Save the Children Global Ventures

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SCGV invests in innovative projects and companies making transformative impact for children across education, health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, and related infrastructure in the world's most challenging places. They mobilize capital through impact investment funds and innovative finance mechanisms to address the $4.2 trillion funding gap facing vulnerable children globally.

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Focus Areas

Healthtech, Edtech, Climate Cleantech

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Investment Thesis

Save the Children Global Ventures pioneered ‘child-lens investing,’ which integrates considerations of children’s rights and well-being across investment processes to advance positive outcomes for children. They combine impact investment expertise with deep understanding of child development, leveraging Save the Children’s 100+ years of experience and global reach. Their approach emphasizes ‘results for children first,’ using rigorous pre-investment screening and post-investment impact measurement to ensure investments deliver exceptionally high impact for children.

What Sets Them Apart

First-of-its-kind platform explicitly focused on child-lens investing with integrated impact measurement tools
Backed by Save the Children's unparalleled global reach, networks, and 100+ years of expertise working with children
Combination of patient/catalytic capital through the Children's Impact Multiplier Fund alongside commercially-structured funds
Deep local knowledge and expertise in 31+ countries where they operate
Unique ability to identify and scale interventions that traditional finance overlooks
Integration of climate finance and nature-based solutions into child-focused strategy