Unmarkets partners with well-established, privately-owned businesses to set up new JV’s in emerging markets.The JV’s are real-economy, industrial-scale businesses that target new markets and leverage the partner’s assets and capabilities.The new businesses are built to be cashflow positive, offer commercial returns and are optimised for impact.We fund them through our holding company, which blends concessional donor money with commercial capital from family offices. For our donor partners: we ensure their investments leverage commercial capital into businesses built to drive their impact priorities. For our commercial investors: we offer a market return, strong social impact and the opportunity to invest into JV’s co-owned by successful businesspeople with decades of experience.

TIL Ventures co-created impact ventures with multi-national corporations. A team of 12 operated globally and TIL’s work included: A 10-year partnership with Barclays - working with their $50m Social Innovation Facility creating financial inclusion ventures in UK, US, India and Africa – including the establishment of Barclays’ global impact investing business. Harvard Business Review article here: https://tilventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HBR-MS-and-RJT.pdf A multi-year incubator with Disney – resulting in new product-lines across Europe, Nordics and South Africa e.g. books and toys tailored for dyslexic children - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disney-Spécial-dyslexie-Reine-neiges/dp/2017181722Pearson’s Tomorrow’s Markets Incubator – a multi-year incubator creating access-to-education ventures globally, with specific focus on emerging markets (India, Lat Am and China). Said Business School case study here: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-06/pearson_and_til_ventures_-_mutuality_case_study_13.10.17.pdfA one-year incubator for BMW UK and one-off ventures for Mars (India) and P&G (South Africa)TIL also worked for several years with IFC’s Lighting Global Programme and Shell Foundation to support the off-grid solar sectors’ drive for profitability.

Exec-ed company working with organisations to develop strategic-thinking and leadership capability. Clients included Cognizant Technology Solutions, Reckitt Benckiser, JCB & The Estee Lauder Group.

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