Finance in motion
green scaler fund
Manager Overview
Finance in Motion (FiM) is a world-leading independent Impact asset manager, currently managing ~€3B across nine funds, all of which are Article 9 compliant. FiM has a mandate to address two key global challenges: climate change and related environmental threats to humankind, and the global economy’s transition towards a green economy.
Robust/institutional sustainability monitoring & reporting architecture: enables data collection, analysis and reporting on the ESG management performance of each partner firm and underlying portfolio companies on ‘look-through’ basis.
Track record: over 13 years experience in origination and generation of new impact assets across asset classes and geographies (including the successful launch, management and funding of PE Funds), 890+ impact investments totalling ~€6.4B, raised and mobilized €2B+ in outside capital, client base of 168 partner institutions across 38 countries.
250+ staff members of 50+ nationalities in 16 regional offices across Western Europe (HQ in Frankfurt), Southeast and Eastern Europe, MENA, LATAM & Caribbean.
Strategy Overview
FiM is looking to build on its own successful track record and accumulated knowledge, with the launch of its Green Scaler Fund, and is now dedicated to scaling the next generation of green impact asset managers through its own investments and by attracting meaningful outside capital into its investee funds, and ultimately the green tech space.
FiM’s strategy for the GSF is to invest €15m-€20m in 8-10 green innovation impact funds globally, managed by the best-in-class emerging impact managers. The fund will identify opportunities across the green economy within the target themes of the EU Taxonomy: climate change mitigation, climate change adaption, transition to a circular economy, pollution prevention and control, the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem. Fund LPs will receive impact reports based on EU Taxonomy and UN SDGs.
The GSF supports its investee funds with funding and fund set up. FiM will look to be an anchor/significant investor, support fundraising efforts thought its stablished investor network, and assist with warehousing and co-investments. FiM will utilise its deep Impact investing experience to help investee funds overcome regulatory barriers through hands-on support, facilitating the institutionalisation of investment process and high-level Impact monitoring and reporting. The GSF is further supported with a fund builder facility sponsored with a $2m grant from Luxembourg Ministry of Finance (with zero cost to LPs) to help navigate fund managers through regulatory red tape and other barriers to entry.
Fund terms
| FUND | Finance in Motion, Green Scaler Fund |
| ASSET CLASS | Private Equity / Impact |
| GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS | 68% developed markets, 18% emerging markets, 13% frontier markets |
| TARGET FUND SIZE | €250m |
| MANAGEMENT FEE | 1.5% |
| CARRIED INTEREST | zero |
| INVESTMENT PERIOD | 3 years |
| TOTAL LIFE OF FUND | 12 years |