Save the Children Impact Investments champions start-ups that are radically transforming how we solve issues facing millions of the world’s most vulnerable children. We also work with ecosystem partners and investors who support our mission to ensure every child receives the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
We are part of a global movement and have crowded in private sector investment to help achieve measurable impact and the sustainable development goals. Our first fund, an Australia-based commercial fund, was established in 2020.
Our Fund provides loans and equity investments to help startups and social enterprises grow. We then back these mission-aligned enterprises with everything we’ve got, from field expertise to stakeholder relationships across our global footprint of 118 countries. We will do our utmost to help our portfolio companies to improve the lives of underserved children and families.
We are most excited about those solutions which we can enable with the patient capital to see through their impact to scale and generate competitive financial returns for our investors. Through supporting our innovators and creating bridges for them to formerly inaccessible opportunities, our platform aims to be rocket fuel for these organisations.
Save the Children helped pioneer the concept of children’s rights, and we believe this innovation needs more. As the world’s leading independent organisation for children, we are and have always been at the forefront of saving children’s lives when disasters strike, and creating lasting change for children and their families through our long-term education, health, child protection, livelihoods and climate change adaptation projects.
Children deserve every chance to take on the world. They deserve an education, a healthy start in life and the chance to go further than they ever dreamed possible. Children have always been the heroes of our story, and now we’re finding more heroes to help.
The next 100 years starts with what we do together in the next 10.
Drawing on a diversity of backgrounds, our investment team brings a wealth of experience and skills to help our founders. With support from Save the Children Global Ventures (SCGV), our coverage and expertise spans the world.
Paul leads Save the Children Global Ventures, the in-house team at Save the Children responsible for taking innovative finance and new technologies to scale.
For nine years, Paul served as CEO of Save the Children Australia. He led the creation of and is a founding director of Save the Children Australia’s impact investment fund.
Julianne first joined the Save the Children Australia in May 2021 as Legal Counsel, Impact Investment Fund and Social Enterprises. In 2022 she moved into the role as Head of Impact Investing.
Julianne has more than 20 years’ legal and commercial experience, including advising on new commercial ventures, investment opportunities, acquisitions and divestments. Julianne spent 15+ years at Macquarie Group where she led a team as General Counsel and Global Head of Legal & Tax for Corporate Asset Finance. She was General Counsel at The Fred Hollows Foundation prior to joining Save the Children Australia.
Andy is the Impact Investing Manager for Save the Children Impact Investments, which he joined in May 2022. He is a certified Responsible Investment professional with a idiosyncratic work history, including education, business development, and consulting across Asia, Europe, and the US. Prior to this role, he worked at the Harvard Kennedy School managing a program for UHNW family offices, and began his career at KPMG.
Amanda was responsible for leading setup and strategy for several high-profile startups including Malala Fund and The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a $50 million investment portfolio focused on sustainable economic development following Haiti’s 2010 earthquake.
Most recently Preeth served as a sell-side transaction advisory executive at Palladium Impact Capital, where he led client engagements across capital raising, transaction and fund structuring and strategy development and advised entrepreneurs, fund managers and non-profits. Preeth also co-established Lok Capital, a leading Indian fund manager.
Leonardo has extensive private equity, impact investing, impact measurement & management expertise gathered at investment banks including UBS and ABN AMRO and principal investment groups including Standard Bank. Leonardo has worked across multiple sectors and geographies, including in Europe, UK, and the US.
Eve brings diverse private sector, government and INGO experience, most recently as an investment manager with World Resources Institute, where she aided viability and investment flows into public-private partnerships and helped establish a Climate Action Investment Fund. Eve has particular expertise identifying and executing African based investment opportunities.
Our investment team is led by a seasoned Investment Committee and Board.