Our Investment Target, Criteria and Process
Target Projects
- Create social impact, with healthy business model
- High potential to grow into a big scale
- Lining up: commercial and social sector, CSR initiatives of corporation
- Starting up: any organization or individuals in society
- Growing up: existing SE projects
Selection Criteria
- Scalable Social Impact
- Deep understanding of social problem
- Clear and strong vision in social mission
- Social Innovation
- Unique & innovative ideas
- Creative destruction to existing system
- Engagement & Complementariness
- Track record of engagement with SVhk
- Ways on how SVhk can create value to the SE
- ESG Compliance
- Effect of SE and measures related to the environment, social and business integrity & legal compliance
- Business Model
- Understanding of market & competition
- Positioning & core competencies
- Risk management
- Financial Viability
- Budget & forecasts with different scenarios
- Identified funding gap
- Breakeven & return consideration
- Organization & Entrepreneur
- Committed entrepreneurs with vision, energy & good communication
- Support network with customers, stakeholders
- Operations & System Management
- Technical review of the appropriateness & solidity of product/service
the SE delivers (e.g. information system, operating capacity)
Investment Process
Business Plan Submission
Please review our investment criteria above for more detailed information on how we evaluate and structure our investments. If your business/idea meets these criteria, we would like to hear more about it!
To be considered for funding, please fill out the online application form.*
* All information submitted will be kept confidential and will be used strictly for the purpose of reviewing the project's suitability for investment.
Within a month of application, you will be notified about next steps of application that consists of a set of written Q&A and an interview.
For any inquiry related to business plan submission or fund seeking activity, please email
businessplan@sv-hk.org.
