What is Spring?
Spring is a platform dedicated to fostering innovation and positive change by connecting founders and investors. It provides educational programs, resources, and community support to help impact ventures scale while maintaining their values. The organization focuses on creating a sustainable, healthy, and equitable world through its various initiatives.
Spring offers programs like Scale Ready for founders seeking investment and growth support, and events like the Blended Finance Summit for investors. It also manages Spring Impact Capital, a venture capital fund investing in planetary and human health innovations. As a Certified B Corp, Spring aligns with the UN Global Goals and has catalyzed over $81 million in impact investment to date.
Features
- Scale Ready Program: Custom support for Canadian founders to prepare for fundraising and company growth
- Invest Together in Women-Led Impact 2026: Gender-smart investment prize for impact ventures
- Foundations in Gender Lens Investing: Conversation series on how gender lens investing strengthens portfolios and creates impact
- Blended Finance Summit 2026: Annual event for purpose-driven capital providers to advance blended finance applications
- Spring Impact Capital: Venture capital fund investing in innovation for planetary and human health
Use Cases
- Founders seeking investment and scaling support for impact ventures
- Investors looking to align capital with positive social and environmental outcomes
- Organizations wanting to participate in gender lens investing education
- Impact entrepreneurs needing resources to grow their businesses sustainably
- Capital providers interested in blended finance strategies for environmental and social change
