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Since 2017, BII has deployed $18 million across New England through flexible debt and equity financing to businesses, cooperatives, and real estate projects.
Directly from Our Portfolio
Maven Construction
Maven Construction is a registered woman-owned, and minority-owned full-service general contracting firm that provides at-risk construction management services to municipal, institutional and private clients. In 2018, BII Fund provided project finance to support an energy efficiency project with Howard University.
Meetcaregivers, Inc.
Meetcaregivers connects families seeking at home care providers with pre-screed and qualified caregivers using technology enabled services to make the process safe and easy for families and clinicians. Meetcaregivers’ technology uses a match feature algorithm to ensure the right fit for client and clinicians. BII has made an investment in Meetcaregivers out of both Fund I and Fund II.
MentorWorks
MentorWorks is a platform that helps to originate and facilitate Income Share Agreements (ISAs). They were among the first platforms to provide income-share based education financing coupled with career mentorship. In 2020, BII committed invested in MentorWorks through a special funding vehicle (SPV), enabling the company to fund the higher education of students, primarily of color, who are attending community colleges or enrolled in technical training programs in Boston.
Nuevo Dia ADHC
Nuevo Día is a Latino- and woman-owned facility that seeks to help low-income seniors and disabled people in Boston remain as independent and as healthy as possible in a culturally competent environment. The vision of this organization is to be the leading Adult Day Health program serving the Latino community in Greater Boston.
Quality Interactions
Quality Interactions is an e-learning platform that provides cultural competency training for healthcare professionals to decrease health disparities. It helps healthcare providers improve the quality of patient care by helping them to recognize and address unconscious bias. Their platform enables providers to communicate effectively with patients of all cultural backgrounds, including people of color, immigrants, people whose first language is not English, and LGBTQI+ patients, as well as those who are uninsured.
Rabbit Hole Housing Cooperative
Rabbit Hole Housing Cooperative (RHH) is a group-equity housing cooperative in Portland, Maine, dedicated to providing affordable, safe, and welcoming housing for the queer and transgender community. RHH operates under democratic governance using Sociocracy 3.0 principles, with four councils (Organizing, Finance, Membership & Events, and Maintenance) that ensure all affected members participate in decision-making. The cooperative features a low share buy-in paid over 12 months, making membership accessible while building collective ownership. In 2025, BII provided acquisition financing to support RHH's purchase of a 7,215 square foot property with capacity for 8-9 bedrooms that will serve founding members and future…
Roundhead Brewing Co.
Roundhead Brewing is the first Latino-owned craft brewery in the Boston area. The brewery sells a variety of craft beers and fresh pizza in the taproom and serves as a community space, hosting events with local partners and musicians at the brewery and around Boston. Roundhead Brewing also supports its workers by creating career pathways and paying a living wage, instead of sub-minimum, tipped wages. In 2021, Fund I provided a term loan as part of a larger equipment financing facility in partnership with RSF Social Finance to purchase electric brewing equipment.
Sign-Speak
Sign-Speak is an innovative technology company seeking to bridge the communication divide for the 48 million Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) individuals in the United States. Its technology tracks American Sign Language (ASL) users as they sign with a camera on a computing device and transcribes and translates in real-time to facilitate conversation with someone who only speaks English. This technology can also translate and transcribe back into ASL. The Sign-Speak founding team includes a deaf software engineer and has developed solutions for websites, in-person contact, and automated environments.
Solomon Group
Is a strategic communications and consulting firm working with public and private initiatives that uses data to market clean energy programs to disadvantaged communities. Given their experience in the space, Solomon Group can provide data-driven insights on sub-segments of the population, with particular emphasis on historically disadvantaged communities.
Somerville Community Corporation
Somerville Community Corporation offers services and leads community organizing that support low- and moderate- income residents to increase economic sustainability and civic participation. SCC partners with local developers, foundations, lenders, the City of Somerville, and community organizations, serving as a nexus for multi-stakeholder relationships.
Sunwealth
Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm dedicated to finance high-performing commercial solar projects through the sale of investment products to accredited investors. Their goal is to accelerate capital into communities underserved by traditional solar financing. BII has made several investments in Sunwealth over the years out of the LLC, Fund I and Fund II.
Synergy Contracting, Inc
Synergy Contracting (Synergy) is a fully bonded, unionized, Latina, women-owned construction company specializing in Environmental Remediation, Demolition, and Cleaning Construction Services, headquartered in Boston, MA. In addition to the services provided, they offer accelerator programs to build knowledge and education in the construction space.
TARTTs Day Care
At the time of BII’s original investment, TARTTs Day Care was family-owned business that provided quality childcare services for children ages two months to five years. Founded by African-American nurse Bessie Tartt Wilson in 1946, the company was run by second, third, and forth generation family members whose aim was to provide a high-quality, well-rounded curriculum that enriches its children’s and families’ lives. TARTTs was acquired by a competitor in 2024 who retained all existing employees and is carrying forward TARTTs’ legacy. In 2019, Fund I made a loan for operational expenses of establishing a new center.
Valley Home Insulation
Valley Home Insulation offers residential insulation and weatherization services in Lawrence and the surrounding Merrimack Valley. Following the 2018 gas explosions, Columbia Gas offered 100% reimbursement for insulation and weatherization services on all homes it serves in the Merrimack Valley through the end of 2020. VHI leverages cultural competency and community presence to provide these services to low- and moderate-income residents of this region.
Wash Cycle Laundry
WashyCycle is a commercial laundry company with locations in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC, committed to creating living-wage jobs and second chances for people overcoming histories of incarceration,homelessness, substance use, long-term unemployment, use of public benefits, and more.
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