AP2 announces $30mm investment in the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility, Goldman Sachs 10,000 women and IFC
First-ever global finance facility to help close the global credit gap for womenThe Second Swedish National Pension Fund, AP2, is taking yet another important step in the field of sustainability and today announced a $30MM investment in the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (WEOF), the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) partnership to increase access to capital for women entrepreneurs. Launched in 2014, the first-of-its-kind $600 million finance Facility aims to spur lending in developing countries to help close an estimated $285 billion global