Our Approach

Zetaly Pty Ltd (Zetaly) is a boutique and ongoing early-stage impact innovation investing platform. Meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is a tremendous market opportunity. We invest in companies that innovate and dare to step out of the zone of incremental change, or “Change-as-Usual.” Zetaly seeks early or expansion-stage companies whose businesses address significant social or environmental issues.

Zetaly seeks early or expansion-stage companies whose businesses address significant social or environmental issues.

Zetaly make investments into companies, organisations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside (or in lieu of) a financial return.

The organisations or funds need to produce or adopt, assimilate, and exploit of a value-added novelty in economic and social spheres; renewal and enlargement of products, services, and markets; development of new methods of production; and an establishment of new management systems. It is both a process and an outcome.

Zetaly will invest in positive social or environmental change predominantly through impact innovators seeking to improve employment, education and life outcomes for disadvantaged communities. Zetaly will provide financing to impact innovators that may not otherwise have access to capital and that require funding to grow their impact and build their sustainability.

Our Objectives

Zetaly's objective is to achieve attractive investment returns whilst making a meaningful social or environmental impact, through providing financing to impact innovators. Zetaly will also seek to achieve the following objectives:

In the short term:

  • Provide a catalyst for market development;
  • Test capacity for and existing barriers to social impact investment and access to capital for impact innovators;
  • Capacity building for impact innovators; and
  • Target investment in priority areas for impact.

In the longer term:

  • Support development of infrastructure to build market place for impact investment;
    • Smart transport infrastructure
    • Smart cities
    • Smart and connected health
    • Smart energy
    • Smart and precision farming
    • Smart manufacturing
    • Smart and connected consumer
  • Support innovative product development; and
  • Attract longer term investment in priority areas for impact.

Our Strategy

We typically invest in organisations that address social and environmental challenges in the following sectors:

  • Clean Energy & Clean Technology
  • Community Development
  • Education
  • Economic Development
  • Health Delivery & Technology
  • Medical Devices
  • Software, Applications, eCommerce, Websites

Zetaly will provide financing to impact innovators that may not otherwise have access to capital. Depending on the capacity of the impact innovators to use growth capital, Zetaly will provide an innovative combination of the following:

  • Loans – loans where the interest rate, principal repayment terms and security requirements are less stringent than commercial banking loan arrangements. Loan facilities will be tailored by Zetaly to the ability of the impact innovators to meet the terms of the loan.
  • Subordinated debt – covering a range of financial products including subordinated debt and profit participating loans.
  • Equity investments – will be equity (ordinary or preference share capital) issued by impact innovators.