Ethical finance platform Goparity raises €2.9m from investors, crowfunding – Impact Investor

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The Portuguese impact finance and investment app aims to make impact investing accessible to a wider audience through its crowdlending platform.
Goparity, a crowdlending platform licensed to operate in the EU and Canada, has raised €2.9m from institutional and private investors. The platform connects private individuals and institutional investors with socially and sustainably-aligned investment opportunities.
As previously reported by Impact Investor, Goparity raised €1.5m during an earlier investment round in 2022. The platform launched its second fundraising round via an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, offering private investors the same investment terms as institutional investors. Goparity attracted investments from 800 private investors, who contributed a total of €470,000.
Institutional investors committed to more than €2.4m collectively, in a round that was led by Portuguese independent asset manager 3xP Global, through its Impact Innovation Fund. Other investors included Portuguese impact venture capital fund Mustard Seed Maze, French social impact investor Schneider Electric Energy Access, Swiss community impact fund Regenerative.eco and InvestEco Capital Corp, an economic development agency from Canada.
Lisbon-based Goparity managed to beat its initial fundraising target of €2.2m at a time when large international investors have started to move away from sustainable investing, according to Nuno Brito Jorge, CEO and co-founder of Goparity.
“To complete a capital round for a purpose-driven company like ours, in such a challenging international context, gathering different national and international reference investors with our investor community is the best validation we can have,” Brito Jorge said.
Goparity plans to use some of the the money to grow its investor community from 60,000 currently to around 110,000 by the end of next year, particularly in Europe and Canada, Brito Jorge told Impact Investor.
The platform, which financed several projects in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, also wants to boost its presence in South America and in other parts of the Southern Hemisphere.
“I believe there is a big potential, and we can see that in our in our platform, by the number of visitors and by our growing number of investors,” Brito Jorge said. “But impact investing for the general public is not something that has reached its potential yet.”
To date, Goparity has lent more than €45m to more than 380 impact projects across three continents through its platform. These include a campaign by Swedish renewable energy installer Recap Energy aimed at refinancing 11 solar energy projects in Colombia, while Portuguese startup Oceântia used a loan from Goparity to develop a new model for an electric bus with zero CO2 emissions. 
The projects have collectively helped to avoid the emissions of more than 30,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, supported the creation of more than 4,700 jobs and had a direct positive impact on around 86,000 people, according to the firm.
Goparity is aiming to lend €20m through its platform this year, followed by €32m in 2026, Brito Jorge said.
“Investing in Goparity is reinforcing the belief that sustainable finance can be accessible, inclusive and scalable. We are very excited to support an incredible team that is transforming the way we finance the future and making impact an easy and real choice for everyone,” said Rita Branco, impact partner at 3xP Global.
Brito Jorge, who came up with the idea for Goparity when he couldn’t find a way to invest his savings sustainably after living abroad for several years, expects his company to reach operational profitability by the end of next year.
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