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Ignite500 Impact Fund
For more than a decade Ignite500 has been turning possibilities into reality by investing in companies with disruptive technologies that tackle some of the most fundamental social and environmental issues faced by today’s world.
We invest directly and co-invest with partners in North America and beyond, across a wide range of sectors with a primary focus on high-growth technology, real estate, and healthcare, and at all stages, from seed-level startups to Series A and beyond, including private investments in public equity (PIPEs).
Each opportunity is unique, with specific terms and conditions that offer the best path to future success. We pride ourselves on offering deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders advance on their journey.
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About Us
Multi-Strategy
Building a successful private investment portfolio requires a thorough understanding of all asset classes, investing strategies, and geographic regions. Ignite500's investment team have a broad evaluation perspective of opportunities in several industries, which puts Ignite500 in a position to capture best values and risk-adjusted returns across multiple asset classes.
Partnerships
Since its inception, Ignite500 has adopted a partnership strategy to build long-term relationships and alignments with Institutional Partners, SFO’s and HNW Investors to focuses on mutual long-term goals and constraints
Private Equity
With a focus on direct middle-market investments, co-investments, and club deals, our private equity approach is designed to make use of Ignite500's extensive institutional network and other cooperative alliances. We make investments across a variety of sectors and look for high-value assets that positively impact society with limited downside and firm alignment. Our team has a wealth of diverse experience, which offers our portfolio companies an edge in expanding their operations. Ignite500 can set itself apart from other potential capital partners and contribute to long-term success with the steady, long-term strategy we pursue with our partners.
Venture Capital
Our venture capital strategy involves making direct investments in companies and top venture capital funds which are aligned with our vision and produce strong risk-adjusted returns. In order to capitalize on Ignite500's expertise and networks, we prefer to focus on technology, real estate, and healthcare sectors.
Venture Capital as a Service (VCaaS)
Corporate Venture Capital and Private Venture Capital via Family Offices are on the rise. For new funds, we assist with launching their funds by developing a fund thesis, fund strategy, fund structure, fund pitch deck, fund marketing strategy, deal flow and portfolio management. For established funds we review governance structure, use of funds, risk assessment, and benchmark against best business practices.
Business Consulting
We collaborate with Portfolio Companies, Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms to support a range of beneficial outcomes, including discovering potential ``deal-breakers`` or ``deal-makers`` that could otherwise go overlooked. From the early stages of buy-side due diligence to post-acquisition integration and sell-side market studies, we work with investors and portfolio companies. Due diligence on acquisitions, market potential analysis, planning and capital acquisition strategy are some of the services we offer.
Firm Overview
A Long-Term Commitment To Fundamental Investing
Ignite500 is committed to delivering long-term superior investment results through authentic active management, delivering performance distinct from market benchmarks. Ignite500 integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations factors when selecting investments and building portfolios. Our experience demonstrates that an active, long-term commitment to ESG integration is good business and can offer superior return on investments and make an impact.
This is not our first rodeo.
We invest in people
before ideas.
We know the types of people we are looking for. We invest in experts — authentic founders who are the best at what they do. Having a big idea matters, but being the person who can make it a reality matters even more.
The journey is just as important as the destination.
Yes, the destination is critical: we are in the business of helping build world-changing companies that create tremendous value. That said, we recognize that it will not always be smooth sailing. We want to be there for every part of the ride. We strive to be the investor you want to call, not the one you have to.
+ Healthcare
25%
+ Real Estate
15%
+ Technology / Enterprise SaaS / Artificial Intelligence
55%
+ Emerging Technologies / Digital Assets
5%
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Our Investment Process
To define the investment totality, Ignite500’s investment process initially examines how the world is changing and where it is headed. To refine the investment opportunity, Ignite500’s deep analysis evaluates potential investments early and capitalize on the opportunities.
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Our Due Diligence Process
Market Potential
Size of opportunity and alignment with our strategy/portfolio.
Execution Strategy
Quality of thought with regard to execution, contingency planning, and agility.
Technology
Ensure that technology is both feasible, cost-effective, deployable at scale and integrated with existing markets.
Team
Interview the team, evaluate the experience and work in style, perform background research.
Impact
Evaluate and validate economic, social and environmental impact of the company and the product.
Liquidity and Exit
Clear understanding of the liquidity profile and how profits will be generated. Evaluate exit potential.
Competitors
Ensure that opportunities are both best-in-breed and have a defensible position relative to peers. Special consideration given to disruptive market creators.
Outreach to Adopters
Test the market to objectively establish the proposed solution's value proposition.
Financials/Risk
Proper management and control over investments; strategies to optimize resources and ensure that burn rate is appropriate, to achieve a greed goals within acceptable timeframes.
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Our Values
We partner and invest in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas… and make history.
We want to be the first call for founders who want to make history and to partner with them as company builders in pursuit of that goal.
One Team, One Dream
We operate in a culture of transparency, teamwork, and trust to fulfill our company vision of partnering with companies that make history. We know how each individual role plays a part in the success of Ignite500 and everyone’s work matters.
Pride in Excellence
We take ownership and pride in our work. We set a high bar and sweat the details, holding ourselves accountable to the stretch goals, OKRs, and objectives we have set, always striving to get better.
Operating in Real Time
We support all the companies in which we invest and we act with the same sense of urgency as our founders with no trade-off between speed and quality.
Positive Intent
We assume that everyone at Ignite 500 is living our company values to the best of their ability. We trust that each person operates with good intentions and acts with integrity and respect.
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