Active Impact Investments

King Energy is a pioneering company specializing in delivering solar power solutions to multi-tenant commercial properties. It uniquely addresses the complexities of rooftop solar by leasing open roof spaces from property owners, managing all aspects of financing, installation, and long-term maintenance. The clean energy generated is then supplied to tenants at discounted rates.

ThinkLabs AI is a technology company that specializes in developing and deploying artificial intelligence solutions. Its primary focus is to enhance critical industries and infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on the energy sector. The company's core product is a grid planning platform designed to assist utility firms in managing the complexities of the electrical grid. This platform enables utility control room operators and planners to maintain grid reliability, reduce bottlenecks and outages, and proactively integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) to optimize grid capacity. ThinkLabs AI aims to contribute to global energy sustainability by empowering these industries with trustworthy AI solutions.

Lumo modernizes water management for agriculture, initially focusing on grape growers in California. Its software-first solutions aim to reduce water, energy, and labor costs by optimizing irrigation, ultimately helping farmers better manage their water resources.

SWTCH specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company's technology enables building owners to deploy EV chargers using existing grid infrastructure, avoiding costly upgrades. SWTCH Control, their energy management solution, provides real-time visibility into electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging.

Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.

Optiwatt is a software company that connects home electricity rate data with electric vehicle (EV) battery metrics. It securely integrates with EV apps, automatically finds users' utility costs based on their home address, and calculates the impact of charging on electric bills. Additionally, Optiwatt offers charge forecasting to alleviate range anxiety by accurately predicting savings from driving electric using real-time electricity rates and local gas prices.

Metafold is a Toronto-based B2B SaaS startup focused on advancing industrial 3D printing through its cloud-based Design for Additive Manufacturing software. The company specializes in lattice technology, which enables engineers to significantly reduce material usage—by as much as 85%—for products across various sectors, including aerospace, medical, automotive, and consumer goods. By streamlining the preprocessing required for additive manufacturing, Metafold helps clients expedite the product development process. Additionally, the software offers a geometry kernel accessible via an application programming interface, allowing original equipment manufacturers to integrate these capabilities into their own products. This approach not only facilitates the adoption of additive manufacturing but also enhances production efficiency and resource management for its clients.

Othersphere develops a SaaS platform that helps identify profitable and sustainable locations for deploying zero or low greenhouse gas industrial technologies. This enables companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions trajectories while gaining access to unique market insights.

Future facilitates everyday green choices by connecting users with sustainable brands through its payments network. It offers cashback rewards on eco-friendly purchases like public transport and electric charging.

Dispatch Goods designs and provides reusable packaging for the food service and delivery ecosystem. It manufactures reusable steel containers and operates a reverse logistics platform that collects, sanitizes, and returns containers, enabling restaurants, food trucks, and meal-delivery services to replace disposable packaging. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to deliver immediate cost savings for enterprise customers while reducing waste and carbon footprint by eliminating single-use packaging.

Agrology is an agricultural technology company that provides real-time data and predictive insights to help growers measure and improve the ecological and agronomic effects of regenerative and sustainable farming practices. The company tracks soil health, microbial activity, carbon cycles, nitrous oxide emissions, net ecosystem exchange, and microclimatic conditions to help growers link regenerative practices to verified greenhouse gas reductions and ecological benefits, support soil carbon sequestration, and generate carbon credits. Its system is designed to help farmers resist and adapt to climate change while monitoring greenhouse gases and informing sustainable farming decisions.

Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

RailVision Analytics is a Montréal-based company founded in 2019 that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency in the rail industry. The company's data analysis software is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption while improving safety. By providing clients with access to digital data related to locomotive operations and personnel activities, RailVision Analytics enables them to optimize train performance and efficiency. Its innovative solutions aim to address critical challenges in the rail sector, contributing to more sustainable and safer rail transportation.

Future facilitates everyday green choices by connecting users with sustainable brands through its payments network. It offers cashback rewards on eco-friendly purchases like public transport and electric charging.

Metafold is a Toronto-based B2B SaaS startup focused on advancing industrial 3D printing through its cloud-based Design for Additive Manufacturing software. The company specializes in lattice technology, which enables engineers to significantly reduce material usage—by as much as 85%—for products across various sectors, including aerospace, medical, automotive, and consumer goods. By streamlining the preprocessing required for additive manufacturing, Metafold helps clients expedite the product development process. Additionally, the software offers a geometry kernel accessible via an application programming interface, allowing original equipment manufacturers to integrate these capabilities into their own products. This approach not only facilitates the adoption of additive manufacturing but also enhances production efficiency and resource management for its clients.

