Opinion

How much are corporates committing to social investment?

Alliance investments editor Claudia Cahalane meets social investment leaders and innovators at Impact Europe’s Impact Transfomers event, at The Hague from 11-13 of June 2024.

Claudia Cahalane |
How much are corporates committing to social investment?

On day one of Impact Transformers at the Hague, I find myself in an industrial kitchen with Netherland’s food waste social enterprise KiCo, chopping vegetables and pickling them. The cross-section of participants at my table gives a flavour of who you might meet at this two day event.

While creating my jar of condiment, I met someone from an American impact investment consultancy, a British impact investor working with dormant assets, a Brazilian impact investor raising for a $30m clean tech fund, and sportswear giant Decathlon’s leader of equity and impact.