OUR MISSION...
To empower SMEs worldwide to achieve sustainable success and amplify their social impact through targeted partnerships, strategic acquisitions, and solutions that prioritize environmental stewardship, social equity, gender equality, and governance excellence.
OUR VISION...
To shape a future where business success is measured by positive environmental and social impact, alongside sustainable financial performance.
What's our pledge at Echo Eight Global?
Our pledge is to bridge the gap between ESG investors and transformative SME's that prioritise environmental, social and governance impact. At Echo Eight Global, we're building a portfolio of businesses with projects that don't just succeed - they create a better world. With every acquisition and partnership, we commit to making growth synonymous with responsibility.
Our portfolio of ESG opportunities consists of over 30 projects in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and Africa and address a range of thematic areas including green energy (solar, hydrogen, biomass), healthcare, sustainable agriculture.
Echo Eight Global: ESG Strategy
ESG Projects of Particular Interest...
● Renewable energy (such as sunlight, wind, water, biomass, and geothermal heat)
● Innovative technology that supports water treatment, desalenation, waste
management, heat-transfer, effluent treatment (discharged from industrial
processes, sewage, or other sources, to remove harmful contaminants)
● Technology and energy storage solutions enabling or facilitating net-energy buildings and housing
● Alternatives to cement and other building/construction material traditionally known
to be part of high-polluting industries
● Sustainable agriculture, including solutions that address water scarcity, improved
production, use of organic products
● Sustainable tourism opportunities including those which propose eco-friendly
accommodation, tours with low CO2 footprints, economic-development to
vulnerable or remote communities
● Solutions centred around improved access to basic services, including healthcare
and education, especially for persons with disabilities or vulnerable populations
● Women-led SMEs promoting ethical sourcing, sustainability, and contributing to a
circular economy
● ESG Assessment, reporting, and impact/sustainability evaluation services
Geography.
Scope: Global, prioritizing companies based on social impact and financial returns, rather than geography.
Particular interest in: Companies in emerging markets or serving/well positioned to serve emerging markets.
Financials.
Preferences:
- AR: Minimum 1M, preference over 5M in annual revenue.
- Healthy profit margins, minimum over 15%.
- Preference of larger capital raise ticket sizes (over 10M).
Expertise.
- Founded over 5 years ago, the longer the track record, the better.
- Strong management & operational teams, capacity to scale.
- Promising pipeline, market positioning for growth opportunities.
- Projects that facilitate South-South Cooperation, circular economy, ethical sourcing, empowerment of local communities.
Get in touch
Are you an SME owner seeking to expand into markets, sell your company, or raise capital for a particular project?
Are you a VC or ESG fund manager seeking to invest in promising new opportunities?
Contact one of the Echo Eight Global Team...
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