Opes Impact Fund

Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.

Sistema.bio is a manufacturer of prefabricated modular biodigester systems for farmers to produce fertilizer and biogas. The company provides biogas solutions for thermal energy used in cooking and mechanical energy in farming.

Il Ponte deals with social inclusion and job placement for disadvantaged people, including individuals with disabilities or social fragility. Il Ponte is a type B cooperative that aims to enable these people to acquire manual skills and abilities through experience and vocational training, in order to enable their inclusion in local businesses and make them feel like an active part of society. The cooperative’s activities include assembly, packaging, and other processing of products for third parties.

Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute in reduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.

MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.

La Differenza is a social cooperative that deals with job placement for people with disabilities or socially fragile people. The cooperative also deals with accessible tourism for people with disabilities and social communication through the “Rotellando” project. Priority goals of the cooperative include promoting accessible tourism, catering, and communication, as well as the employment of underprivileged individuals through recruitment, training internships, and social inclusion pathways, as well as the promotion of independent living and mobility for people with disabilities.

Gea is a social cooperative that manages apartment groups and micro-residential activities for adults with psycho-intellectual disabilities. The GEA cooperative operates with a view to networking and collaboration with the realities of the territory, both with those that deal purely with disabilities and with those that operate in other areas, always related to social contexts. GEA has distinguished itself in the panorama of its territory by carrying out intense awareness-raising activities aimed at breaking down the social stigma that has always been held against mental disability and psychiatric suffering.

Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.

Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’ experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers. Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.

KadAfrica provides curriculum-based and hands-on training, access to land, quality seedling, agro-inputs, and technical support, bulked transport, and a ready market, cooperative support and saving schemes, post-program capacity building, and business​ straining.

Devergy is a social energy utility, providing a reliable, affordable electricity service to low-income people in developing countries.

Ignite Holding Company Inc. was a technology startup that provided prepaid solar power in off-grid communities in Guatemala and Colombia under the Kingo tradename. Ignite was acquired in 2022 by Kingo Holding Company, Inc.

The Boond mission is to solve some of the biggest global challenges - adequate lighting, access to clean drinking water and pest control affecting the remote areas of the world. Through its innovative environment friendly products and sustainable business oriented approach. The Boond team is highly motivated and well trained by SELCO and IIM-Ahmedabad Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship and comprises mostly of local resources.

AFRIpads Ltd. is a social business in Uganda that manufactures and sells cost-effective cloth sanitary pads. AFRIpads aims to empower women and girls through business, innovation and opportunity.

EcoPost Limited Kenya has local labor and resources to produce an innovative product and help solve pressing socioeconomic and environmental challenges and recycles waste plastic to manufacture eco-friendly plastic lumber. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.

Kamworks is a solar energy company aimed at making innovative products for off-grid populations in Cambodia and beyond. Kamworks has developed an award-winning solar light, the MoonLight, as well as several other products. By setting up assembly in country, Kamworks aims at technology transfer and better service. In Cambodia, there are approximately 10 million people without access to the grid, spending an estimated $170M per year on fossil fuels for light, phone and TV. <BR/> Globally, there are approximately 1.4 billion people without access to grid electricity. For 10 million off-grid rural people in Cambodia, Kamworks solar products provide an affordable, clean and safe alternative to inefficient, fire hazardous and unhealthy kerosene lighting and cumbersome car battery charging with diesel generators.

Nazava Water Filters provides the most affordable and safest household water filters in Indonesia which enables households to access clean drinking water without the need to boil water or use electricity.

Copia Global provides a consumer catalog order and delivery system intended to serve consumers in the developing world. Its service leverages mobile technologies and a network of agents serving as distribution points, enabling rural and peri-urban consumers to get a wide range of quality goods at reasonable prices.

Estufa Doa Dora is a designer and manufacturer of wood-saving stoves. reduces firewood consumption up to 50percent and heats up to pour the first tortilla in 5 minutes.

Based in California, The Pachamama Coffee Cooperative of Small-Scale Coffee Producers is a unique global cooperative that is wholly-owned and controlled by small-scale coffee farmers around the world. Pachamama’s member-cooperatives represent tens of thousands of families in Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Ethiopia. Buying organic coffee directly from farmers means better coffee for you, a better life for the farm family and a healthier environment for us all. Pachamama distributes freshly roasted coffee web-direct and wholesale to select retailers. 100% of profit are paid to our farmer-owners, whose best organic coffee is roasted in small batches in California. If you would like to learn more about Pachamama, please email info(at)pacha.coop, or give us a call at (530) 204-7554. Gracias. Visit our new coffee gallery & factory store at 919 20th Street in Sacramento, California.

Sustaintech produces a range of commercial cookstoves to street food vendors and community kitchens. The environmentally-friendly, fuel-efficient, and smokeless stoves allow for healthier workplaces and substantial savings. Sustaintech is an offshoot of TIDE, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting sustainable development through technological innovation.

Iwokrama is an international not-for-profit organization that preserves an endangered biodiverse forest. It is governed by an International Board of Trustees and managed by a professional team of around seventy permanent staff in Georgetown and at the Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre at Kurupukari.