Structural Solutions
Working with community-driven leaders to create capital solutions for a better world
Design, Build, Fly
Launching capital vehicles that center your communities
Since 2016, Mission Driven Finance has been mobilizing capital to advance more inclusive economic opportunity.
We started with a blended capital loan program to support small businesses and nonprofits advancing more equitable outcomes in education, health, and wealth in San Diego. From the start, we embraced doing things differently and inclusively—across fund design, outreach, underwriting, and portfolio support.
Quite quickly, organizations, accelerators, and projects around the country started seeking us out to help them design, develop, and manage funds or capital vehicles that center their communities.
These experiences as a direct private lender and an intentional asset manager inform our cross-cutting structural solutions to get capital flowing where it hasn’t been but should.
The design/build/fly process
Design
- Refine fund thesis
- Determine product-market fit
Build
- Capitalizing the fund
- Set up the fund entity
- Determine portfolio mechanics
Fly
- Make investments
- Provide a blend of services over the lifecycle of the fund
What do we mean by structural solutions?
Consulting Support
Charitable Capital
Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Capital Partners
Getting emerging funds and projects the right capital at the right time, in right relationship
Our strengths lie in:
Unwavering commitment to inclusive economic opportunity
Creating capital structures that align stakeholders + investors
Understanding + underwriting “missing middle” companies
Providing asset management for $5–$50+ million vehicles
Demystifying finance in a thoughtful, strategic, and fun way
National partners
We work with a variety of clients and partners across the country, including:
- Capital allocators seeking a custom impact portfolio
- Community-based accelerators and incubators that want a fund to support their program participants
Next Steps
Learn more about Mission Driven Finance
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