CrossBoundary Group
CrossBoundary Group is a mission driven investment and advisory firm dedicated to unlocking the power of capital for sustainable growth and strong returns in underserved markets. CrossBoundary Advisory has advised on over US$12 billion of closed transactions in underserved markets across a broad range of impactful sectors, including agriculture, health, education, manufacturing, ICT, and infrastructure. Our investment platforms drive impact by directly deploying capital. CrossBoundary Energy develops, owns, and operates distributed renewable energy solutions for businesses, offering cheaper and cleaner energy through power purchase and lease agreements. CrossBoundary Access uses blended finance and an innovative project financing structure to unlock capital for mini-grids with a mission to bring electricity for the first time to more than 1 million people. CrossBoundary Real Estate seeks to provide affordable housing and related infrastructure in East Africa. The Fund for Nature is scaling investment into nature-based solutions in emerging and frontier markets.
Voting member: Christy Sisko
Member since 2021
Meet a member: CrossBoundary Group
Updated November, 2025
What impact has your recent work led to that you are most proud of?
We are most proud of helping capital reach underserved markets across our 25 different offices. We believe that well-structured, and oftentimes blended capital can catalyze systemic change in overlooked markets, driving both financial performance and sustainable impact.
To date, our teams have closed over US$1.1 billion in transactions through our advisory and investment platforms across numerous sectors such as renewable energy, infrastructure, agribusiness, financial services, healthcare, and technology.
Some of our most exciting work includes our partnership with BII and FMO on the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA) – a DFI led platform scaling investment in fragile African states. With local teams across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin, Ethiopia, and DRC, we have mobilized over US$55 million, recently expanding to Togo and Guinea.
In Ghana, we lead the BRIDGE-In Agriculture programme with the Mastercard Foundation – a five-year initiative unlocking affordable finance for SMEs in agriculture and adjacent sectors. With a target to impact 400,000+ young people, create and sustain 140,000+ jobs, and train 60,000 youth (70% women), BRIDGE is driving financial inclusion, gender equity, and dignified work at scale.
In parallel, we are helping make nature investable through our Natural Capital practice, which has supported 80+ nature and agriculture transactions across 21 countries, mobilizing over US$600 million. Most recently, our PLANETA initiative in Mozambique helped unlock US$6.4 million for high-integrity carbon projects, leveraging three dollars of private capital for every donor dollar and mobilizing capital for Africa’s largest blue carbon restoration project.
What challenges and barriers are you working on addressing?
We work in frontier and emerging markets where opportunities are immense, but capital gaps are wide. A core challenge is blending public and private finance effectively to unlock investment in sectors with strong potential for development and returns, but high perceived risk. In many cases access to affordable capital is limited more by market inefficiencies and investor risk perceptions than by lack of capital availability.
We design and deliver innovative blended-finance structures that align incentives and share risks, attracting commercial capital to fragile and climate-vulnerable economies, particularly in agriculture, healthcare and renewable energy. For example, the Caribbean Community Resilience Fund (CCRF), sponsored by @CARICOM Development Fund and managed by @Sygnus Group, aims to help Caribbean economies mitigate and adapt to adverse economic shocks and vulnerabilities to climate-related disasters. CrossBoundary structured the fund to mobilize local institutional capital from pension funds and insurers, and fill financing gaps for businesses and projects operating in key resilience sectors. The Fund will continue to shape the Caribbean's impact capital markets and strengthen the region's long term resiliency.We are equally proud of our commitment to local leadership. Over 85 percent of our team members are based in, and mostly from, the markets where we operate. This locally anchored model deepens understanding, enhances capital deployment, and strengthens local capacity and financial ecosystems.
Another persistent barrier is data scarcity and market opacity. Without credible data, investors struggle to assess risk, price opportunity, or design appropriate instruments. CrossBoundary addresses this through advanced data analytics, impact measurement frameworks, and deep on-the-ground intelligence – turning information asymmetry into investable insight.
Finally, we are strengthening local financial ecosystems by convening investors, governments, and entrepreneurs to co-create pipelines of viable, high-impact projects. Our aim is to make blended finance a norm for scalable, inclusive growth.
What is your call to action for our membership?
CAFIID members have a vital role to play in bridging the gap between capital and context. Our call to action is threefold:
Partner to align capital and impact. Collaboration can take many forms including co-investing, sharing data, or co-developing structures that blend public purpose with private discipline. CAFIID members can help scale solutions that deliver measurable outcomes for markets, communities, and nature alike.
Champion transparency and shared learning. By pooling insights and data on what works, we can reduce transaction costs and replicate successful models.
Mobilize catalytic capital. Whether through first-loss facilities, outcome-based financing, or concessional debt, CAFIID members can help channel flexible, risk-tolerant capital to where it is most needed – and most transformative.
Together, we can shift risk perceptions and unlock investment for communities on the margins of global finance.
What are you looking forward to in the coming months?
We are in an exciting phase of expansion particularly in the climate and natural capital space. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific and Africa, CrossBoundary teams are deepening partnerships that expand access to capital for climate-positive and inclusive enterprises. We are looking forward to engagements under the GCF Readiness Support and Project Preparation Facility, helping accredited entities unlock and deploy GCF funding for high-impact climate investments.
As we look ahead, we are inspired by this community’s shared ambition: to ensure that every dollar deployed in frontier markets contributes not only to financial return, but to a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient global economy.