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Indian Angel Network launches IAN Impact for social enterprises; to invest up to $333K in 6 firms per year
Indian Angel Network (IAN), a national network of angel investors investing in startups and early-stage ventures, has formed a sub-group called IAN Impact, which will focus on social enterprises addressing the problems of people living at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Ronnie Screwvala puts profit first in social impact ventures
Ronnie Screwvala, the managing director of Walt Disney India, logs in 70 hours a week for the entertainment company and yet devotes 10-15 hours to philanthropy and social impact businesses. "Whatever one makes from the business, 10-15% should always go back to society," he says.
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Q&A With Social Impact Investing Pioneer Andy Kuper
LeapFrog, the private equity firm founded by Andrew Kuper and Jim Roth, raises money to invest in “purpose-driven” businesses—businesses that have a social impact as well as delivering healthy economic returns. The firm's chosen field is micro-insurance and its first fund, which closed in 2010, is now almost fully invested in companies “up the value chain” of the insurance industry in Asia and Africa.
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Does Impact Investing Work? Vital Capital Case Study Shows It Does
When General Wesley K. Clark first heard about the idea of impact investing, he was skeptical. One trip to Angola convinced him that it had the potential to lift people out of poverty in ways that philanthropy and humanitarian aid could not. “This is the only way it will work,” he told me.
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Impact Investors (Should Be) Risk Takers: Does impact investing have a lower risk tolerance than venture capital?
While trying to solve the impact investing “do good while doing well” paradox we have landed in a risk adverse approach. Finding the solution to this paradox requires innovation and innovation implies risk taking. But can we call ourselves impact investors if we are not willing to take the necessary risks required to innovate?
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Talent is Key: (With video) Omidyar Network shares lessons learned from the impact Investing field (Pt 4)
At Omidyar Network, our first insight was about the value of seeking strong and experienced for-profit investment professionals. Our early impact investing efforts were executed occasionally by foundation staff accustomed to only making grants; it was difficult in such circumstances to execute on for-profit, venture-oriented deals. Omidyar Network Managing Partner Matt Bannick touches on the critical role of talent in impact investing.
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Hedge Fund Managers Don Hairshirts and ‘Impact Investing’ at Monaco Meet
Hedge funds, once seen as a quick route to riches for managers and investors alike, are trying to reinvent themselves as more socially conscious and make money all the same.
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An Investment Strategy in the Human Interest
You are a health official in Uganda, and you’re watching a crisis unfold. Your people have long suffered from epidemics of sleeping sickness, one of Africa’s biggest killers. There is no vaccine and the only treatment is protracted and painful. Sleeping sickness, transmitted by the tsetse fly, is carried by cattle and also kills cattle, destroying the livelihoods of families who keep them.
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