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Good Investor of the Year Award

The Good Investor of the Year Award is a prestigious accolade that recognises an organisation that has demonstrated exceptional commitment to responsible and impactful investing.

Nominees

Ada Ventures
Ascension VC
Kindred LCR
Nesta Impact Investments
Pathway Fund
Ada Ventures

Ada Ventures

Ada Ventures is committed to promoting diversity and sustainability within its investment portfolio. Currently, 70% of their portfolio companies feature at least one underrepresented founder, with 49% led by women and 45% by non-white founders. This contrasts sharply with the broader venture capital landscape, where only 11% of funding has gone to female founders and 4% to all-ethnic teams over the past decade. By intentionally supporting diverse founders, Ada Ventures aims to create a more equitable startup ecosystem and foster innovation that addresses the needs of underserved populations.
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Ascension VC

Ascension VC

Through our investments coupled with our impact thesis, we are progressively demonstrating that we can achieve impact simultaneously with outsized returns, proving that VC can be done with an impact focus without a detriment to fund performance. With our recent launch of Ascension Fund III, which is set to be the biggest fund yet with a £50m second close target, we are further demonstrating the potential of impact funds in both attracting LPs to the fund and attracting outlier businesses to the portfolio.
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Kindred LCR

Kindred LCR

Kindred is a pioneering social impact movement based in the Liverpool City Region, comprising over 1,000 socially trading organisations (STOs) and the BlaST network, which represents 250 Black and Brown-led organisations. Established to promote collaboration among STOs, Kindred leverages over 200 years of combined experience to drive meaningful change within the community. The organisation focuses on supporting socially driven enterprises that prioritise social purpose alongside commercial viability.
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Nesta Impact Investments

Nesta Impact Investments

Nesta was an early contributor to thinking on impact measurement within the sector, through its involvement with the Impact Management Project. Impact investing has grown tenfold in scale over the past decade, and NII continues to contribute to the dialogue around the importance of considering purpose alongside profit in investment strategies through our connections with other impact investors and purely commercial investors.
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Pathway Fund

Pathway Fund

We work with Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led intermediaries and fund managers to develop responsive financial products; till date we have developed three grant and repayable grant products which respond to the needs of our communities. We are continuing to develop both financial and non-financial support through co-design and in a responsive way. Working with intermediaries and fund managers, we focus on how our intervention can add value to our partners focusing on how we can work alongside the intermediaries and fund managers as long-term partners as opposed to building a strictly top-down funder-grantee relationship and power structure.
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Consumer Brand of the Year
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Businesswoman of the Year
Rising Star of the Year
Ally of the Year
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