Impact investors are done chasing unicorns – is this the next big thing?

Camilla Bergman, founder of Impact Loop, in Stockholm. Photo: Jonas Borg.
6 maj 2026
06:32
Lots of new impact funds hit the market this year. They tell us something important of the state of the impact market right now, writes Impact Loop's founder Camilla Bergman.

When I started Impact Loop about 2,5 years ago, the big trend in the impact investor community was to create the next big climate tech unicorn.

Today, those times are gone – which we can see clearly in our deep-dive of the impact funds launched and closed during the first quarter of 2026.

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