Portfolio
Impact Multiplier
We meet the demands of complex challenges with creativity, a high tolerance for risk, a willingness to be catalytic with capital, and an emphasis on developing the next generation.
Our endowment is 100% mission-aligned, from the program work we perform alongside amazing partners to direct investments, alternatives, and public equities. We work to find and fund solutions that help more people thrive.
projects and companies we are proud to be a part of
Northlane Capital Partners
Northlane Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm that invests in niche healthcare and business services companies. We are a limited partner in Northlane's third fund, part of the private equity allocation within our portfolio.
Asia Companion Fund
The Asia Companion Fund (ACF) is a Singapore-based venture fund that invests in Series A and B+ companies whose cultures seek to bless their stakeholders, starting with their own employees. It was incubated by JLIN Capital Studio, the people-driven investment group founded by Jeremy Lin that operates across Asia and the United States. We are a limited partner in the fund.
Donate Equity
Donate Equity makes complex giving simple. Its software platform and expert team help nonprofits receive early-stage equity gifts from donors — founders, small-business owners, and early employees who want to give a slice of what they're building long before any sale. We are investors in Donate Equity, and our own AV Foundation has been an early user of the platform.
Shelby Park - Louisville, KY
Shelby Park is where Access Ventures began. A small Louisville neighborhood built by German and Irish immigrants around an Olmsted-designed park, it thrived for the first half of the twentieth century and then, like so many American neighborhoods, hollowed out and losing residents and businesses to the suburbs and the interstate, and gaining vacancy, disinvestment, and crime in their place. By the time we began in the spring of 2014, roughly 83% of residents rented, median household income was about 60% below the national figure, and three of every five renters were cost-burdened.
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Catalyze
Catalyze is the platform for capital entrepreneurs, the fund managers working to move capital toward businesses the mainstream overlooks. It gives those managers the capital and support they need to build enduring firms, and it helps allocators find and back exceptional, differentiated managers. Catalyze was birthed out of Blueprint and today Access Ventures serves as its fiscal sponsor and a strategic partner, providing the charitable home, infrastructure, and partnership that lets the Catalyze team focus on its mission.
Peregrine Ventures
Peregrine Ventures forms leaders for a complex world. We co-created it because we believe the hardest problems of our time call for more than technical expertise, they call for clarity of purpose, moral courage, and rightly ordered desire. Rooted in Augustine's vision of ordo amoris — the right ordering of love — Peregrine helps leaders navigate complexity with clarity, courage, and conscience. As the programme puts it, "It's not just a programme, it's a pilgrimage."
Leadership Experience (LX)
The Leadership Experience (LX) envisions a future in which Christian marketplace leaders are known and supported through durable friendships that glorify God, friendships that produce contagious generosity and lives of integrity. We didn't invest in LX from the outside; we helped build it. Access Ventures became involved in 2015, and the vision solidified when the founding board incorporated LX as a nonprofit in 2019. We remain a committed strategic partner today.
Trinity Capital
Trinity Capital is an international alternative asset manager that provides investors access to the private credit market while providing growth-stage companies the capital they need to scale. It sources, vets, and invests in dynamic, privately funded companies across distinct verticals — technology lending, equipment financing, healthcare and life sciences, sponsor finance, and asset-based lending. We are an investor in Trinity Capital, a relationship deepened by a genuine friendship with its leadership.
AV Foundation
The AV Foundation is a donor's partner for impact, a public charity that helps people realize their philanthropic aspirations while fostering a sense of community around every challenge. We started it with friends, and we continue to support its vision and its growth. The team at Access Ventures provides management support to the Foundation and its donor-advised fund accounts.
Reconstruct Challenge
Community Investment Management (CIM)
Access to responsible credit is one of the most basic conditions of economic agency. Without it, a capable borrower can't buy the vehicle that gets them to work, smooth an uneven month, or fund the inventory that grows a business not because they are unreliable, but because legacy underwriting can't see them.
CIM was built to close that gap at scale.
CreativeMornings Louisville
CreativeMornings is the world's largest face-to-face creative community with free monthly breakfast talks held in cities around the globe. We founded, funded, and anchored the Louisville chapter, launching it in 2015 as a natural outgrowth of our creative-economy work in Shelby Park. What began as a way to find and connect the city's creatives became one of the most beloved recurring events in Louisville.
Mobileserve
MobileServe makes it simple to track, verify, and celebrate volunteer service. Its platform lets students and teams log hours in a few taps, verify service with signatures, photos, email, or geotagging, and roll it all up into clear reporting that shows an organization's real impact over time. We were the first check into MobileServe, and we've held a board seat since day one.
Virtuous
Virtuous is the modern fundraising platform built to help nonprofits create more personal donor experiences and grow giving with less work. Founded in 2014 by Gabe Cooper (a founder we're proud to call a good friend) Virtuous pioneered the idea of responsive fundraising: using data, automation, and now AI to help charities treat every donor as a person, not a transaction.
Cliffwater
Cliffwater is one of the most respected authorities in private credit. Founded in 2004 and 100% employee-owned, the firm advises many of the country's largest pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds on alternative investments, and manages its own suite of private-debt funds. We invest through Cliffwater's flagship vehicle, the Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX), a core private-credit allocation within our portfolio.
Catchafire
Catchafire is a capacity-building platform that helps foundations and corporations go beyond the grant by delivering nonprofits the coaching, technical assistance, and skilled volunteers they need to grow stronger and work smarter. We are investors in Catchafire, and we remain invested today.
Lenderfit
Lenderfit is cloud-based loan origination and servicing software built for CDFIs and mission-driven lenders, an intuitive, mobile-friendly platform that lets small lenders do far more with the teams they have. We founded Lenderfit to scale a hard-won lesson from our own lending, and after helping incubate and launch it, we have since sold our ownership. The company continues today, serving mission-driven lenders across 29 states.
AV Blockchain
Caprock
Caprock is an outside managers Access Ventures partners with to steward capital. A privately owned multi-family office serving families and institutions with complex wealth, Caprock builds portfolios across public and private markets while treating impact not as a separate carve-out but as an integrated discipline, the same conviction that has guided our own "one-pocket" approach from the beginning.