1、Impact Startups2024xxNovember 2024Page/2 Other Impact partnersKnowledge partnersPlanet+Main partnersImpactCity The Hague is a leading European ecosystem for organisations that combine doing good and doing business.We facilitate innovative entrepreneurs in starting and scaling up their businesses.Dea

2、lroom.co is a global intelligence platform for discovering and tracking the most promising companies,technologies and ecosystems.Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact provides support mission-driven companies working towards the UN SDGs,helping them to expand their businesses and amplify th

3、eir influence through carefully crafted programs.Page/3 Strong global slowdown in impact VC funding despite the need for a massive acceleration on SDG progress.Impact startups have raised$33B in 2024 so far,a projected 28%drop from the previous year.This has been worse than the global VC capital dec

4、line of 4%during the same period.This drop is especially worrying since none of the 17 goals is on-track to be achieved by 2030.In addition,Impact startups are still worth a combined$2.4T,with private value almost two-fold that of 2021.The US and Europe are practically on par as leaders by Impact VC

5、 funding this year.The US has now reclaimed the top spot it had lost to Europe last year but Europe remains the region with the highest share of impact funding(28%vs 10%).Since 2020,only 10%of climate adaptation funding has reached low-income countries.Not only do these countries suffer from more cl

6、imate disasters while contributing to less than 1%of global emissions,but they are affected 10 x harder than wealthier ones.Climate tech dominatesClimate-related SDGs attract,by far,the vast majority of impact investment.On the other hand,startups addressing social-related UN SDGs are underfunded.Se