Sustain.Life provides sustainability management software that helps organizations reduce and manage environmental and social governance impacts. The platform supports data collection, automation, science-based target setting, scenario and roadmap planning, and progress analysis and tracking. It enables prioritization of action areas, amplifies results, and helps measure, manage, and benchmark ESG performance against industry benchmarks and regulatory requirements.

Tengiva provides a B2B marketplace and e-commerce platform for the textile and clothing supply chain, offering a unified, structured database and integrated supply chain and product information management tools to simplify global sourcing, expand distribution, and accelerate product development. Its software centralizes in-stock textiles and curated fabrics from worldwide suppliers, enabling brands, manufacturers and other industry participants to optimize resources, increase transparency, mitigate risks, and promote sustainable practices. By consolidating data and workflows in a single interface, Tengiva supports end-to-end operations, from procurement to distribution, and builds a data foundation for AI applications in the textile sector.

SWTCH specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company's technology enables building owners to deploy EV chargers using existing grid infrastructure, avoiding costly upgrades. SWTCH Control, their energy management solution, provides real-time visibility into electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging.

Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling. The company builds smart hardware and software for HVAC controls focused on efficiency, comfort, electrification, and smart grid integration. The company's products are sold through multiple channels including direct to consumer, HVAC distribution, and utilities.

Manifest Climate operates as a climate intelligence platform that helps businesses address climate change, meet regulatory requirements, and identify opportunities to implement environmentally responsible practices. The company develops a climate risk management solution that transforms risks into actionable opportunities, supporting organizations in building resilience amidst evolving regulations and market expectations. Its platform delivers regularly curated industry-specific climate news, trends, and peer benchmarking, complemented by monthly reporting, to enhance corporate climate governance and reporting capabilities. Through these offerings, Manifest Climate aims to accelerate business alignment and action toward a climate-adjusted future.

Optiwatt is a software company that connects home electricity rate data with electric vehicle (EV) battery metrics. It securely integrates with EV apps, automatically finds users' utility costs based on their home address, and calculates the impact of charging on electric bills. Additionally, Optiwatt offers charge forecasting to alleviate range anxiety by accurately predicting savings from driving electric using real-time electricity rates and local gas prices.

Audette provides an analytics platform for commercial buildings that accelerates carbon reduction investments. The platform collects utility and equipment data, analyzes building operation, and generates recommendations and decarbonization roadmaps to improve performance. By helping property owners optimize energy management and access capital, Audette aims to unlock operating expense savings and reduce carbon emissions across large building portfolios.

Clir Renewables Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based renewable energy asset management and reporting software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in Glasgow, United Kingdom, Clir's software-as-a-service platform is designed to assist asset managers and owners in optimizing the performance and profitability of renewable energy plants. By integrating deep domain expertise with artificial intelligence, Clir’s platform enhances annual energy production, monitors asset health, and effectively manages financial and technical risks associated with renewable energy assets.

Encycle Corporation specializes in wireless electrical demand management solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. Based in Toronto with offices in California and the UK, the company offers automated demand response controllers that manage peak electrical demand across various building equipment types. Their products are installed directly or via distributors in California and New York, serving clients such as retail stores, office buildings, distribution centers, and food processing plants. Encycle's strategic partnership with Ayla Networks enhances its product offerings. Founded in 2005, the company changed its name from REGEN Energy Inc. to Encycle Corporation in 2015.

GlacierGrid is a company specializing in energy management solutions. It employs IoT technology for real-time energy usage optimization, helping businesses balance savings, efficiency, and sustainability while reducing their carbon footprint.

Manifest Climate operates as a climate intelligence platform that helps businesses address climate change, meet regulatory requirements, and identify opportunities to implement environmentally responsible practices. The company develops a climate risk management solution that transforms risks into actionable opportunities, supporting organizations in building resilience amidst evolving regulations and market expectations. Its platform delivers regularly curated industry-specific climate news, trends, and peer benchmarking, complemented by monthly reporting, to enhance corporate climate governance and reporting capabilities. Through these offerings, Manifest Climate aims to accelerate business alignment and action toward a climate-adjusted future.

SWTCH specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company's technology enables building owners to deploy EV chargers using existing grid infrastructure, avoiding costly upgrades. SWTCH Control, their energy management solution, provides real-time visibility into electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging.

