London, United Kingdom Mar 13, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - VC firm Boundary Capital has launched a new Impact investment fund for private investors called the Impact Life Fund. The fund’s purpose is to ‘enrich people’s lives’ - both the investors and the beneficiaries of the investment. Target investments are businesses with disruptive technologies that have the potential to positively impact at least 100m human lives, as well as targeting a 3x return overall over 5 years. The fund has an EIS structure to allow investors to also gain from tax breaks as well as the underlying economic and other benefits.
The Impact Life Fund takes a different approach to Impact investing by focusing on Business to Business (B2B) technologies that enable scalable Impact. This means that more Impact is generated for every pound invested. An illustration would be investing in wound care technology that reduces many patients’ care needs rather than investing in care homes. The technologies are predominately based in Life Sciences, Engineering, and IT industries.
The fund has developed a proprietary methodology measuring the lives impacted over a long-term period. The investment themes support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. These themes cover Environmental and Social issues.
Dan Somers, Managing Partner at Boundary Capital says: “Impact investment has mostly been socially-driven up until now. Now there is the opportunity for investors to make a return as well as optimizing the impact that their investments can make on human lives.”
Boundary has just announced the funds' latest investment into Inotec, a Cambridge based, fast-growing MedTech business that has developed a novel device capable of healing complex chronic wounds. The business has developed a world-leading Medtech product, called NATROX® Oxygen that generates pure humidified oxygen to treat a range of chronic wounds, from diabetic and venous ulcers to non-healing surgical wounds.
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About Boundary Capital
Boundary Capital was set up in 2009 initially from a network of business angels to become a venture capital company focusing on early-stage technology investments that positively impact and improve lives.
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