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Unlocking gender-smart capital at scale. The home of global gender lens investing news, data, research, and events. For more about membership go to http://2xglobal.org.

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#MemberMonday | Welcome Grand Challenges Canada to 2X Global! GCC funds women-led, gender-smart innovations in global health and development. Their catalytic capital unlocks opportunities for women worldwide. 🔗 Learn more: http://grandchallenges.ca?platform=hootsuite&utm_campaign=HSCampaign

Ascent Rift Valley Fund II LP earned 2X Certification at Good level, backing growth-driven entrepreneurs across East Africa. 🔗 #2XCertification

Three partnerships, signed on stage this morning, each grounding the Summit theme in a different region. Caribbean GEMS toolbox, Minderoo core funding, and Proparco support for 2X Ignite Africa Facility. #2XGlobalSummit #GroundedCapital #GenderLensInvesting

Warehousing capital gets female-led fund managers to their first deals—but what’s needed for their next fund? At "2X Capital: Capital Continuum," 2X Global highlighted the 2X Ignite Africa Facility’s $26M first close. Working and anchoring capital are still missing links. #2XGlobalSummit

The 2X Global Summit opens in Montréal. CEO Jessica Espinoza: "We are not a moment. We are a movement." Like salmon moving upstream, our community is united in purpose. 👉 "When enough of us move together, we become the current." #2XGlobalSummit #GenderLensInvesting

Canada opens Day 2 at the 2X Global Summit. Patricia Peña welcomes the 2X community to Montréal and honours First Nations traditions. She challenged attendees: build one new partnership, remove one barrier, and make capital work better for women. #2XGlobalSummit #GenderLensInvesting

Day 1 at the 2X Global Summit: RFF Convening, 2X Challenge Working Group, and Ecosystem Welcome Reception. One thread: moving gender-smart finance from intent to action. The highlights are live—check them out 👉 https://bit.ly/4cPpNWX?platform=hootsuite&utm_campaign=HSCampaign

2xglobal.org2X Global Summit 2026: Day 1 Highlights — 2X GlobalHighlights from Day 1 of the 2X Global Summit 2026 in Montréal: the ideas and conversations shaping the future of gender-smart investing.

One day before the 2X Global Summit officially opens, the room was already full. Twenty-seven of the 29 Resilient Futures Fund grantees met face-to-face for the first time today, spanning Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and MENA. 🧵

Welcome to the 2X Global community, NIRAS. With 50 years in international development and a strong gender-smart investing focus, NIRAS works across 30+ countries to advance fund management, finance, private sector growth, and human rights. #2XGlobal #GenderLensInvesting

The 2X Global Summit 2026 is sold out—thanks to our members, partners, and practitioners shaping the future of gender lens investing in Montréal. Special thanks to Global Affairs Canada and FinDev Canada for making this possible. #2XGlobalSummit #Global Parters #Grounded Capital #GLI

How do institutions make gender lens investing last through leadership changes? Hear insights from 2X Global, BII, CdP, and BDC at the 2X Global Summit. #2XGlobalSummit #GroundedCapital #GlobalPartners #GenderLensInvesting

Where does capital flow—and where does it stall—across the agri value chain? At 2X Global Summit, experts unpack what’s investable now and how blended finance can build resilience. #2XGlobalSummit #GroundedCapital #GlobalPartners #GenderLensInvesting

🇬🇧 EN Canada leads in gender lens investing—but what really works, and what doesn’t? Hear lessons and gaps from experts at the 2X Global Summit, 15–17 Sept in Montréal. #2XGlobalSummit #GenderLensInvesting

Who gets left out when AI is shaped by urban, male voices? At the 2X Global Summit in Montréal, we’ll explore how voice-enabled fintech and AI can be more inclusive. #2XGlobalSummit #GroundedCapital #GlobalPartners #GenderLensInvesting

How can one investment drive inclusion across disability, youth, and diversity? At the 2X Global Summit, a panel and workshop explore how the 2X Criteria open new pathways for impact. #2XGlobalSummit

What if investors underwrote financial wellbeing from the start? Join us at the 2X Global Summit in Montréal to explore how wellbeing can drive real performance. Interested in membership? Book a time: https://calendar.app.google/c57CZ9ipWtcX3ktq6 #2XGlobalSummit

Which financing terms actually determine whether women benefit from the transition? Join us at the 2X Global Summit in Montréal, 15–17 Sept, for a working session on what a just transition means for women in climate investment. Explore membership: https://ow.ly/G18I50ZJMoB

