Goparity raises 2M€ seed round from VC and its own community
The goal is to bring new features to the platform while expanding in Europe and North America
On January 16th, we announced a a 2 million euros investment round, led by MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE) together with Schneider Electric Energy Access (SEEA) and an equity crowdfunding campaign. Goparity was founded in 2017, and we will use this round to boost our growth and international expansion, as well as to develop new financial features, keeping the focus on sustainability.
Under the mission of empowering people and companies to actively contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, through impact investments, we have raised more than 600 thousand euros from investors within our platform’s users, most of which aged 18 to 40 (69%) and men (70%), but with women ranking 4 out of the top 10 investors, including the highest individual investor.
The funds raised will be used to foster geographical expansion in Europe and America, namely in Spain and Canada. Additionally, we plan to hire up to 15 people in the coming years.
As much investment raised in 2022 as in the overall company’s history
Goparity has observed as much investment through our platform in 2022 as since we started operating.
“We are very pleased with this achievement, at a time when raising capital has been difficult for so many companies all over the world. With this round, we want to take Goparity to the next level: bringing impact finance to our users’ daily lives so that they can, in every investment, account, or transaction be sure that their money is being used in line with their values.”
“We deeply believe a company like ours, focused on collective investments for environmental and social impact will greatly benefit from being partly owned by the community it serves. Therefore, in addition to institutional investors, we decided to lead by example and give our community the opportunity to be shareholders of the company too.”
Nuno Brito Jorge, Founder and CEO of Goparity
“Goparity sits at the forefront of consumer preferences towards allocating their financial resources, savings and plans into impactful financial products, which is demonstrated by the growth of Goparity’s impact and usage over the past year. This is coupled with an outstanding team whose ethos and values are as strong as their capacity to execute at extreme levels of efficiency”.
António Miguel, MSM
“Goparity provides an alternative and easily accessible way for impact companies to finance their sustainable projects by democratizing impact investment. SEEA is particularly sensitive to the financing of sustainable energy and social economy initiatives as well as to Goparity’s contribution to European projects dedicated to energy justice and to tackle energy poverty.”
Marta Carneiro Enes, SEEA
Democratizing access to sustainable finance
Goparity’s main mission is to democratize access to sustainable finance, by connecting companies and individuals who want to invest sustainably with projects with a positive impact on people and the planet. With more than 30.000 users from over 70 countries, in 2022, we doubled our turnover, and had about €10.4M invested through the platform.
The projects funded have already positively impacted and supported almost 200.000 people, created almost 7.000 jobs, and help prevent the emission of 23.800 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.
