Untapped Opportunity : A Guide to Impact Investing in Startups

A Financial Times’ survey has shown 96% of US investors expect their portfolio to increase its focus on ESG (Environmental,Social and Corporate Governance) as an investment criteria. Yet, do we really understand the nuances of impact investing?

Impact investing is an art, but also a science to understand how to effectively balance intentional impact while maintaining financial returns. There are a few things that need to be considered before making an impact investment in a startup – what you care about, what your strategy is, and how you measure impact.

In this webinar, we will walk you through how to kickstart your journey as an impact investor and also share a checklist to start building your impact portfolio, with a strategy that is best suited for you.

Investment is always about choice, you are the driver to determine where your capital can create the impact we need for tomorrow’s future. Join us to become the frontrunners!

Agenda :

• Definition of impact: key terms & concepts
• Due Diligence on the business and impact assessment
• What are the questions that you should be asking startups when you invest in impact projects?
• Practical case analysis

Katy Yung – Managing Partner, SFi

Katy is Managing Partner at HK-based Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) platform, advising and supporting family offices and investors on their sustainable and impact journeys.

Katy has served as Director of Investment at RS Group, a HK-based impact investor since 2010. She led the family office’s transition from a traditional investment portfolio to one that is 100% sustainably invested. In this role, she was actively involved in designing impact and climate change strategies and implementation across asset classes (utilizing both investment and philanthropic capital). Katy remains as consultant to RS Group.

Simon Oberman – Director, Artemis Impact

Simon started his career in Fintech where he founded his first company almost a decade back and since then has led various teams through their product development cycle.

In 2013, Simon successfully exited his first company and moved to Indonesia, where he then worked as a consultant with agro-tech based companies. In 2018 he co-founded Artemis Impact – an Outcome-Based funding & Impact Measurement network for organizations – social or corporate.

He now leads the Artemis Impact team in South East Asia, having launched their product last year. Simon is also the chair of the ‘Corporate Citizenship Committee’ of AmCham, Indonesia & Advisor to Supernova, a bottom-up impact fund active in southeast Asia.