Encourage Capital

What is Encourage Capital?

Encourage Capital is an investment firm that adopts a unique approach toward addressing social and environmental challenges through profitable investments. They focus on making investments that not only provide compelling financial returns but also create significant social and environmental impacts.

Their investment thesis revolves around the creation of 'Solutions Strategies,' which begin by identifying a critical social or environmental issue, analyzing it systemically, and then developing cost-effective, impactful, and systemic approaches. These approaches aim to catalyze innovative, replicable, and scalable investments suitable for commercial capital while promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration.

The sectors they target include Clean Energy Finance, Financial Inclusion, Environmental Markets, Sustainable Infrastructure, Sustainable Seafood, and Water. By investing in these areas, Encourage Capital aims to deploy private capital into solutions that tackle the world's most pressing challenges.

They offer a community for investors, foundations, market-leading companies, and non-profits to come together in this endeavor. Encourage Capital was formed in December 2014 through the merger of Wolfensohn Fund Management, LP and EKO Asset Management Partners, LLC, bringing together expertise, an investment track record, conviction, relationships, passion, and vision to scale up impact investing. Moreover, their work in the Colorado River Basin, as detailed in the 'Liquid Assets: Investing for Impact in the Colorado River Basin' report, showcases their commitment to turning theoretical strategies into practical outcomes to preserve vital resources.