In response, Social Enterprises have emerged to tackle problems in sectors such as healthcare, education, affordable housing, clean technology and microfinance. But most are unable to make a widespread, systemic, positive impact because they don’t have access to growth capital to expand their operations.

Social Venture Capital firms are beginning to address this need by directly investing in businesses considered socially/environmentally responsible. But even those Social Enterprises with access to some funding are seeing their growth capital needs quickly outpace the capacity of investors in the private markets.

There currently is no Asian platform where socially-minded Impact Investors can efficiently and effectively direct their capital into liquid investments. Traditional stock exchanges provide little attention to Social Enterprises, as their investors’ primarily focus is on maximizing profits.