Aruna invited by Deal Street Asia to Discusses Impact Investment Trends at the PE-VC Summit 2022

Wallich, Singapore – On Tuesday, 27 September 2022, Aruna was exclusively invited by Deal Street Asia to be one of the speakers at the PE-VC Summit 2022, a noteworthy Deal Street Asia event that invited dozens of global speakers from various industry sectors, which was held in Singapore. Represented by Utari Octavianty, Aruna’s Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer, Aruna shared the stage with Heritas Capital, BlueOrchard Finance, and KKR & Co. Inc. to discuss “Scaling Impact through Private Capital”. The session was hosted by Michelle Teo, Managing Director of Deal Street Asia.

The growing public awareness of the concept and implementation of sustainability has created an impact on businesses initiated by communities, governments, shareholders, financial institutions, and even employees. In the “Scaling Impact through Private Capital” session, Aruna revealed that profit cannot be the only priority. Aruna believes that business people also need to have full responsibility regarding the method or how their business is carried out. In this era, the positive impact on society is one of the important points that must be considered by every business person.

In fact, the impact of investment is not only measured by financial performance, but also how an organization can make a positive contribution to society. The existence of an investment market then provides various opportunities for investors to contribute to social and environmental problems through investment, while still working to get a financial return. Aruna, Heritas Capital, BlueOrchard Finance, and KKR & Co. Inc. agreed that today’s investors, customers, and employees would be happy to contribute to products or services that seek to help other sectors.

At the opening of PE-VC Summit 2022, Joji Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of DealStreetAsia, said, “PE-VC 2022 wants to help investors and actors in unicorn companies, startups and VCs to be able to understand each other’s perspectives, so that together we can mitigate risks that may occur in investing in emerging markets and newer or non-traditional business modelsㅡ both from technical strategies and their implementation, governance and public regulations, as well as maintaining community development. Every element should be seen from an interdisciplinary perspective.”

Utari Octavianty, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability of Aruna, said in her session, “Our mission is to make the sea a better livelihood for all. To implement it, we also focus on impact-related business practices. Therefore, we also take care of the ‘People’, ‘Profit’ and ‘Planet’ factors. When ‘People’ have a more adequate understanding of the importance of sustainability, for example, and they have got the ideal ‘Profit’, that’s when ‘Planet’ will also have a positive impact. Continue to measure impact by defining performance frameworks and metrics so that we can better understand the attribution of the business we do.”