LendForGood wins Market Builder of the Year at the Australian Impact Investment Awards
To our delight, last week LendForGood — our new crowd-lending platform for impact enterprises — won the Market Builder award at the Australian Impact Investment Awards!
This award means a lot to us because building a new kind of market for impact investment, one that everyone is invited and empowered to be part of, is the LendForGood mission.
This award is meaningful validation that the sector sees the need for a platform which democratizes impact investment to support the growth of the impact business movement.
Thank you to Social Impact Hub, Impact Investment Summit and Department of Social Services for organising and funding the awards. You can read the full write-up of the night here. Congratulations to all the winners!
Building new markets is hard work, and impossible without great partners and supporters.
We couldn’t have got here without the early backing of Marque Lawyers, Sefa (Social Enterprise Finance Australia), June Canavan Foundation, Karrikin Foundation, English Family Foundation and The Snow Foundation. Thank you all so much for your courage and leadership.
And we never would have even started without the best joint venture partner a social enterprise could ever wish for in Red Hat Impact and their leadership team of Cameron Neil, Paul Howorth and David Carbines, joined by the brilliant Greg Peel, who has contributed so many insights thanks to his unique experience in impact banking.
And, of course, the whole StartSomeGood team who have supported this but especially our Co-founder and technical leader Renata van Diest.
None of this would mean anything without our wonderful lenders, who are putting their money where their values are and have so far contributed $1M to help 11 great impact enterprises grow.
If you are interested in our mission to democratize impact investment and want to get involved, get in touch! We are partnership-driven and need more of everything — investors, intermediaries and lenders — to achieve our mission.
This is only the beginning.
Onwards!
