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Pioneer Facility: Scale your climate enterprise with debt finance
Funding is available for enterprises that can demonstrate social and environmental benefits. Available to enterprises in Indonesia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Phillipines, Myanmar and Laos PDR
$50,000 - $500,000
Flexible Debt Financing
No Collateral
Categories that we fund
Clean Energy
We drive climate funding to clean energy projects, including solar energy for smallholder farmers and biogas enterprises.
Clean Water
We finance clean water projects, such as water filters and piped water solutions that have positive environmental and health benefits.
Waste Management
Our funding supports companies who offer innovative solutions including organic waste management and plastic recycling.
Sustainable Agriculture
We strive to finance companies working in sustainable agriculture, including food processing and bio-fertilizer.
Eligibility criteria
Climate focused social enterprise
Climate enterprises producing and distributing sustainable solutions in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh with proven social and environmental impacts
Growth stage
Enterprises must be 2+ years operational and ready to scale
Reach women & underserved communities
Benefit low-income, underserved communities. We allocate 40% of funding to women led / women-benefitting intiatives.
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Pioneer Facility impacts
About Pioneer Facility
Nexus for Development is the fund manager for the Pioneer Facility, a developing economy impact investment fund that provides short to medium term debt capital to private growth-stage enterprises.
We support initiatives in Southeast Asia that focus on energy, water, waste management and agriculture solutions that benefit low-income, underserved communities. The Pioneer Facility is committed to funding women led businesses and those that drive both environmental and social impacts.
