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Impact America Fund

Oakland, California · Invests in US · Website

SeedSeries ASeries BConsumer Apps & SocialB2B SaaSFintechHealthcare & BiotechInsuranceEducationHealthcare & Digital HealthFintech & PaymentsEnterprise SoftwareEdTechLogistics & Supply ChainClimate & Clean EnergyManufacturing & Industrial

Thesis

Tech-enabled businesses built for and by people in marginalized communities create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity. Traditional VCs miss billion-dollar markets in overlooked communities.

Likely not a fit for

Extractive models, outsider-designed products, businesses without community involvement in design, pure hardware plays

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Typical decision
~1 month
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$177M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

7 contacts on file

KC

KESHA CASH

General PartnerFounder & General Partner · Primary contact

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k•••@im•••.com

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David G.

PartnerPartner

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d•••@im•••.com

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FG

Funmi Garrick

Platform & OpsFinance and Operations

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DC

David Clark Guillermo

InvestorInvestments

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BH

Brittany Henry

InvestorInvestments

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Y(

Yusill (Yui) Scribner

InvestorInvestments & Strategy

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KW

Kaiton Williams

InvestorInvestments & Cultural Technologist

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Portfolio

Care AcademyHealthcare Digital

Care Academy is an online caregiver training platform that provides comprehensive training solutions for home care, home health, senior living, and hospice sectors. The platform offers various training programs, including caregiver training, specialized certifications, and administrative training, all aimed at ensuring compliance and improving care quality.

SoloFundsFintech Payments

SoLo Funds is a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects borrowers directly with community lenders, allowing individuals to access small-dollar loans without traditional financial institutions. The platform emphasizes transparency, community support, and optional fees.

Twentyeight HealthHealthcare Digital

Twentyeight Health is a women's telehealth company that provides accessible sexual and reproductive health services, including birth control, emergency contraception, and abortion pills.

Camino FinancialFintech Payments

Camino Financial is a data-driven financial technology platform pioneering affordable credit and financial products for U.S. Latinx businesses. The company uses proprietary artificial intelligence software to aggregate data and build machine learning models to drastically reduce financing costs for thin-file, cash-based microenterprises.

ConnXusEnterprise Software

ConnXus is a provider of cloud-based solutions for supplier management, offering services such as supplier risk management, contract management, virtual benchmarking, spend reporting, sourcing, and supplier relationship management.

Driver's Seat Cooperative
EsusuFintech Payments

Esusu is a financial technology company focused on building credit and financial inclusion for renters, allowing them to report their rent payments to credit bureaus and access various financial tools.

FlockjayEnterprise Software

Flockjay is a modern, unified Learning and Content Management System for all your sales enablement needs, leveraging generative AI to manage sales teams’ content, learning, deal insights, coaching, and more.

Guardians CollectiveEdtech

Educator-led parenting circles providing support and guidance for families through an app that connects parents with early childhood educators and other families.

MayvennEcommerce Marketplaces

Mayvenn is a company that specializes in providing high-quality beauty products, particularly 100% virgin human hair, through an online marketplace. They focus on empowering beauty professionals and ensuring customer satisfaction with their products and services.

MindRightHealthcare Digital

MindRight Health provides personalized emotional support and trauma-informed mental health coaching through text messaging. The company delivers high-impact, nonclinical care, making mental health support accessible without the traditional barriers of apps or waitlists. Its approach focuses on human connection and culturally responsive methods to address stress and trauma effectively.

NamecoachEnterprise Software

Namecoach aims to solve the common problem of name mispronunciation and gender pronoun communication in as many critical settings as possible by providing audio name pronunciations embedded online to easily learn and remember how to say them correctly.

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Impact America Fund Research Investment Thesis Impact America Fund (IAF) invests in tech-enabled businesses built for and by people in marginalized communities, particularly focusing on companies that create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity. Founded and led by Kesha Cash, the fund believes that traditional venture capital chronically undervalues business opportunities in low- and modera

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