Equality Transformative Tool

The Equality Transformative Tool is our due diligence framework designed to help identify early-stage ventures with the potential to tackle the root causes of inequality. 

Created in collaboration with diverse impact-tech ventures and equality experts at the Equality Impact Investing Project and Connect Fund, the tool guides investors in evaluating both the principles (intent, influence, intervention) and practices (bringing voice, demonstrating reflective practice, role modelling change, and navigating towards transformation) that underpin truly equality-transformative innovation.

This interactive tool is ideal for:

• Impact investors seeking to fund ventures that drive both social and financial returns.

• Ventures working with or for marginalised communities and aiming to embed equality into their mission and operations.

Whether you're performing due diligence on a pre-seed or seed investment, or assessing your own venture’s equality impact, the tool helps you:

• Score and interpret a venture’s equality transformative potential.

• Make informed investment decisions.

• Provide developmental feedback to help ventures grow in authenticity and impact.

Use it to integrate equality into your investment strategy, prevent mission drift, and strengthen long-term resilience and trust.

• Click here to access the Equality Transformative Tool.

• Click here to access our How-to guide.

• Click here  to access our article which outlines our insights and how investors can tackle structural inequality.