OUR PORTFOLIO

Candide Group takes a "100% portfolio activation" approach to impact investment. While we focus on private investments in our practice, we actively partner with other managers to build diverse, impactful portfolios across asset classes.

Candide Group has supported over 100 investments in companies and funds, including:

Direct Equity Investments

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Cadence is bringing over the counter (OTC) birth control pills to market.

Direct Equity

Liberty & Justice is Africa's first fair-trade certified apparel manufacturer, creating jobs in Liberia and Ghana.

Direct Equity

Direct Equity, Equity Fund

Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market.

Direct Equity, Equity Fund

Direct Equity

Mayvenn enables Stylists to sell products directly to their clients without the upfront costs and burdens of holding inventory.

Direct Equity

Namaste Solar is a worker-owned cooperative solar installer seeking to propagate the responsible use of solar energy, pioneer conscientious business practices, and create holistic wealth for communities.

Direct Equity

Traditional Medicinals is an herbal medicine tea company committed to using high quality pharmacopoeial grade herbs and embracing ingredient purity and sustainability.

Direct Equity

Trove works with brands such as Patagonia, REI and Eileen Fisher to develop channels that take control of the resale marketplace, which deepens customer engagement, increases profit and helps the planet by advancing the circular economy.

Direct Equity

CleanChoice Energy is a clean energy supplier whose mission is to make 100% renewable energy available to everyone.

Direct Equity

Complete Solar Solution offers a wide range of solar products and financing programs to help consumers reduce their electricity bills.

Direct Equity

Komaza is a non-profit social enterprise committed to reducing rural poverty by connecting smallholder farmers with high-value markets.

Direct Equity

Lend Street is a lending platform for debt restructuring and refinancing.

Direct Equity

Mosaic is the nation's leading residential solar lending platform, helping thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.

Direct Equity

Sparkfund powers organizations by providing access to the latest energy technology.

Direct Equity

Translator is a technology enabled 360° Platform For Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion.

Direct Equity

Uncommon Cacao is an premium cacao supply chain operation revolutionizing local economies by linking small holder farmers to the specialty cacao industry, through a focus on consistently delivering quality beans.

Direct Equity

Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries.

Direct Equity

Solar Holler is bringing residential and commercial solar to West Virginia.

Direct Equity

CleanFiber turns recycled cardboard into high-quality, low-cost cellulose insulation while reducing environmental impact.

Direct Equity

Bitwise Industries creates a bridge between humans from marginalized communities and stories of systemic poverty to skills and resources necessary to access opportunities in the tech industry.

Direct Equity

Organically Grown Company is promoting health through organic agriculture as a leading produce distributor in the Pacific Northwest, as well as pioneering the perpetual purpose trust steward-ownership model.

Direct Equity

Through their revolutionary restaurant model, Everytable offers healthy, made-from-scratch meals that everyone can afford.

Direct Equity

Ultranauts provides onshore quality engineering and assurance services to F500 enterprises, hyper-growth startups, and top-tier digital consultancies. Their cognitively diverse teams, 75% of whom are on the autism spectrum, are uniquely equipped to improve data and software quality across a wide range of industries undergoing digital transformation.

Direct Equity

Red Bay Coffee is at the forefront of “the fourth wave of coffee” —a firm commitment to ensure coffee production is not only high quality and sustainable, but a vehicle for diversity, inclusion, social and economic restoration, entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability

Direct Equity

Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher with the mission of connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all.

Direct Equity

The Tanka Bar is based on a centuries old Lakota recipe and is the product of Native American Natural Foods (NANF) — a Native American natural food brand based on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. NANF creates and sells healthy foods based on buffalo meat, which restores and preserves their lands, ecosystems and the Buffalo.

Direct Equity

Born and raised in the East Bay, Firebrand is committed to serving the community both as an employer and as a local artisan bakery. Firebrand is committed to hiring formerly incarcerated and homeless people. The investment was designed to include workers in profit sharing alongside investors, and to transfer partial ownership of the company into a Purpose Trust to ensure long term mission preservation.

Direct Equity

Cornbread is a fast-casual farm-to-table restaurant focusing on authentic savory soul food, ingredients all sourced from local farmers, and the use of innovative technology to provide a unique and family friendly dining experience.

Direct Equity

ChiFresh Kitchen tackles unemployment and food disparity on South and West Side Chicago communities.

Direct Equity

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Jul 28, 2021

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Jul 28, 2021

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Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) is a MN member-owned energy services cooperative that builds community wealth through energy efficiency and clean energy solutions that are accessible to everyone.

