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The World Is Converging on Impact

Systemic bottlenecks continue to constrain and delay the timely deployment of impact capital. Join the first investment fund designed to accelerate the time to impact for companies addressing the world’s urgent challenges like climate change and inequality. The Impact Fund will disburse up to $100 million in short-term loans—keeping $1 billion of impact on track.

From Impasse to Impact

The Impact Fund—the first of our funds open to outside investors—invests in impact-first companies that are experiencing unexpected, externally caused financing delays. Our bridge loans solve that crunch, keeping impact on track and accelerating toward scale.

Case Study

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.

Leveraged Impact

The Impact Fund targets high-impact investments. Every dollar invested in Open Road is recycled and also leverages 10x in additional follow-on financing.

Open Road Alliance steps in at critical financial junctures in the lifecycle of social organizations and provides the kind of bridge financing that has been ignored by traditional finance and philanthropies, which either aren’t set up to do this type of work or don’t have the sector expertise to serve these types of borrowers.

Dr. Judith Rodin

Advisory Board Member, Open Road Impact Fund

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Learn more about our portfolio and investment opportunities with impact-first organizations that also have solid financials.

Impact Fund - Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Open Road Impact Fund?

The Impact Fund remains the only impact investing fund focused on providing short-term bridge loans to impact companies. It is also the first Open Road fund that is open to outside investors, allowing them to access high-impact investments across multiple geographies that also provide a financial return.

Impact Fund loans range from $100,000 to $1M and are extended to social impact companies located primarily in Africa, the U.S., Latin America, and South Asia. The Fund is designed to give investors a 2-4% return.

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.