Yesterday, the National Venture Capital Association released VC fundraising figures for Q2 2010. The $1.9 billion raised in this past quarter represents a 56% drop from the $4.4 billion raised in the same period in 2009, and is the weakest fundraising experienced by the VC industry since Q3 2003. Dealbook reports on some commentary from [...]
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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
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
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
VC Free From Capital Gains Tax?
January 28th, 2010 · View Comments · VC
President Obama’s State of the Union address last night covered a wide variety of topics, from Wall Street regulation to healthcare reform to jobs creation and more. One of the most interesting snippets from last night, however, was a quote regarding capital gains taxes for small business investment, which I tweeted about as (potentially) being [...]
Tags:capital gains·Obama·State of the Union·taxation·VC·venture capital
VC and Entrepreneur Demographic Disparities
December 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · VC, socent
…………… In early October, Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital Partners wrote about the VC gender gap in the provocatively-titled “Are VCs Sexist?”, where he talked about only 5-10% of the VC industry being female, and only 25% of VC partnerships having a single woman partner. As a result, these barriers to these barriers to the [...]
Tags:demographics·gender·race·socent·social entrepreneurship·SSIR·Stanford·VC·venture capital
The GIIN and the Importance of Ecosystems
November 13th, 2009 · View Comments · VC, socent
In September of this year, the the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) launched at the Clinton Global Initiative. You can read the press release here. What is impact investing, you may ask? As GIIN explains, impact investing is “the use of for-profit investment to address social and environmental problems.” If your first thought is that [...]