Shaping the Future of Gender Lens Investing Join our Fishbowl at the 2X Global Summit 2026 in Montréal to discuss what we’re investing in now and how we can rebuild a cohesive ecosystem together. Fishbowl | 16 Sept, 14:30 Interested? membership@2xglobal.org #2XGlobalSummit

The real conversations aren’t on panels; they’re in the Fishbowl. 2X Global Summit members gather 16 Sept, 14:30 for open, candid exchange on what leaders face now. Interested in Montréal? Explore membership: membership@2xglobal.org

2X Global and Latimpacto have signed an MoU to advance gender-smart capital in Latin America. Together, we’ll open networks, share knowledge, and drive impact for women and girls across the region. #GenderLensInvesting #Impact

🔄 "A full circle moment." As Patricia Pena (Global Affairs Canada) notes, this year's 2X Global Summit is a homecoming. Canada helped launch the 2X Challenge in 2018 during its G7 Presidency, laying the foundation for what became 2X Global. This September, we're bringing it back. 🍁

🔄 « Un retour aux sources. » Comme le souligne Patricia Pena (Affaires mondiales Canada), le 2X Global Summit de cette année marque un retour aux sources. C'est au Canada qu'a été lancé le 2X Challenge en 2018, durant sa présidence du #G7, jetant les bases de 2X Global. Rendez-vous en septembre. 🍁

Private capital is critical to closing the climate finance gap but won't reach women without the right market infrastructure. Our latest paper, submitted to UNFCCC under the Belém Gender Action Plan, outlines what it takes to scale gender-responsive climate finance. www.2xglobal.org/knowledge-hu...

2xglobal.orgGender-Responsive Climate Finance: Scaling Private Investment — 2X Global2X Global's input paper to the UNFCCC Belém Gender Action Plan outlines how blended finance, common standards and gender technical assistance can unlock private investment in gender-responsive climate...

🛣️ 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐎𝐏30: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 Join us during New York Climate Week to explore how finance providers can operationalise the new Gender Action Plan expected to be adopted at COP30, to unlock gender-responsive climate investments at scale. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We’re live from Manila! The 2X Global Summit 2025 has officially begun, gathering over 200 leaders from across the gender finance ecosystem and around the world. Three days to connect, challenge and reimagine the future of inclusive finance. #WomenDrivingResilience #2XGlobalSummit2025

📢 News announcement from 2X Global! A new chapter has started in the 2X Global journey as our first board Chair Sukhvir Basran, hands over the baton of leadership to our newly appointed Chair of the Board of Directors, Dr Kshama Fernandes. Read more on our website: www.2xglobal.org/news-media-s...

2xglobal.orgA New Chapter as 2X Global Welcomes New Board Chair — 2X GlobalWe are honoured to mark a new chapter in our journey as our first board Chair, Sukhvir Basran, hands over the baton of leadership to the new Chair of our Board of Directors, Dr Kshama Fernandes. Ksham...

In September, leaders and stakeholders from across the spectrum of finance - DFIs, investment banks, family offices, foundations, fund managers and many others - will head to Manila, the Philippines for the 2X Global Summit 2025.

We are thrilled to be co-hosting this Summit with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), convening a network of partners and players who are investing in women’s economic empowerment across the globe.

Not just stronger together - but unstoppable! As we look forward to our upcoming 2X Global Summit 2025, this great blog post from our own Marijn Wiersma is timely, reflecting on the strength of solidarity and a shared vision for a more equitable future. www.2xglobal.org/field-notes/...

2xglobal.orgThe Power of Community: together, we're not just stronger – we're unstoppable. — 2X GlobalAs a positive provocateur in the financial space, we understand that true transformation doesn't happen in isolation. It requires the activation of networks, fostering deep connections, and the courag...

Reflecting on our very first 2X Investor Meet-Up in the Caribbean, which was held in Barbados recently. Together with our co-host, the Caribbean Development Bank, we brought together public and private sector leaders and stakeholders in finance.

From bankers to angel investors, fund managers, intermediaries and policy makers, they turned out for a night of vibrant discussions, forging new connections and gaining new insights about the opportunities and existing work ongoing to advance women's economic empowerment through investment.

Building a more inclusive financial system often starts with the right people in the right room. Last week in Nairobi, 2X Global and Graça Machel Trust gathered investors and leaders to talk gender equality in finance.

Closing the gender funding gap is climate action. In BusinessGreen, 2X Global CEO Jessica Espinoza explains why gender equity must be central to climate finance: when capital reaches women on the front lines, solutions become smarter and faster. 📖 Read more www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4413...

businessgreen.comTo fight climate change effectively, we need to close the gender funding gapInvesting in women has a multiplier effect and helps drive progress in reaching other goals, writes 2X Global's CEO Jessica Espinoza