Portfolio for Impact and Innovation
DFC’s PI2 initiative aims to bridge the financing gap for early-stage social enterprises with innovative solutions to challenges facing the developing world.
Small, early-stage businesses are forging some of the most creative and effective solutions to challenges facing the developing world today, but they often face hurdles accessing the financing needed to scale their operations.
DFC’s Portfolio for Impact and Innovation (PI2) initiative is investing up to $10 million in promising early-stage businesses which otherwise struggle to access financing due to their relative size, short track record, and novel approaches.
The initiative leverages DFC’s enhanced tools, resources, and flexibility to deliver life changing goods and services to those most in need.
Investment Stories
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![Two Indian schoolgirls looking at their schoolwork](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2022-10/Investment%20Story%20Banner_SootheHealthcare.png?itok=Nb6-SVRM)
![Two Jibu employees smiling in front of a van](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2022-08/Investment%20Story%20Banner_jibu.png?itok=_BDYSU72)
![Indian man on a video call with a doctor](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2022-05/Investment%20Story%20Banner_Portea.png?itok=Fup2omxg)
![Woman smiling in store](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2022-03/Investment%20Story%20Banner_NEF.png?itok=qqG3CzTr)
![Interior view of a dialysis center](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2021-12/AHN%20Banner.png?itok=w9p8_zn3)
![Ampersand motorcycles](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2021-11/Ampersand%20Banner.png?itok=3uUlhMFd)
![Indian dairy farmers processing milk](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2021-03/MM_banner.png?itok=jyF80ChC)
![photo, Indian children in classroom smile with raised hands and waving](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2020-07/Varthana_education_1_1440x480.jpg?itok=lRHfuPAC)
![kasha delivery driver on motor bike](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2021-02/Kasha%20banner.png?itok=uYDtF2jD)
![photo, Indian woman standing in front of building and smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2020-07/DFC_Aviom_1440x480.jpg?itok=TL0fKU_h)
![Preventing blindness in Cameroon](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2020-03/iStock-1157560909_womaneyeexam15x10.jpg?itok=lYJFfKdR)
![Supporting a female entrepreneur in Mongolia](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2020-02/Goyol_Cashmere_sewing_2.jpg?itok=GVaxAShB)
![Increasing food supply in India by building a better value chain](/sites/default/files/styles/dfc_investment_story_homepage_700px_x_470px_/public/2020-01/Way_Cool_1.jpg?itok=MKF9vVFo)