In ten years, a financial market has emerged. A global market, but also anchored in a local reality. A market where capital is "put to work" for "more meaning". In the jargon of private equity, this is called impact investing. It is a double promise, that of financial performance on the one hand, and a social or environmental impact on the other. It is also about actively coaching executives to maximize impact, and aligning the investment team's interests with objectives.

It is certainly a market, but they are first and foremost entrepreneurs. Invest with impact for companies with impact.

IMPACT comes to life in 2007 with this vision of investment and the desire to create economic opportunities and jobs in the working class neighbourhoods. Today IMPACT supports entrepreneurs, developing remarkable social impacts and looking to change scale with IMPACT Growth or who want to create their franchise business in a deprived urban neighbourhood with IMPACT Creation.

IMPACT is also an animator of its ecosystem with about forty events organized per year. They are an opportunity to bring together large groups and social entrepreneurs during the Impacting Purchasing Tour, to create recruitment opportunities for young people from working-class neighbourhoods during Apprentice Datings, or to talk about entrepreneurship in high schools during Entrepreneurship Month in the same deprived neighbourhoods..

Solidarity is the most intelligent of all bets. [...] Everyone, supported when the time comes by all the others, everyone, must become the entrepreneur of himsef.

Erik Orsenna, member of the Académie Française, IMPACT&Cie

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