Direct Equity Investments
Portfolio List
Everytable's innovative Social Equity Franchise Program fosters economic empowerment among entrepreneurs from marginalized communities by providing a clear and supported path to business ownership. Serving as a model approach to franchising, a system largely devoid of diversity and representation by people of color and women, the program provides critical access to capital for qualifying graduates plus in-depth, hands-on training to empower and prepare minority entrepreneurs to operate Everytable restaurants in their own communities.
Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company dedicated to catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and advances environmental justice.
Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) is a MN member-owned energy services cooperative that builds community wealth through energy efficiency and clean energy solutions that are accessible to everyone.
CleanFiber turns recycled cardboard into high-quality, low-cost cellulose insulation while reducing environmental impact.
Totem is creating pathways to financial inclusion for Native Americans through digital banking. They partner with sovereign tribal governments to deliver culturally relevant financial products and education, make tribal benefits more accessible, and help the growing number of self-identifying Natives born off-rez connect to culture.
Ultranauts provides onshore quality engineering and assurance services to F500 enterprises, hyper-growth startups, and top-tier digital consultancies. Their cognitively diverse teams, 75% of whom are on the autism spectrum, are uniquely equipped to improve data and software quality across a wide range of industries undergoing digital transformation.
Helping communities, non-profits, and municipalities develop affordable community supported solar projects across West Virginia.
Red Bay Coffee is at the forefront of “the fourth wave of coffee” —a firm commitment to ensure coffee production is not only high quality and sustainable, but a vehicle for diversity, inclusion, social and economic restoration, entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability.
Komaza is a non-profit social enterprise committed to reducing rural poverty by connecting smallholder farmers with high-value markets.
Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher with the mission of connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all.
The Tanka Bar is based on a centuries old Lakota recipe and is the product of Native American Natural Foods (NANF) — a Native American natural food brand based on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. NANF creates and sells healthy foods based on buffalo meat, which restores and preserves their lands, ecosystems and the Buffalo.
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC) aligns the technical, financial, and organizational inputs to support Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, and steward mixed-use and residential property in the East Bay.
Complete Solar Solution offers a wide range of solar products and financing programs to help consumers reduce their electricity bills.
Born and raised in the East Bay, Firebrand is committed to serving the community both as an employer and as a local artisan bakery. Firebrand is committed to hiring formerly incarcerated and homeless people. The investment was designed to include workers in profit sharing alongside investors, and to transfer partial ownership of the company into a Purpose Trust to ensure long-term mission preservation.
Trove works with brands such as Patagonia, REI and Eileen Fisher to develop channels that take control of the resale marketplace, which deepens customer engagement, increases profit and helps the planet by advancing the circular economy.
Bitwise Industries creates a bridge between humans from marginalized communities and stories of systemic poverty to skills and resources necessary to access opportunities in the tech industry.
Cornbread is a fast-casual farm-to-table restaurant focusing on authentic savory soul food, ingredients all sourced from local farmers, and the use of innovative technology to provide a unique and family friendly dining experience.
Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.
Traditional Medicinals is an herbal medicine tea company committed to using high quality pharmacopoeial grade herbs and embracing ingredient purity and sustainability.
Mosaic is the nation's leading residential solar lending platform, helping thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Organically Grown Company is promoting health through organic agriculture as a leading produce distributor in the Pacific Northwest, as well as pioneering the perpetual purpose trust steward-ownership model.
CleanChoice Energy is a clean energy supplier whose mission is to make 100% renewable energy available to everyone.
Powerhive develops scalable, bankable off-grid utility solutions to create a future where everyone has access to clean energy and the opportunities that come with it
Namaste Solar is transforming energy to create a brighter future powered by renewables and transforming business to be a force for good in the world.