Impact Shakers Vision
Our team has been committed to impact
ecosystem building since 2018.
We believe entrepreneurship holds the power to change the world.
Impact Shakers exists to unlock the true problem solving potential of humanity by using diverse & inclusive entrepreneurship to help us build systemic solutions to systemic problems.
Impact Shakers accelerates the transition to the Impact Economy through
Impact Capital as catalyst
through direct investments and by catalysing other impact investors and democratising access to impact investing
Impact Ecosystem Building
fostering deep collaboration towards a common goal.
These two halves influence and interact with each other form the basis of our work to evolve who gets to build business, for which purposes and how we build them.
Impact
Capital
Impact
Ecosystem
Systemic Investing
in an Ecosystem Approach
Impact Shakers Ventures goes beyond impact investing by:
Challenging financial power structures
by investing exclusively in diverse-led startups, addressing structural inequities in venture funding and ensuring entrepreneurship reflects broader societal diversity.
Selecting investments for systemic impact potential
by looking for businesses that are targeting root causes of social and environmental challenges with solutions that implement new economic thinking rather than just mitigating symptoms.
Actively shaping the impact ecosystem to champion desired futures and enable progress
by advocating for policy change, fostering collaboration among impact-driven startups, and embedding systemic thinking and action in startup support and impact assessment.
Developing and embodying inclusive and conscious leadership
by providing support for inner development and wellbeing and holding ourselves accountable for learning alongside startups and translating insights into action.
Our Impact Strategy
The capital we invest is one of the core elements in our work to support the transition to the impact economy. We believe that entrepreneurship holds the power to change the world and we invest in entrepreneurs whose bold ideas will accelerate our progress towards a more inclusive and sustainable world.
In order to support this transition, we work to evolve who gets to build business, for which purposes and how we build them. As a fieldbuilder and impact ecosystem investor, we are working to constantly evolve our thinking and methodologies to assess the impact potential of the projects we finance.
Our Theory of Change
helps to keep our eye on the prize, to keep our long term vision and mission in check and to share with others what we do and how we intend to move forward.
Our Impact Principles
guide us in our process to select and support the founders and businesses we work with. These principles reflect our beliefs about what kind of businesses are needed in the impact economy and put our values into practice.
Our Impact
Readiness Levels
structure progress toward scalable impact with product–impact–market fit.
Our Theory of Change
Our Impact Principles
Embedded throughout our investment process to evolve how we build businesses, for which purposes and who gets to build them
"We believe impact measurement should generate learning that is relevant at each stage of a startup's development and catalyze action—both individual and collaborative."
Suzanne Jenkins
Head of Impact & Systems Change
Impact Shakers
Impact Readiness Levels
The Impact Readiness Levels (IRLs) provide a framework for tracking the progress and development of a lockstep impact business model from initial intention to creating impact at scale. It highlights three key dimensions that co-evolve, helping to embed impact at the core of the business as it grows.
Impact in our
Investment Process
Our 11 Impact Principles guide us in our process to select the founders and businesses we work with. These principles reflect our beliefs about what kind of businesses are needed in the impact economy and put our values into practice. We designed the full process to enable us to select the founders that embody our vision and values the most.
Quote
Lisa Hehenberger
Director of the ESADE Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Impact Committees of
Rubio VC & Oryx Impact