Eliminate funding delays.

Accelerate impact.

Keeping Impact on Track

Whether it's closing a Series A round or COVID-19 supply chain delays, for a company that continues to scale their impact successfully, cash crunches are an ongoing part of their path to growth, from one milestone to the next. Open Road provides fast, flexible, short-term debt to keep growth and impact on track during critical ‘step-up’ moments for impact-first companies.

Our Model

Multiplied Returns

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.

The Impact Fund

$800M

Impact Kept on Track

10x

Leveraged Impact

300+

Impact Companies

The Impact Fund

A Decade of Impact

So much can happen in a decade. In the past 10 years, Open Road has disbursed more than $68 million, including $50 million in loans. In the next three years, we are poised to deploy another $50 million in loans, alone.

Need Funding?

We’ll help you through it.

Our loans and climate grants are designed to keep social enterprises moving toward impact. If you think that you are eligible for a one-time Open Road loan or grant, we’d love to hear from you.

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Impact in Action

From installing mini-grids in West Africa to addressing the challenges of financial inclusion in Colombia, Open Road’s loans are designed to ensure that companies addressing the world’s greatest challenges like climate change and inequality can continue to scale.

I hope you can provide critical support to social enterprises like Husk on a greater scale and a faster timeline. The clock is ticking, and we can't wipe out poverty without the Open Roads of the world.

Manoj Sinha • Husk Power

We have found Open Road's processes to be really best-in-class. Without losing your distinctive niche, it would be great over the next 10 years to see how that same approach could be applied to other instruments and a bigger pool of beneficiaries.

Paul Skidmore • Rising Academy Network

Open Road has been a key partner enabling REDAVIA's growth and impact to date. I wish for Open Road to scale its support while staying true to its essential values of being agile, on the side of impact, and there when needed most.

Erwin Spolders • Redavia

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Impact Investing Veteran Caroline Bressan Promoted to Open Road's CEO to Drive Next Phase of Growth

Caroline Bressan, currently Managing Director and a veteran of impact investing with a specialty in debt financing, is being promoted to CEO of Open Road, effective June 1st. Maya Winkelstein, who has been with the organization since its founding, will transition from her current role...