Impact Leaders - Sustainable & Impact Investment and Performance with Purpose

37: Florian Kemmerich of Bamboo Capital Partners: Leveraging Capital As A Force For Good

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Florian Kemmerich is Managing Partner of Bamboo Capital Partners, Founder of Ryan-Kay and Board Member of numerous organisations. 

Florian leverages his extensive background on start-ups, fundraising, and transactions in healthcare and life science to invest in, build, and (re-)position organisations in the competitive global marketplace.

In particular, his passion is around impact investment and effective personal development methodologies to create high-performance teams, whereby many members have become successful executives and entrepreneurs themselves. In addition, Florian founded a medical education foundation in Mexico while supporting many NGOs, patient advocacy groups, and extramural surgery programs in Central-America’s most remote locations. As an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization he is Chair of the Impact Networks Council.

Florian previously held C-level positions at Parter Capital, Olympus, SBi (Stryker), and B|Braun. 

Highlights:
  • Jean-Philippe de Schrevel founding Blue Orchard and pioneering microfinance
  • Bamboo Capital funds include:
    • Oasis Fund - high risk first generation energy access fund - open ended
    • BEAM - closed Off grid energy in Sub-saharan Africa and Asia
    • World Bank mandate energy access solutions in Haiti and Madagascar
    • “As we move from baby boomers to millennials, the quest for purpose is a big theme.”
    • “Big asset managers are doing sustainability, further ESG and impact investing. This shouldn’t be just storytelling, we make sure that the money resolves issues around the world.”
    • SDG500, the impact investing partnership platform:
      • 6 Impact Funds
      • Targeting $500m
      • Missing middle finance - beyond microfinance and below where banks would lend, areas with no angel investors. 
      • First loss catalytic capital from non-profit. 
      • Adjust risk and reward. 
      • Clear theory of change on the ground
      • There were initial challenge to raise funds because of perceived risk
      • It is important to be scaling based on the need of the ground vs scaling based on the need of investors
      • Exit scenarios can come in the form of selling back to the principal, or have the industrty coming in and following on or other funds coming in and following
      • Impact measurement - There is a balance between investing in impact measurement system and keeping it simple
      • Investors need to embrace all the SDG not just their chosen SDG, and invest in the real needs on the ground.
      • Don’t just teach people how to fish, but invest in their fishing companies.

        • Time Stamp:
        [03:20] What is impact investing?
        [04:50] What does Bamboo Capital do?
        [07:45] Jean-Philippe de Schrevel pioneering impact investing with microfinance
        [13:40] SDG500, impact investing platform
        [21:00] What is the target audience?
        [25:00] What it means to have catalytic first loss 
        [28:00] How Bamboo Capital differs from other private equity funds
        [30:00] Examples of investees - BBOXX
        [34:30] Lessons learned on measuring impact
        [40:00] Final advice

        Useful links:
        Florian Kemmerich Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/floriankemmerich/
        Jean-Philippe de Schrevel https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-de-schrevel
        BlueOrchard https://www.blueorchard.com/
        BlueOrchard, CEO - Patrick Scheurle -  Impact Leaders Episode #25https://bit.ly/ILBOPS 
        Bamboo Capital Investees http://www.bamboocp.com/investees/
        BBOXX https://www.bboxx.com/
        Private Equity Impact Funds - recent fundraising closes - Unquote report

        SDG500 webinar: Importance of SME Financing to COVID-19 Response and Recovery Efforts - YourTube replay
        UNCDF news: Government of Cote d'Ivoire Commits EUR 5 Million to SDG 500
        SDG500 Webinar - the impact investing partnership platform - takeaways :
        • SDG 500 is a “historic First”
        • 6 Impact Funds
        • 30 African States
        • 12 years life
        • 14 of 17 SDGs
        • Targeting $500m
        • First ABS SDG related for Emerging Markets
        • 3 different tranches 
        • Ticket sizes as low as $250k
        • Public funds multiply x 2.5

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