DBL Investors

DBL Investors is a venture capital firm that also works as an impact investor. It aims to back companies that produce strong investment results while bringing social, environmental and economic benefits, and it holds that financial performance and social change go together.

What DBL Investors offers

• Venture investment — funding for growing companies with high return potential.
• Impact focus — an emphasis on companies that create wider benefits as well as profit.
• Entrepreneur support — help for the founders it backs as they develop their businesses.

Who it works with

The firm invests in four areas.

• Cleantech
• Information technology
• Sustainable products and services
• Healthcare

Its news feed mentions portfolio companies such as ZOLA Electric, which supplies solar and battery power to remote African villages, and Menlo Micro, a maker of micromechanical power switches. Its founder and managing partner has been an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX.