by Bridgespan Social Impact | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured, Impact Investing, Publications
Mainstream venture capital (VC) funds are beginning to look for a new kind of unicorn—companies that will not only provide huge financial returns, but also create huge social impact. Investors are directing increasing amounts of capital to these funds. TechCrunch...
by Miriam Rose | Oct 7, 2020 | Financial Sustainability, Impact Investing, Publications
Executive Summary India’s impact enterprises, a growing number of companies striving for social benefit and profit, have a debt problem: Not too much, but too little. They need borrowed money to fuel the growth that will advance their social or environmental goals....
by Miriam Rose | Sep 23, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications
Executive Summary The rapid growth of impact investing has brought new energy to the conversation about harnessing capital for social uplift. Impact investment has grown from a niche asset class to $715 billion of investments that seek both social impact and financial...
by Miriam Rose | Aug 1, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications
Not long ago, impact investing was a tricky sell. “There was a sense that there was a trade-off between positive impact and financial return,” Maya Chorengel, co-managing partner of The Rise Fund, explains. In 2016, private equity firm TPG set out to prove...
by Miriam Rose | Apr 9, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications
EverFi, a decade-old social enterprise providing online education and training, experienced the rigors of evidence-based impact investing firsthand when it received an equity investment from The Rise Fund. A $2-billion impact fund created by private equity firm TPG,...
by Miriam Rose | Mar 27, 2020 | Impact Investing, Publications
The unfolding human and economic toll from COVID-19 poses an enormous challenge to all businesses, large and small. A recent Dun & Bradstreet report found 94 percent of Fortune 1,000 companies are experiencing supply chain delays. Around the world, small...
