Dealroom - Impact Report 2022

The Dealroom Impact Report 2022 provides an overview of the impact startup industry and funding trends in 2022. The report shows that after a record year for impact startups in 2021, investment into the impact ecosystem is down 25% in 2022, with $57 billion raised globally. However, impact funding is holding on better than the broader venture capital ecosystem, which is down 36% in 2022 compared to a global peak in 2021. The report also highlights that impact appetite and performance vary significantly by geography, with the US still attracting more than half of impact investment and Europe punching well above its weight based on size of ecosystem and is catching up with the US. Additionally, the report shows that Climate Tech dominates the Impact ecosystem, raising $44 billion in 2022, almost 80% of all impact funding. The report also defines what is considered an impact startup as a company that addresses one or more UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) at the core of its business and has the potential to scale, and it also sits within a broader framework of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) which seeks to reduce the harmful impact of business.