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Livelihood Impact Fund
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Livelihood Impact Fund is a philanthropic fund that supports programs and leaders working to improve the lives of the global poor. It provides grants and impact investing capital, with a team spanning grantmaking, impact investing, and monitoring and evaluation, and offices in New York and Nairobi.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEducation
In its own wordslivelihoodsglobal povertyimpact investinggrantmakingskillscapital access
Your fit with Livelihood Impact Fund
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Or find every investor that fitsLivelihood Impact Fund lists 26 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (44%), Education (23%) and AI & Machine Learning (13%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Autodesk Foundation, Catalyst Fund and DOB Equity.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Livelihood Impact Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Livelihood Impact Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 26. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundLivelihood Impact Fund does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 62th | 26 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 78th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Autodesk Foundation | 1 |
| Catalyst Fund | 1 |
| DOB Equity | 1 |
| FMO | 1 |
| Factor Capital | 1 |
| Farvatn Venture | 1 |
| Impacc | 1 |
| KfW Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers26100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 44% | 15% |
| Education | 23% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Autodesk Foundation
Compare Livelihood Impact Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Livelihood Impact Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Round | |
| 22 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Livelihood Impact Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Livelihood Impact Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
26 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua Spark invests in solutions for the aquaculture industry, including fish farms, feed mills, and hatcheries. | Food & Agriculture | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| BRAC does social development, including ending poverty, education, and healthcare, among other activities. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CHAI is a nonprofit global health organization committed to building a world in which everyone is able to live a healthy and fulfilling life. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Delta40 invests in and builds ventures in Africa, providing capital, operational expertise, and networks to founders. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Dimagi builds digital tools for frontline work and provides professional services to governments and organizations to deploy and scale digital solutions | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Dot Glasses provides affordable eyecare solutions, including patented adjustable frames and lenses, to people around the world | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Evidence Action scales low-cost health interventions that improve the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in Africa and Asia. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EYElliance is transforming the eyeglasses market to increase access to eyeglasses in low-income countries | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fundación Capital is an international development organization and innovation laboratory that improves the economic and financial well-being of communities in poverty and vulnerability in Latin America and Africa. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| GiveDirectly sends money directly to people living in poverty | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Last Mile Health supports countries to build teams of community and frontline health workers to deliver primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Lwala unlocks the potential of communities to advance their own comprehensive well-being | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Maisha Meds builds user-driven software that helps private pharmacies and clinics deliver quality, affordable care while growing stronger businesses. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-based operating system for agriculture, tracking production and connecting harvest to buyers. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Peek Vision provides software to implement, optimise and evaluate eye health services in schools, communities and workplaces | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Raising The Village works with last-mile communities to implement solutions that raise incomes, sustain impact, and chart sustainable pathways to possibility within 24 months. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| RestoringVision is a nonprofit that provides access to vision screening and near-vision eyeglasses for people living on less than $2 a day. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company promotes and supports solutions journalism, which focuses on reporting on responses to problems. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Spark Microgrants improves the lives of people in the poorest parts of the world by providing direct cash grants and supporting village-driven development projects. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company works on economic inclusion programs and backs social entrepreneurship for livelihoods in India | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- livelihoodimpactfund.org
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 22 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 26
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