Invest with Impact.
Scaling up investable climate and social strategies
Who We Are
Akari Capital (あかりキャピタル) was set up by long time investment and finance professionals who contributed in building sustainable and impact investing globally in the last 2 decades.
We believe in making good financial returns, while problem solving to green the planet and empower people and importantly grow.
We are also committed to scaling the transition and impact market significantly and credibly.
Akari Capital aims to bridge genuine climate and social investments and investors, with large institutional investors, corporates and the public sector/governments through its impact platform and impact advisory business.
Yoshiko Saito
Founder and CEO
Yoko Sugita
Founder and Advisor
Mari Kogiso
Advisor
Catriona Paterson
Advisor
Jenny Koh
Advisor
Hama Makino
Advisor
What We Offer
The Impact Platform aggregates impact funds and direct investments that are tailor made to the investors’ strategic and impact objectives. Akari Capital will support with sourcing global investment opportunities, perform a detialed impact and financial due diligence, and create a well diversified strategic impact portfolio to be monitored closely for strategic impact and financial returns achievement. This is suited for corporates looking for strategic investment opportunities for new technology and renewable energy acquisition to transition/GX their existing business, as well as institutional investors looking for a well diversified portfolio in genuine impact investing with risk appropriate financial returns which are generally too small as single tickets.
The Impact Advisory business looks to support sustainable and impact investors as well as ESG investors, such as climate and social funds as well as institutional, corporate and public/governments, to complement and act as a general sparring partner to the CSOs (fractional CSO service), reviewing and advancing investors’ climate and social strategy (sustainability strategy building), as well as supporting the operationalization of the climate and social strategy, including action plans and measurements (operationalizing impact practice).
Impact Platform
MATERIALITY ASSESSMENT
SELECTING INVESTMENT MEASURES & STRUCTURE
DUE DILIGENCE / PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Impact Advisory
FRACTIONAL CSO SERVICE
IMPACT STRATEGY AND DISCLOSURE SETUP
OPERATIONALIZING IMPACT
Our Vision and Mission
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- What we offer：
We support corporates, financial institutions, and policymakers with strategic investments, and promote collaborations with and among climate and social focused fund managers, companies, and projects. - Our vision：
We strongly believe that financial returns and impact can go hand in hand, and we strive to address sustainability and social challenges, with a core focus on climate change and gender empowerment. - Our mission：
Akari Capital is a private markets investor dedicated to catalyzing and fostering long-term growth for our clients and partners beyond 2030-2050.
Sustainability Roundtables and Insights
For a mutual development of impact investing across the industry, Akari Capital hosts roundtables stakeholders including the below:
- Investors and impact fund managers
- CSOs or sustainability champions and teams
- Women led business & management / board members / investors
- Policymakers and industry associations for public-private-partnership efforts
Upcoming Sustainability Roundtables
2025.09.22-26. How CVC strategies have partnered with climate funds: success stories
2025.10.20. Buyout-driven case example of decarbonizing European SMEs and supply chains (annual target >7.5% CO2e reduction)
Please reach out about future roundtables.
Past Sustainability Roundtables
2025.06. Why do impact now? Revisiting leading corporate and impact fund strategies, to reflect on own strategy, pain points, and solutions
2025.05. Collaboration between GPs/LPs in European climate tech investment x Case of European portfolio company in Japan
2025.02. Promoting inclusive economic growth
by expanding the middle class in India through technology x AI investments in JobTech, EdTech, etc.
2024.12. Scaling Emerging Markets climate infrastructure as a blended finance
2024.10. Decarbonizing the European mid-market
2024.4. Breaking the myths of CSOs
Insights
For global knowledge share, Akari Capital contributes as a speaker at impact conferences, especially in the areas where impact x financial returns have been met such as in microfinance, gender finance, infrastructure, renewable energy, and SME investment; as well as unique structures such as blended finance and public partivate partnerships.
2025.07. At the “Frontlines of Blended Finance and its Potential in Japan,” organized by JANPIA, Akari Capital founder and CEO Yoshiko Saito shared about one of the earliest global case studies of blended finance she was involved, her lessons learnt, and any potential application to Japan.
2025.07. At the “FDSF PEST Conference 2025,” Akari Capital founder and CEO Yoshiko Saito gave a presentation of the oldest (social housing / microfinance) to newest areas (corporate supply chain decarbonization), where finance could contribute in sustainability “problem solving” through impact investng.
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Contact
For any inquiries, please contact us by e-mail.