The latest trends and insights on impact entrepreneurship and investing.
Hi all!
Yonca: Last one in 2020… Personally, I’ve been deep-diving into financing alternatives for venture capital this year and I wanted to share some of my favourite resources with you!
Unicorns vs Zebras, exit to community, revenue-based financing, impact investing, convertible debt, we left no stone unturned :)
Tina: Wishing you all a happy end of the year and a wonderful 2021 in which light wins.
Yonca & Tina
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Today’s calls for ethical, humane, responsible, regulated and beneficial technology, compounded with venture capital’s virtue signaling in solidarity with Black lives, brings us to a critical…
Impact investors pass on enterprises with potential because the deals are too small to justify the effort. A new model works through intermediaries to get entrepreneurs the capital they need.
Impact investing was created to revolutionize capital markets. Instead, we are replicating them. This needs to change. The good news is, the structures …
At Big Society Capital, we believe that universities are uniquely positioned to help meet some of the growing needs of the social impact investment sector in the UK.
Earnest Capital is an early-stage investor in software and software-enabled companies. We invest via a new financing structure called a Shared Earnings Agreement which is very different from tradit…
Miki Reynolds is currently the Executive Director of Grid110, an early-stage startup accelerator and community development non-profit in Los Angeles. Grid110 partners with the Office of Los Angeles…
Uncapped, the London-headquartered and Warsaw-based startup that offers “revenue-based” finance to European businesses so that founders don’t have to give up equity stipulated by venture capital, has raised $26 million in new funding.
It’s part of structural inequality in our society, where we’re building businesses that are optimized for their financial return rather than their return to society.
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