Mana Impact

What Mana Impact does

Mana Impact is a Singapore-registered impact investment advisory firm (Mana Impact Group Pte Ltd) that mobilizes capital for nature-positive businesses across Southeast Asia. It serves family offices, foundations, and impact investors seeking both financial returns and measurable environmental outcomes, as well as founders and nature-positive innovators who need capital and strategic support. The firm operates an integrated ecosystem of four interconnected units — Direct Investments (Mana Blue Planet Facility, providing working capital and venture debt), Market Intelligence (proprietary and commissioned research including GIS analyses and expert interviews), Studios (training and accelerator programs such as the Biodiversity Accelerator+ co-created with Silverstrand Capital), and Capital Advisory (deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management).

The firm's core technology is a market intelligence platform that combines primary and secondary research, GIS analyses, and expert interviews to generate insights on nature-positive markets, particularly in Southeast Asia. Proprietary outputs include the Ocean Funding Landscape in Southeast Asia (covering 345+ unique funders across 2019-2024) and the Nature-based Solutions in Southeast Asia report (560 projects reviewed, commissioned by UBS Optimus Foundation). Underlying distribution is delivered through direct advisory engagements, commissioned research reports, accelerator partnerships, and participation in coalitions including 1000 Ocean Startups, where founder Patricia Chu sits on the steering committee.

Mana Impact generates revenue through a mix of professional services (advisory, studios/training), research commissions and licensing of proprietary reports, and managed capital via the Mana Blue Planet Facility. The go-to-market combines thought leadership content (LinkedIn, blog, research publications), event participation (ChangeNOW, SOCAP, CleanTech Forum), and direct enterprise sales to family offices, foundations, and ecosystem partners. Past advised investments include Vence (acquired by Merck), Elucid, Systemiq Capital, and At One Ventures. The firm is privately held, founder-led, and registered as an exempt person entity with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Name

Mana Impact

Legal name

Mana Impact Group Pte Ltd

Website

https://manaimpact.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Mana Impact is a Singapore-based impact investment advisory firm that mobilizes capital for nature-positive businesses across Southeast Asia through four integrated units: Direct Investments (Mana Blue Planet Facility), Market Intelligence research, Studios (training and accelerators), and Capital Advisory services for family offices, foundations, and founders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Impact Investment Advisory

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394), Miscellaneous Intermediation (52391)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Impact Investing (Intentional, Measurable Social/Environmental Outcomes) (FSAAALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Impact / ESG Venture Capital (FSANAAAG), Impact Investing & Social Finance (Funds, CDFIs, Microfinance) (BPAGALAA)

Keywords

• Impact investment advisory
• Nature-positive financing
• Venture debt facility
• Circular economy advisory
• Sustainable agriculture investing

Headquarters

HQ city

Central

HQ country

Hong Kong SAR China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Advisory Services: Impact investment advisory services for family offices, foundations, and investors including deal-sourcing, investment analysis, and portfolio management
2. Mana Blue Planet Facility: Provides working capital and venture debt financing to nature-positive businesses in Asia, focusing on regenerative agriculture, sustainable aquaculture, waste valorization, and nature-based solutions
3. Market Intelligence Reports: Commissioned and proprietary research reports on ocean funding landscape, nature-based solutions, and sustainable food systems in Southeast Asia
4. Studios & Training Programs: Direct support programs, accelerator partnerships, and training for nature-positive businesses including the World's First Accelerator for Nature-Positive Businesses

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Mana Impact is an impact investment advisory firm that mobilizes capital for nature-positive and circular economy businesses across Asia. It delivers its offering through four interconnected units: Direct Investments via the Mana Blue Planet Facility (working capital and venture debt to founders of regenerative businesses), Advisory Services (capital mobilization and strategic partnership development for investors and innovators), Studios (strategy development and training programs), and Market Intelligence (primary and secondary research, including GIS analyses of nature-positive opportunities).

