Fort Capital Partners
British Columbia, Canada
March 2023
Other financial services
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Canada,
United States
Fort Capital is an independent investment bank, with a focus on private capital raising and public and private market M&A. Our model purposely marries the rigour of the largest investment banks with the nimbleness and common sense of a boutique advisory firm, allowing us to provide exceptional personalized services for our clients. Focused on our people, we strive to find better work life balance in an industry known not to have one, with a focus on diversity, hybrid workplaces, mentorship, and non-traditional career opportunities in the business. While essentially industry agnostic, one area of focus has been working with entrepreneurs and companies scaling sustainable solutions, delivering capital to businesses that have been less well-served by capital providers in the Climate Technology and Energy Transition industries. We are also community driven: active with local charities and supportive of several non-profit social financial enterprises, we provide our employees with paid time off and a corporate charitable matching program so that they can make their own, more personal commitments to helping others. Working with entrepreneurs, Boards and CEO’s, we have the expertise and background to provide unique independent advice without compromise.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.2
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.
Governance 16.2
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 36.5
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 14.6
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 10.7
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 3.5
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.