Unlike a post made on this blog on April 1 of last year, this post actually does confirm I have indeed moved on from investment banking to pursue new opportunities. Specifically, I decided earlier this year to join a venture capital firm here in New York City and just had my first day on the job [...]
Entries Tagged as 'socent'
Moving On, For Real!
August 16th, 2011 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent, tech
Tags:fintech·New York·New York City·New York City Investment Fund·NYC·NYCIF·socent·tech·VC·venture capital
D.light Design Raises New Venture Funding
June 24th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
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 [...]
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
All Entrepreneurship is Social. Or is It?
April 12th, 2010 · View Comments · socent
In a recent article from Stanford Social Innovation Review, Carl Schram made the assertion that “All Entrepreneurship Is Social.” To wit: “Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the traditional boundaries between the for-profit [...]
Tags:Carl Schram·Chris Dixon·entrepreneurship·socent·social entrepreneurship·SSIR
A New Paradigm of Investing
April 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
Just a few weeks ago, I received a call from a friend I met through StartingBloc, Kim Scheinberg. We had only briefly met before, so I was very honored to be on the receiving end of a phone call from her about a new project she was working on, one that was directly in the [...]
Tags:angel investing·Kim Scheinberg·Presumed Abundance·Rafe Furst·socent·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·venture capital
The Value of the VC Model for Social Enterprises
March 29th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
This past weekend was the second installment of the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation (held at NYU again), and it has been a great experience once again, especially as it relates to the refining of some of my previous thoughts regarding “social venture capital” and what value-add it has to the existing world of (mainly [...]
Tags:socent·social enterprise·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·VC·venture capital
Send MESS Express to the Unreasonable Institute!
March 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent
This past weekend at the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, I met Matt Kochman, who is the founder of a social venture start-up called M.E.S.S. Express, or “Moving Every Student Safely.” Started at Cornell, where Kochman used to be a student, M.E.S.S. Express is a company whose goal is to provide prepaid transportation plans for [...]
Tags:Matt Kochman·MESS Express·socent·social entrepreneurship·StartingBloc·Unreasonable Institute
StartingBloc Insights into Socent and Social VC
March 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, socent
This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation conference in New York as a StartingBloc Fellow for 2010. The conference will continue on March 27th and conclude on the 28th, but already it’s been hugely insightful for me as someone interested in the intersection of social entrepreneurship and [...]
Tags:Change.org·City Light Capital·Good Capital·Josh Cohen·Kevin Doyle·nathaniel Whittemore·socent·social entrepreneurship·social venture capital·StartingBloc
