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Abhijit Ray: ‘There is a yawning gap in early stage impact investing in India’
Five days ago, India’s largest angel investing group, the Indian Angel Network, started a fund focused solely on socially relevant enterprises, with its first investment in Gram Vaani, a community radio enterprise based out of Delhi. Last year, about $151 million (about Rs 902 crore) was invested in social ventures across India, marking the rise of serious interest in the space of social investment, both from mainstream and sector investors.
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Crowdfunding Power: Solving Climate Change and Other Community Needs
Crowdfunding could be an incredibly powerful way to deliver a decentralised energy system.
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A Social Enterprise Keeps On Making Mistakes–And Learning From Them
Like any regular old startup, social enterprises make plenty of mistakes. You may recall Zack Rosenberg and his DoGoodBuyUs.com, which I wrote about recently and which got its first break thanks to a mistake.
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14 Scalable Social Enterprises
Depending on who you ask and what their specific definition of social enterprise is, they may say that "scalable social enterprises" are redundant because all social enterprises should be able to scale.
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Can Financial Markets Be Good?
In the Impact Investing industry we have been agreeing-to-disagree for a while now. The debate tends to take the form of investment priorities: financial-first vs. impact-first. Do you prioritize financial impact or do you prioritize social impact? I will argue that this debate is irrelevant and is an example of what Jed Emerson calls bifurcated thinking.
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Are social stock exchanges the great equalizer of development finance?
This past June, the world was introduced to two social stock exchanges.
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A Social Entrepreneur Transforms a Nonprofit Into a Profit-Making Enterprise
Last week, we published a case study about a social entrepreneur, Saul Garlick, discussing what kind of legal structure would be best for his enterprise, ThinkImpact, which encourages entrepreneurship in third-world communities. He fundamentally had three options: continue as a nonprofit, go commercial, or find some sort of hybrid route.
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Indian Angel Network launches IAN Impact for social enterprises; to invest up to $333K in 6 firms per year
Indian Angel Network (IAN), a national network of angel investors investing in startups and early-stage ventures, has formed a sub-group called IAN Impact, which will focus on social enterprises addressing the problems of people living at the bottom of the pyramid.
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