Axios Impact Investments

Axios Impact Investments Axios is a revolutionary rural financing company enabling social enterprises to extend customer financing,increase their impact and alleviate poverty.

Axios Impact Investments is a financial services company providing lease to purchase agreements to customers for income-producing assets through partner organizations. Securing customer financing poses a significant hurdle for worthy organizations trying to scale their impact as facilitating loans and managing financial products typically falls outside of their scope of competency, and microfinanc

e remains limited in its reach, especially among rural borrowers. Furthermore, investors are showing increased interest in investment opportunities that offer modest or below-market returns, but provide important social impact. This space – often referred to as Impact Investing – is a growing industry, but deal flow continues to challenge individual investors and financial managers who seek worthy and fitting investment opportunities. Axios Impact Investments serves as the catalyst between these impact investors and development organizations, facilitating mid-sized investments ($1,000 to $50,000) to worthy borrowers for modest returns (2-10%).

Axios is in Peru! A great big hello from the heart of the Incan empire!While it may have been a while since you’ve heard...
02/14/2017

Axios is in Peru!
A great big hello from the heart of the Incan empire!

While it may have been a while since you’ve heard from us, we are extremely excited to announce that Axios is back in the field – And, we’re in Cusco, Peru this time!

Aaron and Abby arrived in early February and are settling into life here as we prepare to launch Axios in Peru.

Our main focus initially will be to reach out to organizations and companies working with rural farmers in Peru to determine their needs surrounding financing programs.

In the next couple weeks, we will be releasing our Financing Toolkit – More details on that soon!

If you have any connections in Peru that you think Axios should know about, please send us a message!

Thanks for continuing to join us on this journey – We look forward to sharing our progress with you!

Our CEO, Aaron Sebesta, is currently attending SOCAP, a conference that, among other things, focuses on impact investing...
10/07/2015

Our CEO, Aaron Sebesta, is currently attending SOCAP, a conference that, among other things, focuses on impact investing. Read our latest post by Eric Byington about the topic and what impact investing could look like in the near future. http://axiosimpact.com/resources/axios-blog/

September 29, 2015 Willing and Able One of the biggest hurdles in implementing a financing program is determining who to lend to and leads to the all-important question: How can you reliably determine who will pay you back? To answer this, it is important to understand the factors that can affect re…

One of the core components of our business is our stacked capital model. It basically turns the age old investing princi...
02/25/2015

One of the core components of our business is our stacked capital model. It basically turns the age old investing principle “High-risk, high-return” on its head. This article explains how “high-risk, low-return” may actually be the sweet spot for impact investing. Do you agree? http://www.forbes.com/sites/willyfoote/2014/09/10/three-lessons-on-impact-investing-reflections-from-batman-and-robin

After our panel last week at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference in San Francisco, a colleague tweeted a photoshopped image of me and Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, as Batman and Robin, respectively. While the order should have been reversed (me Robin, he Batman) – as A…

Excited to announce that Axios was awarded $5,000 at the AgEI competition today! We're planning to use the funds to rese...
01/07/2015

Excited to announce that Axios was awarded $5,000 at the AgEI competition today! We're planning to use the funds to research various agricultural technologies that we can potentially finance. Thanks to AgEI and Iowa State University for the well-organized competition day!

Aaron and Eric are currently at Iowa State University presenting the Axios model at a Business plan competition hosted b...
01/06/2015

Aaron and Eric are currently at Iowa State University presenting the Axios model at a Business plan competition hosted by the Agriculture Entrepreneurship Initiative. Good luck!

01/01/2015

Happy 2015! It’s a New Year and we are full of new things! We are excited to announce that Growing Capital is now Axios Impact Investments! We are busy finalizing plans for our pilot this Spring and preparing for business plan competitions. Keep an eye on this page for updates as we move forward!

A specially engineered bag at Purdue University by their Department of Entomology helps store a variety of major crops f...
10/04/2014

A specially engineered bag at Purdue University by their Department of Entomology helps store a variety of major crops for more than one year after harvest without additional chemicals. This has the potential of increasing farmers' incomes through higher produce prices. Check it out:

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q2/purdue-gets-funding-for-commercializing-pics-bags-in-africa.html

Purdue University is receiving a $10 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a program that will put the crop-saving PICS bags into the hands of more farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa countries to improve their food security and income.

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