Companies providing solutions for societal challenges
A leading indicator of the positive impact we seek to make as VP Capital is the number of companies that actively contribute to solutions for the identified societal challenges (viewed across the investment portfolio). As part of the screening of our portfolio, this was assessed on a company-by-company basis.
Capital allocated to underserved communities
We screen our investment portfolio on capital invested in underserved communities. To do this, we developed definitions and created a framework, looking among other things at the definitions used by the B Corp movement. This screening enabled us to identify which portfolio companies contribute to which specific underserved communities and in what way. The analysis made a distinction between healthrelated contributions, such as offering healthcare to groups that have insufficient access to it, and socio-economic contributions, such as offering education, energy or financing to local communities in the developing world.
