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Frontier Investments Group

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ACCION International’s Frontier Investments Group is a double bottom line, venture equity fund focused on catalyzing a new approach to microfinance and global impact investing.

Frontier's mandate is to go beyond where microfinance is today and invest in disruptive business models – technologies, products and services that will radically enhance the efficiency, reach and scope of products and services for the unbanked.

Frontier Investments’ vision is to bridge the gap between purely philanthropic and for-profit investing. By drawing on best practices in both arenas, Frontier Investments works to generate balanced financial returns and high-impact social gains. To accomplish this vision, Frontier Investments leverages ACCION International’s five decades of experience in emerging markets – including feet-on-the-ground and institutional relationships in four continents and a deep bench of operational and product specialists working in emerging market enterprises that serve the poor. Frontier Investments draws on this sector- and market-specific domain expertise as well as its financial resources to catalyze the growth of its portfolio companies.

To see a list of Frontier Investment Group members' upcoming presentations, visit ACCION's Conferences & Events Calendar.

 

Recent News and Updates

9/7/2011

Press Release: LeapFrog Invests USD 15M in Shriram in a Strategic Partnership to Serve 10 Million People in India; Additional media coverage in The Economist and the Wall Street Journal

3/17/2011

Press Release: Vindhya e-Infomedia raises private equity capital from ACCION and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

3/10/2011

Announcement: ACCION’s Frontier Investment Group and Elevar Equity recognized at the Washington Business Journal "Venture Capital Awards" for 2010 investment in GTV GloboKasNet LLC

2/17/2011   

Announcement: Monica Brand to teach a course on "Impact Investing: Financial Inclusion and Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid" at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

9/7/2010

Press Release: ACCION and Elevar Equity Invest in GloboKasNet

3/29/2010

 

Press Release: LeapFrog Poised to Invest $112 Million in Insurance and Microfinance Companies, After Historic Commitments to the Fund by IFC, KfW, Flagstone and Soros

2/24/2010

Press Release: MicroBilt Relaunches the PRBC® Report with FICO® Expansion® Score Enhanced with Public Record, Bank Account and Other Predictive Data