RailVision Analytics is a Montréal-based company founded in 2019 that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency in the rail industry. The company's data analysis software is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption while improving safety. By providing clients with access to digital data related to locomotive operations and personnel activities, RailVision Analytics enables them to optimize train performance and efficiency. Its innovative solutions aim to address critical challenges in the rail sector, contributing to more sustainable and safer rail transportation.

SWTCH specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company's technology enables building owners to deploy EV chargers using existing grid infrastructure, avoiding costly upgrades. SWTCH Control, their energy management solution, provides real-time visibility into electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging.

GlacierGrid is a company specializing in energy management solutions. It employs IoT technology for real-time energy usage optimization, helping businesses balance savings, efficiency, and sustainability while reducing their carbon footprint.

Jaza Energy, established in 2015 and headquartered in Halifax, Canada, specializes in designing and developing integrated energy solutions for off-grid communities. The company's core business involves constructing solar energy charging stations in remote areas, providing a reliable and affordable electricity source for hundreds of households. These energy hubs power portable battery packs, which residents can use to illuminate homes, charge devices, and even support essential community infrastructure like water systems and schools, thereby eliminating the need for kerosene and long-distance travel for charging.

Inkblot Technologies Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Burlington, Canada, specializes in mental health care services. The company provides personalized video mental health counselling, one-on-one sessions, life coaching, crisis support, manager training, and group sessions. Inkblot employs advanced technologies to intelligently match clients with suitable counsellors or life coaches based on their needs and preferences, monitor treatment effectiveness, and eliminate geographical barriers. The company serves patients across Canada, offering a secure, affordable, and accessible means to improve mental health.

Social Nature operates a product launch platform that promotes emerging natural and organic consumer packaged goods brands by enabling users to test products for free in exchange for posting reviews. The platform gathers consumer feedback and generates insights that retailers use to decide which items to stock, helping users discover, try, and review healthy products.

Jaza Energy, established in 2015 and headquartered in Halifax, Canada, specializes in designing and developing integrated energy solutions for off-grid communities. The company's core business involves constructing solar energy charging stations in remote areas, providing a reliable and affordable electricity source for hundreds of households. These energy hubs power portable battery packs, which residents can use to illuminate homes, charge devices, and even support essential community infrastructure like water systems and schools, thereby eliminating the need for kerosene and long-distance travel for charging.

Sametrica provides a cloud‑based platform that enables governments, enterprises and nonprofits to quantify, manage and report the social impact of their investments. The service aggregates data, benchmarks outcomes against built‑in indicator databases, and offers monetization tools to translate social outcomes into measurable value. By streamlining data collection, analysis and reporting, the platform allows users to compare programs across multiple impact metrics and focus on the most meaningful results. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Toronto, Sametrica supports impact and ESG reporting for investment firms, helping them map, measure and showcase environmental and social performance.

ChopValue is a business focused on recycling disposable chopsticks into sustainable designer products, including furniture and decorative items. The company operates a franchise model that utilizes micro-factories to produce engineered products made entirely from recycled materials. By leveraging locally available resources, ChopValue aims to minimize its environmental footprint while transforming waste into functional homeware and office furnishings. This approach not only promotes sustainability but also provides consumers with handcrafted products at reasonable prices, contributing to a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Clir Renewables Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based renewable energy asset management and reporting software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in Glasgow, United Kingdom, Clir's software-as-a-service platform is designed to assist asset managers and owners in optimizing the performance and profitability of renewable energy plants. By integrating deep domain expertise with artificial intelligence, Clir’s platform enhances annual energy production, monitors asset health, and effectively manages financial and technical risks associated with renewable energy assets.

GoJava, founded in 2015 and based in Scarborough, Canada, focuses on recycling coffee pods across North America to address the environmental impact of waste from single-use coffee products. The company provides a comprehensive range of products through its online platform, including whole bean coffee, cold brew coffee, tea, prepared food, cold-pressed juice, and various kitchen supplies. Additionally, GoJava offers office services such as coffee and snack delivery, water filtration, catering, and holiday gift boxes, as well as home grocery delivery. By promoting recycling and zero waste initiatives, GoJava aims to simplify and enhance the sustainability practices of both individuals and businesses.

Keela is a fundraising CRM designed for nonprofits. It integrates donor data into communications, enabling targeted, multi-channel approaches. The platform helps improve donor relations by providing critical information such as when and how much to ask for donations.