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responsAbility Investments

Zollstrasse 17, Zurich, 8005, Switzerland

Overview

A leading impact asset manager, responsAbility manages over USD 3 bn of assets invested in 450 fully ESG-compliant high-impact companies across 90 emerging economies. Since the company's inception in 2003, responsAbility-managed funds have disbursed USD 10 bn in private debt and private equity to companies in the financial inclusion, sustainable food and climate finance sectors whose business models directly support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). responsAbility is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and has local offices in Bangkok, Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris and Tbilisi. Owned by various reputable Swiss and international financial institutions, private investors and its own employees, responsAbility is registered with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.

Total investments
17
Lead investments
9
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • Skye Renewables

    Led · Equity · Apr 2026

    Skye Renewables develops solar energy projects, focusing on onsite rooftop installations and offsite grid-connected plants that supply corporate off-takers. The company is based in Singapore and targets markets across Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. It plans to use the $15 million financing from responsAbility to accelerate deployment and expand its regional footprint. Skye Renewables has positioned its project pipeline toward corporate offtake arrangements across Southeast Asia. The company is backed by investors including Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd and British International Investment, and is pursuing strategic financing to support growth.

  • Ace International

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

    Ace International converts raw milk into infant- and adult-nutrition inputs, whey proteins, milk powder, ghee, butter fat, ready-to-mix products, and other protein formulations for domestic and export markets. Its existing Uttar Pradesh plant processes roughly 500,000 litres of milk per day and supplies customers in India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. The firm is building a second, larger facility in Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, that will introduce new dairy-nutrition processing technology to the Asian market and is expected to engage over 40,000 farmers—many of them women—through sourcing partnerships. This expansion aims to bolster rural livelihoods while enabling the production of specialised nutrition ingredients for global food and nutrition companies. Ace International intends to widen its export footprint to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. The company serves both B2B and B2C channels, positioning itself as a vertically integrated player in the dairy value chain. Funding from its latest round will also be deployed to reinforce its supply-chain infrastructure, supporting continued scale-up and market diversification.

  • Euler Motors

    Led · Debt Financing · Jan 2025

    Founded in 2018, Euler Motors focuses on electric commercial vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery. The company targets commercial EV segments where uptime, reliability and operating economics are key decision factors. Euler is backed by investors including Hero MotoCorp and Blume Ventures and has raised about Rs 1,900 crore (roughly $229 million) to date. Management, led by founder and CEO Saurav Kumar, says the company is transitioning from early scale-up to a phase of deeper, more consistent growth across products, markets and operations. Euler plans to use recent funding to expand its product line and manufacturing capacity and to scale its network across India to capture market share in the commercial EV segment.

  • FarMart

    Led · Equity · May 2024

    FarMart is a Gurugram-based SaaS B2B food commerce platform launched in 2015 by Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Hans. The platform connects about 2,000 food manufacturers and brands, three million farmers, and 400 factories across six countries and maintains a catalogue of roughly 90 food commodities. FarMart provides technological solutions for supply chain and logistics and acquired the fruits-and-vegetables logistics platform Subjimandi.app in March 2022. The company says sustainability is central to its business and plans to use new funding to build a carbon-efficient food supply chain. FarMart will also leverage ResponsAbility Investments' expertise to optimise its solutions and reduce food loss and waste. Total fundraising to date is around USD 50 million following prior financings. FarMart (Farmart Service Pvt Ltd.) operates a micro‑SaaS platform that digitizes agri-retailer workflows, enabling retailers to increase sales to farmers and to source large quantities of produce faster and cheaper. The company’s platform serves 60,000 retailers and reaches two million farmers via its mobile app, and has distributed output linkage across over 600 Indian districts with 75,000 metric tonnes sourced across more than 15 commodities. FarMart plans to use new capital to boost its digital distribution network in India and into export markets, and to invest in research and development, automation, and technology. Financially, it raised $32.0M in a Series B and has now raised $48.0M in total to date. The business was founded in 2015 by Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Singh Hans and is based in Gurugram, India. FarMart is a B2B SaaS-led food supply platform that enables food businesses and agri-input retailers to source quality produce in large quantities directly from farms at lower prices and faster turnaround. The company provides a micro-SaaS platform to help retailers digitize workflows, increase sales to farmers, and procure commodities to sell to large enterprises, opening new revenue streams for retailers. FarMart’s model centers around empowering the retailer community while streamlining farm-to-business sourcing. The company plans to use the new funding to expand its distribution network across India, scale product capabilities, and grow the team. The October 2021 Series A also provided an exit for early investors Indian Angel Network and LetsVenture. Founders Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Singh Hans started the company to address key retailer challenges in produce sourcing and distribution. FarMart operates a mobile-first platform that helps agri-retailers serve farmers by providing access to information, input supplies, and market linkages. The company leverages technology, the trust of agri-business communities, and optimizes under-utilised retailer assets to streamline the value chain from input to output. Founded in 2016 by Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Singh Hans and based in Gurugram, FarMart has onboarded 10,000 retailers within nine months and claims access to over 400,000 farmers across 15 states. It aims to become the largest online platform connecting food businesses with over 10 million farmers through a nationwide retailer network by 2025. FarMart raised $2.4M in a pre-Series A round and said it will use the funds for product development, user-base expansion, and scaling its market linkage capabilities. The company focuses on building a scalable, trust-based distribution network to reach farmers at the first mile and improve value realisation for farmers and buyers.

  • CleanEdge Resources

    Led · Equity · Jan 2024

    CleanEdge Resources is a Singapore-headquartered company. The article reports that impact asset manager responsAbility Investments AG invested $20 million in CleanEdge Resources. No core product, service description, or operating metrics were disclosed in the article. The report does not specify the instrument used for the investment (equity, debt, or other). The article also does not provide information on prior funding rounds, founding year, revenue, users, or future plans. No details were given on use of proceeds or strategic implications of the investment.

Team

  • Rochus Mommartz

    Founder & CEO

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  • Rudrashis Roy, CFA

    Investment Officer

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  • Rik Vyverman

    Head of Sustainable Food Private Equity

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  • Enrique Hurtado

    Head of Financial Institutions Debt LATAM and Country Director, Peru

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