We examined the flow of transactions at Hatcher as well as third-party transaction information to determine the impact of "impact" decisions on investment returns. For this review we will use the words impact and ESG together. The multiples of the investors who are influenced by impact are much higher than investors who don't.
This leads us to concluding that Impact strategies tend to be more productive than the typical early-stage investment strategies. In this post we look at series A and earlier investments, which are the focus of Hatcher's activities and is able to handle the volume of transactions to allow for an study.
Our analysis examines the changes in value over a time window, as valuations change but not always a realized value, as most investments are unrealized within the time frame. We ignore any valuations that are not current (possibly zero) when there are no pertinent signals.
The following chart illustrates the effect. Below is a summary of one view. This includes particular early-stage round investment and investments over a Click here for more five-year time frame. It illustrates the relative performance of each of our views. But, the results are scenario-specific and materially sensitive to changes in views' parameters.
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The review is a mix of confounding factors. We aren't aware of the intentions of each investment, but we can estimate the impact of investment performance against the complementary pool of investments.
There is some evidence that Impact investors might be drawn to companies that have already gained traction, so they are taking a risk on scalability and choosing better ultimate outcomes, but often paying a premium that may offset portfolio gains. The overall performance of "impact touched" companies is much better on both a short-term and long-term basis.
We used high-frequency venture investor websites that clearly stated "impact" or similar objectives, or a absence of any to label the impact of investments. We ultimately identified a huge number of investments with the help of high-frequency investors. We then identified those investments that have an impact investor, or a blend, a well-known non-impact investment, or both.
A lot of investments are mislabeled since this is not an analysis of time-in-transaction. However, it's a small selection of investors and those who had recently integrated themes on impact tend to be more impact friendly in their older strategies.
There are additional factors at playing that go beyond the nature of investor and their stated purposes. The likelihood is that more scrutinizing and self-selection in alignment with your goals for impact leads to a greater focus on the feasibility of scaling, how to scale team composition, and other elements that may impact the direction of valuation. Many impact investing themes are expected to have strong intrinsic returns.
In summary, there is a strong alignment between investee return multiples and impact investment focus. This provides positive feedback to impact investing that can be used to further amplify impact objectives.