blue river group
Australia's impact investment services firm
IN THE NEWS
Tuesday 14 July 2020
The Bridge Hub 2020 Water Challenge has officially launched and applications are now open! The aim of the Water Challenge is to uncover the best and brightest research, the most innovative ideas and the best startups that positively impact water sustainability within our agrisystem.
For more information, click here: 2020 Water Challenge
Friday 1 February 2019
Bridge Hub & Austrade announce that applications are now open for an Australian agri & food tech founders bootcamp at Austrade's Tel Aviv Landing Pad to be held in late April 2019.
For more information, click here: Bridge Hub Announcement
Monday 22 October 2018
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Michael McCormack MP welcomes grant for Bridge Hub, the national innovational hub based in Wagga Wagga.
For more information, click here: Bridge Hub Press Release
Saturday 20 October 2018
Bridge Hub, the global agrifood tech innovation hub recently launched by Blue River Group, receives $500,000 Grant from the Australian Government.
For more information, click here: Bridge Hub Press Release
Saturday 20 October 2018
The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Industry, Science & Technology announces Bridge Hub as a recipient of a $500,000 grant from the Australian Government's Incubator Support Initiative.
For more information, click here: Bridge Hub Press Release
Monday 03 September 2018
Blue River Group announces the launch of Bridge Hub, a global agrifood tech innovation hub located in regional Australia.
For more information, click here: Bridge Hub Press Release
Blue River Group announces Project Bridge, an industry led farming and innovation initiative in the Wagga Wagga region.
For more information, click here: Project Bridge Press Release
Blue River Group finalises acquisition of the iconic Wagga Wagga dairy brand Riverina Fresh.
For more information, click here: Riverina Fresh Press Release
Blue River invests in the future of Australian agriculture, acquiring the iconic Wagga Wagga dairy brand Riverina Fresh.
For more information, click here: Riverina Fresh Press Release
ABOUT BLUE RIVER
Blue River is Australia's independent impact investment services firm. We help mobilise capital towards the rapidly growing local and global impact investment markets. We are a profit with purpose business.
The sole purpose of Blue River is to undertake projects and deals that generate economic returns for investors but equally achieve positive and measurable social or environmental outcomes.
Measuring financial return has been standard market practice since investment markets were first established. Having the appropriate tools to be able to measure positive social or environmental outcomes is the exciting new development in investment markets.
As an independent impact market intermediary and deal facilitator, Blue River leverages the expertise of its experienced team and partnership arrangements to make impact markets more accessible to the global investment community.
Blue River is an ideas incubator. It assists clients in creating impact investment products and then finding the appropriate wholesale investors to invest in the products.
SERVICES WITH IMPACT
Blue River enables impact investment through a broad spectrum of services spanning from the creation and incubation of ideas through to impact advisory and financial services.
Commercialising Impactful Ideas in
Agrifood Tech
Bridge Hub is the commercialisation arm of Blue River Group.
It is a regional agrifood tech innovation hub that identifies, tests and commercialises ideas and technologies of researchers and entrepreneurs. Bridge Hub develops and brings to market impactful agrifood ideas and innovations, that deliver both a commercial return and a measurable and positive impact on society or the environment.
SECTORS WITH IMPACT
We believe impact investing is an approach across asset classes, rather than an asset class in itself. We offer impact advisory services, covering all impact sectors, including:
APPROACH WITH IMPACT
Blue River adopts a rigorous and disciplined approach which comprises:
WHAT IS IMPACT INVESTING?
Like traditional investments, impact investments provide a financial return on investment with the additional dimension of an intentional and measurable positive impact.
A TEAM WITH IMPACT
Blue River's management team combines many years of financial, legal and business experience in Australian and offshore markets, including recognised leadership and fundraising in the impact investment market.
GRANT FUZI
Co-CEO & Founder
Grant has more than 25 years of global transaction expertise as a partner at top tier law firms. He has worked in London, Hong Kong and Sydney across many sectors including agriculture, health, infrastructure and private equity.
Having established the Australian offices of the UK law firm Allen & Overy, Grant's most recent roles were Managing Partner & Senior Partner for Allen & Overy in Australia.
He is recognised by his peers to be one of Australia’s leading legal practitioners and business leaders, having been voted as one of Sydney's 100 most influential leaders. Grant serves on the Advisory Board of The Big Issue and has been a member of the NSW Business Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of the Australia Business and Community Network.
CRAIG SHAPIRO
Co-CEO & Founder
Craig is a financial services expert and entrepreneur with more than 35 years of experience, 22 of which were at the investment bank Macquarie Group. He was the Global Group Treasurer & Executive Director at Macquarie prior to retiring from banking in 2012.
After leaving the banking industry Craig consulted to the corporate and government sector and has been actively involved in the not-for-profit sector.
He has had a number of board and committee roles including Microequities Asset Management Ltd and The Sydney Institute. He currently sits on the board of Riverina Fresh and is Chair of The Jewish Care Foundation.
