Impact Report: Private Equity Funds at a Glance
Amsterdam, January 30th 2025: Phenix Capital Group has today released its Impact Report: Private Equity Funds at a Glance.
The report finds that there has been a 219% growth in Private Equity funds listed on the Impact Funds Database, reaching a total of 1459 funds.
Public equity impact funds have raised €170 billion in assets under management, across five main themes, with €238 million, the median amount raised per fund. There are 126 public equity impact managers, an 8.6% growth in the number of managers with offerings in this impact asset class.
At 58%, venture-focused impact funds continue to make up the majority of the private equity universe, which is 31% of the entire impact fund database.
Since last year this sub-asset class has grown by 10.4% in terms of numbers of funds. Growth funds have grown 27.1% in number of funds to reach 633 in 2025.
Growth funds make up 43% of the private equity impact universe and 23% of the entire impact funds universe.
The top three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) favoured by private equity impact investment managers continued to be: SDG3: Good Health & Wellbeing; SDG2: Zero Hunger; and SDG9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.
Good Health & Wellbeing (SDG3) continues to top the list of SDGs preferred by the private equity impact investing funds. In terms of geography, it is interesting to note that the majority of the funds (430) are European, with 341 funds from North America.
Next to the insights and analytics provided by Phenix Capital's Impact Fund Database, the report also features a deep dive into the geography of Private Equity.
Click here to download the report.
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About Phenix Capital Group
Phenix Capital Group has been delivering impact solutions globally since 2012 to enable institutional investors to make financial-first impact investments. The company has been dedicated to building a solid knowledge base of the impact investing industry, educating asset owners and asset manager with their impact investing intelligence.
About Impact Funda Database
Phenix Capital’s Impact Database provides investors with access to and intelligence on the impact fund market opportunities available to them. Three main variables used to construct, monitor and update the dataset: funds considered have an impact proposition; institutional scale; and target market-rate returns. Impact Database now includes detailed overview of more than 2,500+ impact funds.