Impact
Jobs appear when a company wins more business and needs more hands. We count them company by company, every year, and we publish what we find alongside the ESG and environmental data.
Small and medium companies supply 60 percent of the jobs in high-income countries. In low-income countries they supply only 30 percent.
Those 30 points are companies waiting to be built. Businesses that should already be operating at scale, in markets that can carry them, held back because nobody financed the middle.
That growth has to be funded by someone. We intend it to be us, and we intend to be paid for it.
See the companies
How we measure
We measure the result for two reasons. Our partners ask for the numbers. And the numbers show us whether the business is working. A company that adds staff is usually a company that is selling more.
We count the people on the payroll, and the farms and suppliers that sell into the company.
Governance structure, policies, and the evidence that the policies are followed. Our Venture Building team builds it.
We give priority to young entrepreneurs and to women who own businesses, and we report on that split.
Water, energy and land use in the companies we fund. Solar pumping at Sakami is one example.