The Peace Dividend Initiative and Symbiotics Announce Partnership to Create the Peace Venture Fund

The Peace Dividend Initiative “PDI”, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to harnessing market forces for peace, and Symbiotics, the leading market access platform for impact investing, today announced the Peace Venture Fund, a partnership between the two organizations to invest in peace-supporting businesses and support entrepreneurs in fragile and at-risk countries.

The Peace Venture Fund “PVF”, the first of its kind, will adopt a venture and impact investment approach to encourage entrepreneurship in fragile and at-risk countries. It will allow a quick deployment of private capital in areas otherwise ignored by traditional market mechanisms. The PVF leverages PDI’s access and expertise in business creation and development in fragile contexts and Symbiotics’ experience in impact investing in frontier markets.