Skip to content
building-blocks-4

Structural Solutions

Working with community-driven leaders to create capital solutions for a better world

DESIGN, BUILD, FLY

Launching capital vehicles that center your communities

Since 2016, Mission Driven Finance has been mobilizing capital to advance more inclusive economic opportunity.

We started with a blended capital loan program to support small businesses and nonprofits advancing more equitable outcomes in education, health, and wealth in San Diego. From the start, we embraced doing things differently and inclusively—across fund design, outreach, underwriting, and portfolio support.

Quite quickly, organizations, accelerators, and projects around the country started seeking us out to help them design, develop, and manage funds or capital vehicles that center their communities.

These experiences as a direct private lender and an intentional asset manager inform our cross-cutting structural solutions to get capital flowing where it hasn’t been but should

The design/build/fly process
DESIGN
  • Refine fund thesis
  • Determine product-market fit
BUILD
  • Capitalizing the fund
  • Set up the fund entity
  • Determine portfolio mechanics
FLY
  • Make investments
  • Provide a blend of services over the lifecycle of the fund
handshake
Consulting Support

Providing the services you need to launch new impact capital vehicles

handshake
Catalytic Capital Partners

Joint venture with Impact Charitable to help fund managers, foundations, and investors design, build, and operate blended capital funds

handshake
Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship

National pilot to unlock U.S. Department of Treasury SSBCI dollars for entrepreneurs

handshake
MDF Capital Partners

Getting emerging funds and projects the right capital at the right time, in right relationship

DSM0898-1500-MDF-team-480x320@2x
Our strengths lie in:

  • Unwavering commitment to inclusive economic opportunity

  • Creating capital structures that align stakeholders + investors

  • Understanding + underwriting “missing middle” companies

  • Providing asset management for $5–$50+ million vehicles

  • Demystifying finance in a thoughtful, strategic, and fun way

National partners

We work with a variety of clients and partners across the country, including:

  • Capital allocators seeking a custom impact portfolio
  • Community-based accelerators and incubators that want a fund to support their program participants
NEXT STEPS

Learn more about Mission Driven Finance

Learn more about Mission Driven Finance