Impact-First Asset Manager

Unsticking Impact Capital

Systemic bottlenecks continue to constrain and delay the timely deployment of impact capital. Join the first impact investor focused on "unsticking" and accelerating impact for companies addressing the world’s urgent challenges like climate change and inequality. Since its launch in March 2020, the Impact Fund has disbursed $50+ million in loans to more than 68 companies.

From Impasse to Impact

The Impact Fund—the first of our funds open to outside investors—”unsticks” systemic funding gaps across the impact finance ecosystem by providing short-term bridge loans to entrepreneurs, projects, and fund managers experiencing delays in financing disbursement. Our loans serve as the catalyst borrowers need to maintain their operations, accelerate the scale of their solutions, and increase their impact.

Case Studies

A Proven Model

The Impact Fund builds on Open Road’s expertise as the market leader in bridge financing.

Assess

The organizations we help all have strong business fundamentals but have hit an unexpected financing delay through no fault of their own. Through our proprietary risk assessment process specific to bridge financing, we evaluate the challenge facing these organizations and the potential for a short-term loan to generate high impact and a financial return.

Invest

We offer fast, flexible, and affordable funding—ranging from $250,000 to $1 million—to organizations with impact at their center, giving them fast access to short-term cash.

Return

Beyond keeping impact on track for social organizations providing critical services, investors also receive a 2 to 4 percent return on their investment—and an “impact return” that is many times greater.

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Impact Fund News & Updates

Open Road Impact Fund disburses first $50 million in loans, keeping over $0.5 billion of follow-up financing on track.

Today, the fund announced that it reached the successful disbursement of $50+ mi...

Open Road Impact Fund Keeps $100 Million of Impact on Track in First Year

Open Road Impact Fund continues to support high-impact investments across multip...

Open Road Impact Fund Named to the ImpactAssets 50 2021 & 2022 Emerging Impact Manager List

The Open Road Impact Fund (ORIF), the first investment fund designed to provide ...

Impact Fund - Frequently Asked Questions

What impact will the Impact Fund provide investors?

Every dollar invested in the Open Road Impact Fund is recycled at least four times. Every recycled dollar we lend returns 10X in additional follow-on financing.

Through its leveraged model, the Impact Fund is projected to disburse $75M+ during its five-year term. By the Fund’s maturity in 2025, it will have supported over 150 impact companies.

What safeguards does Open Road use to ensure that borrowers repay their loans?

We are highly-specialized experts in the niche market of short-term bridge financing. Our first fund, Open Road Ventures, proved both the market need for this type of financing and our ability to successfully identify those organizations with the highest likelihood of repayment.

Our proprietary risk assessment process is specific to the market of bridge financing. Core to Open Road’s repayment success is our customer service credo and focus on impact, which aligns our repayment with the goals of our borrowers. We source most of our pipeline directly from other impact investing organizations, creating a trusted network of referral partners.