Dear Friend,
September set the pace for the last quarter of 2023: purpose-driven and active. It also marked a poignant moment in the field of gender lens investing with the passing of Suzanne Biegel. Suzanne was a world-renowned and respected pioneer whose fierce and enduring leadership blazed the trail for our community.
Some of you will be opening this newsletter from Luxembourg, where our 2X Annual Member Meeting is underway. This convening, co-hosted by the European Investment Bank, brought together over 200 representatives from across the investment ecosystem for solutions-oriented dialogues, networking and inspired action to step up systemic shifts that will unlock gender-smart capital at scale.
At the Meeting, we launched the Envisioning Fair Futures handbook, which takes us 20 years into the future to envision scenarios at the intersection of gender and climate. These scenarios explore the power, potential and opportunity our actions can have.
We are also proud to announce the 2X Ignite Asia-Pacific cohorts for the GP Sprint and Launch Pad programmes. Meet the fund managers shaping the future of gender-smart investing in the Asia-Pacific region here.
Moreover, the deadline of the first round of grant funding under the Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF) is drawing near (October 6). Launched by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with Founding Members Amazon, Visa Foundation and Reckitt, the Fund seeks to catalyse gender equity in climate finance.
Lastly, we are honored to take Suzanne’s seminal work on private markets fund scanning, Project Sage, forward as Project Catalyst. This collaborative initiative between 2X Global and Sagana is a global scan of gender lens in private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds. Contribute to this initiative by completing and sharing this survey.
In Community, 2X Global team |