As part of ongoing efforts to seek out socially impactful investments which compliment existing strategies, ELFEC, along with other notable investors such as BDC Capital, Farm Credit Canada, the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good, Vancity, and Bank of America, have recently taken an investment position with Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, North America’s only Indigenous-led and owned venture capital intermediary, Raven Fund II). Raven Fund II invests in innovative, scalable Indigenous enterprises at the forefront of advancing the well-being of Indigenous Peoples
Raven provides late seed and early-stage capital to innovative, scalable, purpose driven Indigenous enterprises. Companies are screened through a unique, Indigenous impact framework that both expresses, and reflects, Indigenous ways of knowing and being.