investment in 2018, Keela grew to serve thousands of non-profits around the world scale their missions effectively. 🌎 Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva), our second exit from Fund II, was acquired by Workiva for $100M USD. Sustain.Life helped companies transition to a carbon free future, growing recurring revenue by 10X and reaching hundreds of customers since April 2022. 🌎 The third exit is confidential. Although we can’t disclose details of the transaction, we are excited that this company found a strategic partner to allow them to scale up after a long, shrewd battle with market dynamics. In a time when many seek liquidity, we’re proud to celebrate our founders’ achievements and impacts. And we think our biggest potential winners are still in the portfolio. 💪🚀

Are you a bowler? 🎳 If so, you know that 3 strikes is called a turkey. 🏆 Last month, we scored a tofurkey (lower carbon turkey?) with 3 exits in one week! We’ll share more on this next week, but congrats to Keela, Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva), and Pantree on their successful journeys. Special thanks to our founders and teams for their incredible work. 🌍 💼 🛍️ We also completed a follow-on investment in Social Nature. They've scaled revenue 10X and have 1M+ shoppers. Exciting progress! 🌱 Here’s some June updates from our other portfolio companies: 🌬️Jetson started with their first paid customers in Vancouver, BC and Denver, CO. 🔁 Dispatch Goods landed HelloFresh, The Rounds and Farm to People as new customers and ran a successful re-commerce pilot. ☀️ King Energy signed their 150th commercial solar program, now serving 20M+ sq ft of commercial space. 🚍 Hyfluence was contracted to supply infrastructure to Lewis County Transit for hydrogen buses. ⚡ Relyion Energy Inc added an opportunity to their sales pipeline that could expand to 1000+ sites. 🔌 SWTCH received a larger order for chargers from Central Park, a large real estate project in Laval, QC. 📩 For more updates, subscribe to our monthly newsletter and get full access to company updates here: https://lnkd.in/gFAwthzj  — #HeatPumps #ReturnLogistics #Ecommerce #Recommerce #SolarEnergy #Renewables #EVs #Batteries #Fashion #ActiveImpact #ClimateTech #ClimateTechCanada

🚗🔋 Electric vehicles are crucial to the decarbonization of transportation. But most EV batteries are retired with 70-80% of their life left. What happens next? With 20+ years of experience, Dr. Surinder Singh founded Relyion Energy Inc to create a second life for lithium-ion batteries and exponentially extend their lifespans. 📈 Relyion Energy Inc built physics-based machine learning and AI that allows for the utilization of each battery component individually. The renewed batteries are bundled into a stable, affordable, on-demand energy storage solution. Dr. Surinder Singh and his team at Relyion Energy Inc published the impact of their work in a peer-reviewed journal with Stanford, showing: 🔋Battery life is extended by 20+ years 💰30-50% cheaper than new batteries 🌍60% less carbon per MWh 🔌Their solution can be used as backup power (replacing diesel generators!) or to increase storage capacity, avoid demand peaks, and reduce the strain on the grid. To hear more about their work, check out our Founder Spotlight chat with Mike Winterfield and Dr. Surinder Singh: https://lnkd.in/gf8jRZ3N – #FounderSpotlight #CleanTech #ActiveImpact #BatteryRecycling #EVs #ElectricVehicles

🌐✨ We’re thrilled to share the launch of our brand-new website! 🚀 Learn more about our mission to drive positive change in the world of #CleanTech, #Sustainability and #ImpactInvesting. 🌱💡 What you’ll find: 🎯 Our investment thesis and impact goals 📖 Inspiring stories and founder spotlights from our portfolio companies ✅ Our Climate Impact Reports 🌍 Our monthly insights library 🔗 Check it out! https://lnkd.in/dHqBNyb – #ActiveImpact #ClimateTech #ClimateTechCanada #VC

Alterna Savings has been using's SAMETRICA's platform to track and manage the impact and ESG progress of its microfinance program. We're excited to share more information on Alterna's journey from a stated intention to measure impact to being able to optimize and manage its impact in a couple of short months! Some key findings from Alterna's use of the platform so far are: - Alterna's microfinance program achieved an impact per dollar spent of $4.37, with the largest drivers of value being the total GDP created by businesses, and the additional value of capital made available to marginalized founders. - Alterna microfinance provides loans that are 1.5x larger than their Canadian microfinance peers at a lower cost of capital. - More than 50% of loans are provided to women, who are historically less likely to be approved for financing. - More than 85% of loans are provided to black or persons of colour, who are historically less likely to be approved for financing. - Alterna’s microfinance program leads its global and Canadian peers in terms of availability of impact and ESG data. Download the case study and white paper here: https://lnkd.in/g-CCA22F

“The exploding popularity of AI poses a real threat to our energy systems because of how quickly AI’s thirst for energy could spike demand.” 💡 Check out Sophie Seston's piece on how AI is impacting energy systems now, forecasts for the future, and the solutions we need to address this. – #ActiveImpact #AI #Energy #Climate #ClimateTech #ClimateTechCanada

We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva) by Workiva! Annalee Bloomfield and the team at Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva) sought out to build a net zero planning platform that brings real, practical value to customers at a pivotal time in our fight to address climate change. Over the last few years, they’ve helped hundreds of customers navigate an increasingly complex landscape to lower their emissions. This acquisition is another example that climate tech is creating strong distributions to LPs, even in complex macroeconomic environments and that investing in strong, female-led teams creates exceptional outcomes. We’re excited to see what the future holds and we’re rooting for continued impact from the Workiva Carbon team in the years to come. 💥 https://lnkd.in/gut7Ttdf