The Centre for Earned Impact (CEI) is a Pacific-focused venture studio. We build Pacific ventures and the capital pathways that back them.

Earned Impact is the thesis that business viability has to be proven through real-world intervention before capital arrives. Prove the business model before you raise the capital, then build the capital paths that follow what's actually working. Most Pacific impact still gets funded the other way round. Capital commits on the strength of a theory of change and a set of projections. The venture then spends the funding cycle trying to prove the model after the money has already moved. Good money keeps flowing into concepts that haven't had to prove themselves commercially.

CEI's work has two parts. We design and test new ventures with local founders and partners, then build the capabilities and partnerships those ventures need to grow. Alongside that, we design the capital pathways that bring aligned investment in behind what's actually working.

We work with two kinds of partner.

For development partners and donors, including bilateral programmes, multilaterals, philanthropic capital and challenge funds, we act as a design and execution partner. We turn strategies and innovation portfolios into ventures with clear commercial, impact and capital pathways.

For founders, operators and investors active in the Pacific, we offer hands-on venture building support, capital structuring, and access to a regional network of partners and aligned capital.

CEI's ambition is to launch and support 50 ventures across the Pacific over the next decade. If you're building, funding or operating ventures in the region and you want them to work after the program cycle ends, we'd like to work with you.

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