Xigi.net
Several hundred leading practitioners around the world are at work in the emerging hybrid “blended value” investment space. xigi.net [1] xigi is pronounced “ziggy”) is an online platform for tracking the nature and amount of activity in this space, and the relationships between people, entities, and the deals they transact within it. xigi’s name is derived from zeitgeist. It seeks to provide a market discovery platform for a growing landscape of social enterprises, investment offerings and investors globally. It has an emphasis on private debt and equity deals, but extends into grant making and publicly traded markets. xigi is a creative commons where the investors, donors, leaders and entrepreneurs involved in these transactions all come together to house their collective market intelligence and thinking. xigi’s goal is to help this emerging market to grow by enabling the players within it to better understand the nature and scale of what is happening around them.