Jul 28, 2021

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Oct 20, 2021

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Oct 20, 2021

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Zero Grocery is the first plastic-free grocery delivery service. Partnering with local producers when possible, Zero helps cut plastic waste by incorporating reusable food containers into the delivery model.

Oct 20, 2021

Direct Equity.

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

Jan 5, 2022

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Jan 5, 2022

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EB PREC aligns technical, financial, and organizational needs to support Black and Indigenous people and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, and steward mixed-use and residential property in the East Bay.

Jan 5, 2022

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Jan 5, 2022

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Jan 5, 2022

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Aclima is a purpose-driven technology company dedicated to catalyzing bold climate action that protects public health, reduces emissions, and advances environmental justice.

Jan 5, 2022

Direct Equity.

Loans and Debt Funds

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Debt, Direct Investments

All Across Africa (AAA) brings best business practices to artisans in Africa through market development, training, and teaching.

Debt, Direct Investments

Community Housing Capital is an affordable housing CDFI supporting local, non-profit developers.

Debt, Direct Investments

Gigawatt Global is a multinational renewable energy company focused on the development of utility scale solar projects in the global south.

Debt, Direct Investments

Greenhealth Exchange is a network of healthcare providers sourcing and purchasing sustainable medical products.

Debt, Direct Investments

My Strong Home provides financing for home fortifications in storm-prone communities, using savings from home insurance premiums.

Debt, Direct Investments

One Acre Fund supplies smallholder subsistence farmers in East Africa with financing and training as well as tools, seed, fertilizers, market access, and weather-related risk insurance.

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RSF Social Finance frames all of its work in terms of an overarching Purpose informed by a set of core Values. Amongs other products they manage a debt fund with a diverse portfolio of social enterprises.

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Debt, Direct Investments

Shared Interest works to mobilize the resources for South Africa's economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build an equitable nation.

Debt, Direct Investments

Funds, Debt

Thousand Currents partners with grassroots groups — led by women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples in the Global South — that are transforming their communities and creating lasting solutions to our shared global challenges.

Funds, Debt

Direct Investments, Debt

The Working World builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support.

Direct Investments, Debt

Funds, Debt

MCE Social Capital is a nonprofit impact investing firm that uses a pioneering loan guarantee model to generate economic opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people, particularly women, in more than 30 countries.

Funds, Debt

Debt

Advance Global Capital, a financial services company based in the UK, specializes in trade receivables financing in emerging markets.

Debt

Navajo Power was founded to maximize the economic benefits of clean energy for tribal and impacted communities.

Debt

is a social enterprise that supports wildlife conservation in Eastern Zambia, by working with illegal wildlife poachers to provide alternative livelihood skills and train small-scale farmers in the leading practices of climate-smart, sustainable agriculture.

Debt

is a coalition of community groups to acquire a large-scale organic property in the Central Valley and transition ownership from industrial owners to first-generation immigrant family farmers.

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Small business loans for Arab-owned firms that are often excluded from the traditional banking systems in Israel.

Debt

Private Equity and Venture Funds

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Direct Equity, Equity Fund

Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market.

Direct Equity, Equity Fund

Equity Fund

CrossBoundary Energy is an investment company that dedicates its funds to commercial and industrial solar in Africa.

Equity Fund

Gawa Capital promotes social and economic development in under-served markets to foster entrepreneurship and job creation.

Equity Fund

HCAP Partners is a provider of growth capital to lower-middle market companies throughout California and the Western United States.

Equity Fund

Impact America Fund is an investment company that funds market opportunities which use technology to enhance the lives of all Americans.

Equity Fund

Investeco is a Canadian investment company financing high growth sustainable food and agriculture companies.

Equity Fund

Through the use of tailored financing alternatives, Adobe Capital supports impact driven entrepreneurs who are able to create innovative, profitable and scalable business models to address the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Equity Fund

EIF is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability.

Equity Fund

A merger between Cross Culture and M Ventures, MaC is an early stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious.

Equity Fund

Impact Engine is a women-owned and led investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.

Equity Fund

The world's only PI fund of funds firm focused on reducing implicit bias to unlock impact and returns

Equity Fund

Core invests in companies that deliver more efficient, well-designed financial products that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale.

Equity Fund

Huruma Fund is an impact investment fund that will provide financing to smallholder farmers or those excluded in rural areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

Equity Fund

Raven Indigenous Capital Partners facilitate the flow of capital through impact investing, and support the ongoing revitalization of the Indigenous economy in Canada.

Equity Fund

Atlanta-based investment fund leveraging financial, human, and social capital to help Black founders build sustainable, innovation-centered businesses.

