The Journey Fund leverages decades of impact and sustainability investing experience to generate attractive returns and enhanced social, environmental, and economic outcomes in emerging and growth markets.
Origin & Purpose
Emerging markets hold the greatest untapped potential for holistic investment in a just transition — The Journey Fund is designed to unlock that potential. The fund blends public and private capital to turn high-impact opportunities into scalable, investable assets.
Approach
A multi-thematic strategy focused on regions committed to a just transition blends public and private capital to capture long-term climate drivers while mitigating macro and market risks. The Journey Fund pairs global commercial discipline with local expertise to access local alpha at lower origination costs and deploy capital at speed and scale due to cross-portfolio knowledge sharing across geographies.
Risk mitigation comes from aligning public and private interests, through co-investments and guarantees from regional institutions, and clear policy signals that reinforce commitment to just transition projects.
Structure
The Journey Fund operates
as a global fund-of-funds platform.
Global Reach
The Journey Fund targets emerging and growth markets — initially Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Africa, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The global platform and its regional sub-funds provide diversified exposure across geographies, currencies, and asset classes.
The global portfolio manager (GP) works closely with regional managers on capital allocation and investments across energy and infrastructure assets, growth companies, and mature, buyout, and pre-IPO companies. The Journey Fund platform builds a portfolio consisting of proven climate investment specialists and high-potential local managers to capture the global energy transition in emerging and growth markets across the transition value chain.
Strong global and regional partnerships unlock:
Robust project pipelines
Backed by policy frameworks and sovereign co-investment.
Community credibility
and social licence
Ensuring project success and long-term impact.
Catalytic and risk-tolerant capital
Multiplying private and public investment.
Regional investment managers
With deep local expertise and proven track records in capital deployment
Latin America
Colombia: Active Pilot (2025-2027)
Africa
Pipeline (Scoping Stage)
Asia & SIDS
Scaling Frontier (2027-2030)
The LatAm Blueprint
Latin America (LatAm) needs over $150 billion annually for clean energy but currently receives less than 15% of the resources required, indicating a significant market gap.
The price tag reflects the projected 90% increase in Latin America’s electricity demand by 2050 — one of the fastest growth rates worldwide.
Pilot fund:
Colombia
Colombia exemplifies a strong test case for investment thanks to its long-term commitment to a just transition and bi-partisan support for blended financing of clean energy projects.
Meet the moment
Uruguay, Chile, and sub-national jurisdictions of Brazil round out the initial focus of the Latin America blueprint, diversifying investments across the region.
Project Pipeline
The Journey Fund focuses on energy, regenerative agriculture, and infrastructure as the foundation of a just transition—specifically, investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, infrastructure, food systems, and other nature-based solutions that improve community health and well-being, and provide new economic opportunities.
This core focus is complemented by a holistic approach to the broader just transition value chain, encompassing responsible consumer industries, mobility solutions, social infrastructure and housing, as well as circular economy models.
The LatAm blueprint is built to showcase the viability of a just transition project pipeline, building on the continent's potential to scale bio-economies and regenerative solutions.
Civil Society Partnership
The Journey Fund is developed in partnership with and in support of the Fossil Fuel Treaty, a proposed plan for a global just transition to phase out fossil fuels. While the Treaty initiative advances the political vision for international cooperation on ending the extraction of fossil fuels, the Journey Fund complements it by directing capital toward Treaty-participating jurisdictions in projects that promote post-fossil economies, proving how finance matching political signals can build just economies forever.
Showcasing material economic upside of a just energy transition:
-Private investment mobilization
-Long-term energy savings and security
-Local community energy access and impact
-New generational wealth opportunities
-Environmental & health co-benefits
Triple Impact
The Journey Fund platform blends public and private capital to generate attractive returns and significant impact in emerging markets. Current return and impact estimates from initial pilot pipeline analysis include:
8-12%
IRR
1.6 GW
clean energy installed
3–4 MtCO₂
emissions avoided
2.5M
people Reached
60,000
jobs Created
10×
capital leverage Achieved
Roadmap to
Global Scale
The Journey Fund is incubated by Bridging Ventures and EBG Investment Solutions Ltd., with an initial pilot fund for Latin America.
Bridging Ventures is a project fiscally sponsored by Res Publica US Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) organization in the US and charity in the UK partnered with an LLC. Bridging Ventures is orchestrating the design and incubation of the fund, mobilizing early commitments, and providing strategic advice and programmatic support to accelerate a just transition to a regenerative future for all.
EBG Investment Solutions Ltd. is a specialist CIO office and regulated asset manager focused on the SME segment within private markets. EBG provides customized one-stop-shop solutions to institutional investors and families, whereby the sustainability transition is a key driver of resilience and return, concurrently achieving material positive societal impact.
2024 – Now
Incubation
November 2025
Pilot Launch
2026 Onwards
Consolidation & Expansion