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SFi August 2026 Newsletter
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Hello Impact Community,
September is shaping up to be one of our busiest months yet. Our CEO Katy Yung will be speaking at the Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum alongside Charles Li of Micro Connect. We also have a full slate of events lined up around Hong Kong Green Week (Sept 7–11), including: SFi Impact Access, our first breakfast gathering in 2H 2026, and a Blended Finance in Action workshop co-organised with Convergence and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association. In addition, we will co-host a SFi Meet the Founder fireside chat, featuring Jonathan Rose, a third-generation real estate leader who's turned green, affordable housing into a scalable model.
Our team is also proud to share the results from our SFi Family Office Impact Survey 2026, revealing a deepening conviction for impact investing amongst Family Offices and private investors.
Read on for fresh insights on impact investing, what's coming up next, and the latest developments in the impact space.
Just Released: SFi Family Office Impact Survey 2026
We're excited to share the results of this year's SFi Family Office Impact Survey, conducted with 121 family office representatives and asset owners across Asia Pacific and beyond. Our key finding: conviction is deepening and becoming more sophisticated.
A growing share of respondents are going all-in, with 27% now allocating more than half their portfolio to impact and ESG strategies, up from 17% last year, whilst a fresh wave of investors are still just dipping their toes in. Access to deal flow remains everyone's biggest challenge for a third consecutive year running, and for the first time, systems investing has overtaken opportunistic allocation as the go-to way family offices structure their impact exposure.
There's plenty more in there too, from a growing focus on Food and Agriculture, to a genuinely split verdict on whether commercial space investment belongs in an impact portfolio.
Lessons from the Founders Building Impact Ventures
In the first part of our new SFi Founder Interview Series, we asked founders from the SFi Innovation Lab to talk about what it actually takes to build an impact venture. They reflect on the personal moments that first pulled them into the problem, the harder lesson that impact alone doesn't close a sale, and the assumptions investors still get wrong about businesses like theirs – such as "cheaper is good enough" and "better tech will fix behaviour."
These are the parts of building a company that rarely make it onto a pitch deck, but are often exactly what keeps a founder going.
SFi & Hong Kong Green Week: What's Coming in September
Our events are exclusive to SFi members unless stated otherwise. If you’re not yet part of our community and would like to join our events – along with gaining access to other member benefits – get in touch to learn more about becoming an SFi member.
ADM Capital, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, announced the final close of its Asia Climate-smart Landscapes Fund at USD 48 million, a blended finance private credit vehicle backing climate-smart agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture SMEs across Indonesia.
Yulu, an India-based electric mobility startup, raised USD 93 million in Series C funding, comprising USD 63 million in equity led by GEF Capital Partners and USD 30 million in debt, to scale its EV fleet to 200,000 bikes.
Mitti Labs, a climate-tech startup scaling water-efficient rice cultivation across India, the Philippines, and Indonesia, raised USD 9.5 million in Series A funding, led by Aramco Ventures – its first India investment.
Singapore-based Beanstalk AgTech launched a new climate-smart agtech venture studio, Monsoon Ventures, seeded with SGD 1.2 million to commercialise agritech solutions for farmer livelihoods and food security across Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
GFANZ, BII, and BCG publish a new analysis distilling lessons from over 40 blended finance funds to help financial institutions structure deals, deploy catalytic capital, and mobilise private investment at scale, building on last year's first edition.
Fair Finance Asia and I-JET called on ASEAN banks to end coal financing and strengthen social safeguards for affected workers and communities.
Google signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with RWE to buy the entire output of RWE's new 155 MW Crooked Creek solar project in Oklahoma, which is set to begin construction this year and reach commercial operation in 2028 to help power Google's data centre growth.
Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based long-duration storage startup, raised USD 43 million in Series A funding led by Plural and HV with participation from Positron, to scale its iron-air battery technology, which can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours using only iron, water, and air.
Click the links below to register or find out more about upcoming events
** denotes events where SFi are speakers
7–8 September: PBC Forum: Leaping for Impact (Hong Kong)**
7–11 September: Hong Kong Green Week 2026 (Hong Kong)**
9 September: RESONATE: Climate Solutions from China (Singapore)
10–11 September: ReThink HK 2026 (Hong Kong)
8–12 September: AT ONE Impact Week (Singapore)
For members, please add events@sustainablefinance.hk to your contacts and kindly confirm your attendance via the calendar invitation for all SFi-related events.
We welcome Family Office Principals, Private Investors managing endowments or foundations, and NextGen Investors to connect with us and explore the benefits of joining the Sustainable Finance Initiative community. Become part of a network of like-minded changemakers driving impact across Asia Pacific and beyond – and gain access to member-only opportunities designed to support your sustainable investment journey.