Product overview

Mana Impact operates as an integrated ecosystem comprising four interconnected service units: Direct Investments (Mana Blue Planet Facility providing working capital and venture debt), Advisory Services (capital mobilization and strategic partnerships), Studios (strategy development and training), and Market Intelligence (primary and secondary research). The firm focuses on nature-positive impact in Asia across land, oceans, and biodiversity sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mana Blue Planet Facility: Provides working capital and venture debt to businesses with potential for scalable, nature-positive outcomes in Asia, on land and sea.
• Mana Studios

Products and services

• Mana Blue Planet Facility

Quantifiable outcome

• Ocean funding landscape report covers over 345 unique funders and 5 years of data (2019-2024)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• 1000 Ocean StartupsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Mana Impact's founder Patti Chu sits on the steering committee to lead the coalition's action in Asia. The coalition unites global ecosystem of incubators, accelerators, competitions, matching platforms and VC firms supporting startups for ocean impact.
• Silverstrand CapitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-creator of the Biodiversity Accelerator+ program, a three-month accelerator supporting founders through coaching on biodiversity impact measurement, fundraising, and marketing strategies.
• EnviroStratcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Mana Impact on the Catalysing Nature-based Solutions report, providing expertise in developing high-quality NbS project assessment frameworks.
• TONIICminorGTM or Marketing PartnerImpact investing network that Mana Impact and its clients participate in for knowledge sharing and networking.
• AVPNminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAsia-based venture philanthropy and social investment network that Mana Impact engages with for ecosystem connectivity.
• AcumenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerImpact investing organization that Mana Impact collaborates with through network connections and shared impact investing community.
• Villgro PhilippinesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerEarly-stage social enterprise incubator and part of Mana Impact's ecosystem of Philippine impact investing partners.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• At One Ventures: At One Ventures is an early-stage fund backing disruptive technologies that improve planetary health; Mana Impact has advised investments into the fund, and both target founders resetting industries causing environmental damage — a directly overlapping thesis.
• Acumen: Acumen is a global impact investing organization that deploys patient capital into early-stage enterprises addressing poverty; Mana Impact lists Acumen as an ecosystem partner, and both serve foundations and family offices allocating impact capital with intentional outcomes.
• Systemiq Capital: Systemiq Capital is an early-stage B2B climate tech venture fund that Mana Impact has advised investments into; both back climate-tech ventures with system-change potential and work with similar LP bases in the climate-aligned capital pool.
• EcoEnterprises Fund: EcoEnterprises Fund finances growing businesses that preserve and restore natural habitats and is listed as a Mana Impact customer; both funds deploy growth capital into nature-positive and biodiversity-positive businesses in Latin America and beyond, serving similar impact-mandated LPs.
• AVPN: AVPN is an Asia-based venture philanthropy and social investment network; Mana engages AVPN as a GTM and ecosystem partner, and both convene funders, foundations, and social investors across Asia with a shared mandate to mobilize catalytic capital.
• TONIIC: TONIIC is a global impact investing network of high-net-worth investors and family offices; Mana Impact participates through its GTM partnership, and both platforms convene impact capital allocators around curated deal flow and due-diligence resources.
• Builders Vision: Builders Vision is a venture philanthropy and impact investment platform backing people and companies addressing systemic challenges; it is a core financial backer of the Mana Blue Planet Facility, and both share a thesis of using catalytic capital to scale nature-positive solutions.
• Mirova Natural Capital: Mirova's Natural Capital fund invests in nature-based solutions and sustainable land-use businesses globally; it is explicitly named as a Mana Impact ecosystem co-investor and operates in overlapping nature-positive verticals with similar LP and foundation clients.
• Silverstrand Capital: Silverstrand Capital is a co-creator of Mana's Biodiversity Accelerator+ program; both operate at the intersection of biodiversity investing and accelerator programming for nature-positive founders in Asia.
• Villgro Philippines: Villgro Philippines is an early-stage social enterprise incubator that Mana Impact lists as a Philippine impact investing partner; both provide incubation, advisory, and capital support to founders building impact-focused ventures in the region.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments2 records

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