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GoParity is a fintech platform that operates as a crowdlending marketplace, connecting individuals and companies interested in sustainable investing with projects and companies seeking funding for initiatives that contribute to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Lisbon-based company was founded in 2017 with the mission of democratizing access to sustainable finance.
GoParity's platform allows users to invest in a wide range of projects across sectors such as renewable energy, eco-fashion, sustainable aquaculture, and education. Investors can start investing with as little as EUR 5, making impact investing accessible to a broader audience. The platform vets the projects based on their potential impact, financial viability, and risk profile before listing them for crowdlending.
As of January 2023, GoParity had gathered over 30,000 users from over 70 countries and facilitated investments totaling EUR 10.4 million in 2021 alone, a significant increase from EUR 2 million invested in 2020. These investments have positively impacted nearly 200,000 people, created 7,000 jobs, and helped prevent the emissions of over 23,000 tons of CO2. GoParity reported doubling its turnover in 2022.
In July 2022, GoParity successfully raised EUR 1.2 million through an equity crowdfunding campaign, attracting both institutional investors and individual investors from its user community. The company plans to utilize the funds to expand its operations across Europe and North America, develop new financial products, and enhance its platform.

Freyr Energy is a full-service solar company that offers a range of smart solar rooftops, pumps, petrol pumps, and micro grids. Freyr Energy was founded by Saurabh Marda and Radhika Choudary in 2014 and is based in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Biofuels Junction is a key factor in India's solid biofuels value chain and a desired partner for stakeholders. Biofuels Junction has made a name for itself among high-profile corporate customers by focusing on quality, dependability, and compliance. Our long-term goal is to create a cleaner environment by replacing fossil fuels and to help the rural economy by increasing farmer income. Biofuels Junction today produces, aggregates, and promotes sales of 9000+ tons of biomass fuel each month, thanks to strong leadership and a capable workforce. Biofuels Junction is a responsible member of the solid biofuels value chain, offering solutions ranging from farm residue collection to supplier development to big-scale aggregation and supply chain advising.

Selex Motors, a startup in electric vehicles, is making urban transportation in busy cities of Southeast Asia green and empowering by offering the next generation of personal mobility.

Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access. Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.

Enogrid provides energy monitoring solutions. It also allows users to measure and optimize the performance of building operations, visualize energy flows, customize distribution coefficients, monitor self-energy consumption, access transaction documents, and more.

GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans.  Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact. We are driving the transition towards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com

Carbon Masters helps organisations to measure, manage, reduce and report their carbon emissions, Our raison d´etre is a passion to help people in both their professional and personal lives reduce their carbon impact and to adapt to inevitable climate change. Carbon Masters two founding partners bring a range of complementary skills and capabilities, youthful enthusiasm and experience, and an understanding of both the developing and developed worlds. Passion, global insight, and technical mastery are the values they aspire to bring to the company. Carbon Masters was established in 2009 and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector to help them take steps to reduce their carbon emissions. The company now has offices in Edinburgh (UK), Bangalore (India) and Quito (Ecuador) and plans for a Carbon Masters USA are also on the horizon.

Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-driven solution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy. Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Oorja aims to provide clean energy access to 450 million un/underelectrified people in rural Indian communities. They deploy smart micro-grids powered by biomass gasification and solar PV systems to generate, store and transmit reliable and affordable electricity to SMEs as anchor load and low-income households. They use a scaleable community-owned business model to leverage energy provision as a catalyst for socio-economic development to alleviate poverty, empower women and tackle climate change.

Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia is an investment fund dedicated to early and growth stage ventures in the energy access segment in South and Southeast Asia.

Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia (SEEAA) is an impact investment fund launched in December 2019 by Schneider Electric, with support from Norfund, ElectriFI, and Amundi. The fund focuses on investing in early-stage companies in the off-grid energy access space across South and Southeast Asia. SEEAA aims to connect rural households, small businesses, and collective services such as schools and health stations to electricity. The fund targets investments across the value chain, including companies involved in manufacturing and distribution activities in both solar home systems (SHS) and mini-grid spaces.
SEEAA's primary objective is to bridge the energy access gap in the region and foster the adoption of renewables in the energy mix to support net-zero goals. The fund committed to connecting more than 1 million people to reliable and affordable electricity supply and avoiding approximately 150,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually. As of December 2019, SEEAA aimed to reach 350 million people in South and Southeast Asia. The fund operates in multiple countries, including India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Cambodia.

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