Equity Fund

By combining the speed and scale of Private Equity with the preservation and wealth creation power of Employee Ownership, specifically a 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) — Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (A&H) is attacking the Racial Wealth Gap and helping to restore dignity and status to the American Worker.

Equity Fund

Kapor Capital is the venture capital arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact. It is an equity fund that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.

Equity Fund

Real Estate and Real Asset Funds

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Real Assets

Ecotrust Forest Management (EFM) is a forestland investment management and advisory services company that works to enhance forest health and productivity.

Real Assets

Jonathan Rose Companies is a green real estate policy, development, project management and investment firm.

Real Assets

National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) represents and serves over 100 non-profit community development and asset-building organizations that are anchor institutions in our nation’s Latino communities.

Real Assets

Dirt Capital Partners invests in farmland in partnership with farmers throughout the Northeast United States, promoting sustainable farmers’ land access and security.

Real Assets

Founded shortly after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007, Blackstar began as a state-funded program designed to keep families in their homes. Blackstar Stability fund has now helped hundreds of families across the US.

Real Assets

Olamina Fund

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Jun 10, 2021

Appalachian Community Capital provides reliable and sufficient capital for its membership of CDFIs and mission-driven lenders to support economic growth, increased entrepreneurship, higher quality jobs, and increased local wealth in the Appalachian region.

Jun 10, 2021

Nov 5, 2020

Baltimore Community Lending supports the revitalization and strengthening of underserved Baltimore neighborhoods through innovative and flexible financial assistance designed to promote community development.

Nov 5, 2020

Dec 3, 2021

Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) is a 31 year old 501 C-3 not-for-profit that provides financial, policy, research, and technical assistance to small businesses throughout North Carolina. We focus on underserved communities with an emphasis on businesses owned by people of color, women, veterans, rural residents, and low income individuals. Resources from Olamina Fund will help CSBDF by providing lower cost debt that will allow us to augment our Revolving Loan Fund and refinance higher cost debt.

Dec 3, 2021

Jan 12, 2021

Community Housing Capital (CHC) is certified as a community development financial institution (CDFI) and a community development entity (CDE) by the U.S. Treasury’s CDFI Fund. It aggregates loan capital to finance the creation and preservation of affordable housing

Jan 12, 2021

Jun 10, 2021

Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis has been a key power-building base for the African American community for seventy years. The team’s dream is for the community to own the property, specifically the descendants of the Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968, and to advance the cultural and economic production of African American artists and entrepreneurs.

Jun 10, 2021

Oct 20, 2021

HDDC is one of Atlanta’s oldest surviving community development corporations and the only non-profit organization specifically dedicated to preserving the availability of affordable housing in the Old Fourth Ward district. For nearly four decades, HDDC has been a catalyst for equitable urban revitalization in Atlanta.

Oct 20, 2021

Apr 15, 2020

is a women of color-led credit union and CDFI serving the Deep South.

Apr 15, 2020

Oct 20, 2021

Kibilio Community and Farm is rooted in Black and Queer land sovereignty. It is an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice.

Oct 20, 2021

Jun 10, 2021

The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders is a national membership organization and certified CDFI that advances economic mobility in Latinx communities.

Jun 10, 2021

Native Community Capital is a Native CDFI that serve tribes on a regional basis to advance tribal self-determination by unlocking capital resources necessary to build tribal economies.

Jun 10, 2021

NDN Fund is the impact investing and lending arm of the NDN Collective, providing financing for large-scale Indigenous regenerative community and national development projects that dramatically scale up investment and shift all decision-making power to Indigenous peoples.

Jun 10, 2021

Feb 14, 2020

is a woman-led CDFI which serves primarily rural residents of cooperatively-governed manufactured housing parks.

Feb 14, 2020

Apr 15, 2020

is a Native American, female-led CDFI intermediary serving Native America, Native Hawaii and Alaska Native lands.

Apr 15, 2020

Jun 10, 2021

PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.

Jun 10, 2021

Apr 28, 2020

RCAC provides training, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities can achieve their goals and visions.

Apr 28, 2020

Oct 23, 2020

Shared Capital Cooperative is a national loan fund and federally certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides financing to cooperative businesses and housing throughout the United States. Shared Capital’s mission is to build a just, equitable and democratic economy by investing in cooperative enterprise with a focus on providing financing to co-ops to create wealth in low-income and economically disadvantaged communities.

Oct 23, 2020

Alumni

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Alumni

Piece & Co. is a marketplace that connects retail brands with artisans in the developing world, providing sustainable livelihoods to underserved populations and unique, socially impactful products to brand partners.

Alumni