While impact holds value, its complexity in assessment due to diversity and individuality has not been adequately considered in decision-making processes. Consequently, essential resources have not been gathered, leaving societal issues unresolved.
The Impact Circle aims to provide a new axis for evaluating decisions through the creation of opportunities via impact finance and visualizing impact. This initiative seeks to generate unprecedented financial flows and address societal challenges.
Money expresses value in numerical terms and investment decision-making involves quantifying financial returns and risks. However, money also generates impacts that cannot be measured in numbers.
Impacts are diverse and their criteria for value are ambiguous. Even the same amount of money can generate different impacts based on who uses it and how. Consequently, impacts have not been adequately considered in decision-making as they are not easily standardized and measuring them involves effort.
Impact Circle was established to provide a new evaluation framework through the creation and visualization of impacts. By returning impact as a form of return, Impact Circle aims to connect impact with stakeholders' decision-making and satisfaction, striving towards a world where impact is integral to decision-making.
By creating and visualizing impact, we provide a framework for decision-making and generate new flows of capital. Analyzing the effects of impact creation on economic returns and risks allows for better prediction and control.
Impact Circle provides finance aimed at creating impact, offering employment opportunities to motivated individuals and investment opportunities to those seeking impact returns.
Furthermore, by measuring, visualizing, and returning the generated impact to the community, we aim to enhance and expand both the quality and quantity of opportunities.
As a result, we strive to address societal challenges such as poverty, inequality, and low productivity.
Social impact is defined as 'the social and environmental outcomes resulting from the activities or business, including short-term and long-term changes' (※ Cabinet Office, GSG National Advisory Board Social Impact Evaluation Working Group, Social Impact Assessment Toolkit Practice Manual (Ver.2)).
Our company defines impact in two dimensions: first, as micro-impact, which encompasses qualitative and quantitative changes experienced by individuals (e.g., changes in lifestyle due to income fluctuations); and second, as social impact in terms of its cumulative effects on the environment and economy (e.g., influencing poverty reduction or educational opportunities for a certain number of people).
We believe that solely pursuing macro-level solutions for societal issues (social impact) might compromise individual micro-impacts when viewed from a micro perspective. Therefore, we prioritize generating micro-impacts as a basis and follow an approach that ultimately realizes social impact (solving societal issues) as an outcome.
Impact Circle, Inc. aims to create well-being for investors and investees (micro-impact) through opportunity creation and impact visualization. As a result, it strives to realize the creation of social impact (solving social issues).
