responsAbility Investments (responsability.com) is a Swiss impact asset manager headquartered at Zollstrasse 17, Zurich — a private enterprise founded in 2003 that has been part of M&G plc, the international savings and investments business, since 2022.

Thesis

responsAbility invests across three themes aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals — Financial Inclusion (financing micro and small enterprises), Climate Finance (the net-zero pathway) and Sustainable Food — using private debt and private equity in more than 500 non-listed companies across roughly 90 emerging and developing countries (per its World Economic Forum profile). EU-Startups, citing company data, reports over USD 15.3 billion deployed since inception.

India presence

responsAbility operates in India through responsAbility India Business Advisors Private Limited in Mumbai (incorporated 28 September 2011). Specific India portfolio investments could not be verified from the sources read for this profile and are therefore not named here — founders should approach the Mumbai team directly for the current mandate.

Model

Unlike accelerators, responsAbility offers institutional and retail impact-investment products — open and closed investment funds — rather than start-up programmes. Its capital reaches companies through fund structures, which makes it most relevant to founders at the growth stage seeking debt or equity from an impact-mandated manager with emerging-market depth.

Fund size

The firm does not publish a single current fund-size figure on its public homepage; published AUM figures vary by date and source, so no single number is stated here. The verifiable scale marker is the USD 15.3 billion deployed since inception reported by EU-Startups.

responsAbility's three themes — Financial Inclusion, Climate Finance and Sustainable Food — are pursued through private debt and private equity in more than 500 non-listed companies across roughly 90 emerging and developing countries, per its World Economic Forum profile. EU-Startups, citing company data, puts total capital deployed since inception at over USD 15.3 billion — a scale marker that reflects two decades of compounding rather than a single flagship fund.

Since 2022 the firm has operated as part of M&G plc, giving its impact products distribution through a global savings and investments platform. For Indian founders the practical entry point is responsAbility India Business Advisors Private Limited in Mumbai — the on-the-ground team that can say which of the firm's open and closed investment funds currently has an India mandate.

Why it matters for founders

If you are a growth-stage Indian company in financial inclusion, climate or sustainable food seeking impact-mandated debt or equity — and you want a manager whose entire business is emerging markets — responsAbility's Mumbai presence makes it directly approachable. Come with institutional-grade reporting; this is not seed capital.