Purpose Capital
Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand
July 2025
Equity investing - Developed Markets
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
New Zealand
As one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most experienced impact investment fund managers, Purpose Capital Limited drives positive social and environmental outcomes through the deployment of impactful investment. In so doing, Purpose Capital is demonstrating a new way to make investment work so that impact investing is mainstreamed and positive outcomes maximised. Purpose Capital was founded on the principle that we can effect positive change through well-run commercial investments that deliver both positive impact and financial return. Through demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach, we aim to increase the amount of capital invested in impact investments by asset and fund managers, as well as private and philanthropic wealth. By acting as lead investor in various investment opportunities, we provide confidence to third-party investors to invest alongside us in impactful companies and projects. We focus on the following impact objectives: 1. Sustainable, Secure, Affordable housing 2. Environmental Regeneration 3. Mitigating Climate Change 4. Social Equity
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 23.9
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 10.1
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 10.2
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 31.6
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.