Pomona Impact Fund II LP (DFC-2023-POMONAIMPACTF)

Regions
  • Latin America and Caribbean
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Guatemala
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Borrower
Pomona Impact Management LLC
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Education and Health
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Industry and Trade
  • Water and Sanitation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Equity
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 7.50 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 30.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ DFC website

Updated in EWS Mar 28, 2024

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated by the DFC, the Fund is expected to have a positive development impact in Latin America, particularly in Central America, by providing much needed capital to innovative early-stage companies.
More specifically, the Fund seeks to invest in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that leverage innovation to offer social and environmental solutions. Entrepreneurs and early growth-stage enterprises are critical to providing new and/or improved products/services that are inaccessible to underserved customers in the region due to price and structural constraints. To that end, the Fund seeks to provide capital to SMEs that have highly scalable, measurable social and environmental impacts.

The Fund will invest across a range of sectors including: agriculture, ecommerce, fintech, energy, and basic services, such as education, health, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The Fund Manager will implement a gender inclusion approach, intentionally pursuing investment opportunities in women-owned/led companies and supporting portfolio
companies to define clear goals for gender inclusion.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

As stated by the DFC, equity investments into funds are screened as a Category D activity for the purposes of environmental and social assessment. Based on DFC’s due diligence, the Fund’s downstream investments are anticipated to pose limited environmental and social risks that are site specific and can be readily mitigated though the application of sound environmental and social management practices.

People Affected By This Project
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Investment Description
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Financial Intermediary
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Private Actor Relationship
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Private Actors Description
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As stated on the company's website, Mark Jacobson and Rich Ambrose launched Pomona Impact in 2011 to provide financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Central America.


Contact Information
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No project contacts provided at the time of disclosure.

Financial Intermediary - Pomona Impact Management LLC:

Email: info@pomonaimpact.com
Website: https://pomonaimpact.com/

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Unlike many other development finance institutions, DFC does not currently have an access to information policy.

Under the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), DFC is obliged to respond to reasonably formulated requests for Agency records. However, DFC may apply exemptions from release to certain types of information and may charge fees in responding to requests. DFC has a designated FOIA officer who is trained in how to respond to requests and implement the law. You can learn more about filing a FOIA request at: https://www.dfc.gov/foia

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION (DFC)

The Office of Accountability is an independent office that addresses complaints about environmental or social issues related to DFC-supported projects. The office provides communities an opportunity to have concerns independently reviewed and addressed. If you submit a complaint to the Office of Accountability, it may assist you by either seeking to address your problems by facilitating a problem solving dialogue between you and those implementing the project and/or investigating whether the DFC complied with its policies to prevent environmental, social, human rights, and labor harms.

You can find more information about the Office of Accountability at: https://www.dfc.gov/who-we-are/office-accountability

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