Wow, it’s been a great week for the world of social venture capital and impact investing! First we get the news that IGNIA has closed on its first fund, and today, we receive news that D.light Design has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding from Omidyar Network, plus all of its major Series A [...]
Entries from June 24th, 2010
D.light Design Raises New Venture Funding
June 24th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
Tags:Acumen Fund·D.light·DFJ Frontier·Draper Fisher Jurvetson·Garage Technology Ventures·Gray Matters Capital·impact investing·Nexus Venture Partners·socent·social venture capital·VC·venture capital·venture philanthropy
IGNIA, a Social VC Firm, Closes its First Fund
June 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
If you’ve followed this blog for awhile (or just thought about this blog’s URL) you probably know that one of my passions is the intersection of investing and social impact. I’ve written at length about what I learned about for-profit social entrepreneurship from Nathaniel Whittemore and StartingBloc, new incubation initiatives like the Unreasonable Institute, why [...]
Tags:base of the pyramid·BoP·Ignia·impact investing·JP Morgan·Omidyar·rockefeller·social entrepreneurship·social VC·Soros·venture capital
Why U.S. Billionaires Should Create a Social PE Firm
June 18th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
If you read CNN.com or the Wall Street Journal, you’ve likely run across a headline this week about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (who have already given away a significant portion of their fortunes) issuing a challenge to the wealthiest individuals to do the same and give away 50% of their wealth. This challenge, called [...]
Tags:Berkshire Hathaway·Bill Gates·Gates Foundation·Giving Pledge·Melinda Gates·Microsoft·PE·private equity·social entrepreneurship·VC·venture capital·Warren Buffett
Lessons from Netflix
June 14th, 2010 · View Comments · tech
Over the past couple of weeks, people across the web have been raving about the internal deck from Netflix that details the company’s view on its strategic direction for the future. In my opinion, this is not only because of Netflix’s incredible openness in sharing its strategy but also because it also tells a great [...]
Anonymity on the Web
June 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
This past week, I’ve run across a couple of blog posts talking about anonymity on the web, especially as it pertains to the expression of opinions (whether through comments, message board posts, or mediums of online expression). James D. Robinson III of RRE Ventures linked to a post (including a video) entitled “Are the Trolls [...]
Tags:anonymity·anonymous·Chris Dixon·Formspring·GRP·James D. Robinson III·Mark Suster·RRE·troll
