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Our Vision

Regenerative Capital for a Regenerative Earth

Systems Impact Multi-Family Office

Why systems change?

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and avert climate change, we need transformational change, not incremental change.

This systems change requires us to transcend the dominant paradigms and reset the purpose at the heart of our interconnected economic, social, and political systems...

To align each so that it regenerates people & planet.

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United States
Featured Project
United States
35
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Moldova
Featured Project
Moldova
47
28.9
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La Paz, Mexico
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La Paz, Mexico
24.1
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New York, New York, USA
40.7
-74.0
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23.8
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Colorado, USA
38.8
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Oxford, United Kingdom
51.8
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
42.4
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Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
8.6
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Taipei, Taiwan
25
121.6

Our impact projects

Climate

Strengthening the “soft” architecture needed to achieve goal-aligned climate action.

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Education

Cultivating systems thinkers that design future pathways through 21st century challenges.

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Culture

Building values-based communities that foster craftsmanship, sustainable consumption, and youth entrepreneurship.

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Finance

Build a community of impact investors that harnesses the power of regenerative finance for systems change.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to bring conveners, innovators and funders together to create transformational change towards a regenerative world through regenerative capital.

Our founders
Joe Hsueh

Joe Hsueh

CEO & Co-Founder

Joe is a passionate systems change strategist and ecosystem builder, who uses systems mapping to enable collective action.

He deferred his studies at Harvard in his twenties to spend a year soul-searching at a Buddhist monastery. Intrigued by systems thinking and complexity, he went on to pursue a PhD in system dynamics at MIT Sloan School of Management. Joe guides stakeholders through the process of system design, community building and blended finance for catalyzing large-scale systems change. He founded Omplexity, co-founded Academy for Systems Change, served as an advisor to Walton Family Foundation, World Economic Forum, and UNDP. Joe has participated in more than 60 systems change initiatives worldwide. Having witnessed many unintended consequences resulting from the fragmentation of granting and investments, Joe is on a mission to bring funders and change makers together to address humanity’s most pressing issues. He met Vincent in 2018, and the idea for SIMFO was born.

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Vincent Shen

Vincent Shen

Co-Founder & Chairman

Vincent is a passionate angel impact investor and philanthropist, using business to create a goodness society. 

He became a multimillionaire in his late twenties as Managing Director of Merrill Lynch’s Private Investment Banking Group covering the Greater China market. Following an early retirement from banking, Vincent co-founded several companies in various industries, supporting them from angel investment stage to IPO. He is an Archangel Investor in the Oxford Angels Network and holds an MBA from Oxford’s Saïd Business School. Vincent is on a mission to support social entrepreneurs to reach their highest potential. He works with them closely not only as an investor but a core business partner. He met Joe in 2018 and came to appreciate the need for systems thinking in order to achieve SDGs. They teamed up to create SIMFO, a systems-centric, crowd-based multi-family office and an ecosystems builder that integrates various stakeholders’ human, social, and financial capitals to regenerate people and the planet. 

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The SIMFO way

Methods

System Mapping
Stakeholder Dialogue
Leverage Point Analysis

Shared strategy

Outcomes

Shared Understanding of Root Causes
Shared Vision of the Future
Leverage Points for Collective Action

Methods

Learning Journey
Partnership Building
Network Building

Cross-sector Collaboration

Outcomes

Peer-learning Community
Cross-sector Collaboration
Deal Flows Targeting Leverage Points

Methods

Systems-lens Portfolio

Grants as R&D of nascent technology & awareness building

Blended Finance to reduce cost of capital & increase expected return of impact investment

Impact Evaluation

COLLECTIVE ACTION

Outcomes

Ecosystem Building
Regenerative Fund
Systems Change

The SIMFO way

Methods

System Mapping
Stakeholder Dialogue
Leverage Point Analysis

Shared strategy

Outcomes

Shared Understanding of Root Causes
Shared Vision of the Future
Leverage Points for Collective Action

Methods

Learning Journey
Partnership Building
Network Building

Cross-sector Collaboration

Outcomes

Peer-learning Community
Cross-sector Collaboration
Deal Flows Targeting Leverage Points

Methods

Systems-lens Portfolio

Grants as R&D of nascent technology & awareness building

Blended Finance to reduce cost of capital & increase expected return of impact investment

Impact Evaluation

COLLECTIVE ACTION

Outcomes

Ecosystem Building
Regenerative Fund
Systems Change

What is SIMFO?

We are a systems change company partnering with business, finance, civil society, and government to catalyze systems change towards a regenerative and inclusive economy.

We combine systems design, community building, and blended finance to help stakeholders shift from silo-thinking to collective action in climate change, systems education, creative culture, and regenerative finance.

Our Partners & Past Clients

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