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My review of the Shared Earnings Agreement (or SEAL), a new form of startup financing authored & open-sourced by Earnest Capital.

“Funds for bootstrappers” show venture is not the only way

The Framing Makes the Field – How we research gender lens investing matters By Arianna Muirow   Observing the chaos caused by the recent polarization of news and obfuscation of “facts,” we are…

This report highlights how traditional debt and equity financing structures often fail to adequately meet the needs of early-stage impact enterprises. It examines the pain points for both investors and entrepreneurs around traditional structures and the need for innovative instruments, provides exam

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2021--WXR Fund, the first ever venture fund investing exclusively in women in the XR and AI spaces, announces the close of its inaugural fund at $5 million.

A recorded webinar on Aunnie's new book, Adventure Finance, with Zebras Unite.

Fund managers from Fair Food Network, Homestake Venture Partners, Flexible Capital Fund, Kachuwa Impact Fund, and Mission Driven Finance engage in a lively discussion about creative financing and integrated capital strategies. Moderated by Esther Park, CEO of Cienega Capital. Password: tThOy6!!

Lightspeed's Amy Wu offers useful advice for developers and studios seeking investment partners

Every week, the phones of more than two dozen current and former Shopify employees ping with alerts for a new group chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app. The chat—dubbed Shopify Angels by its participants—has become a gathering spot for a new generation of investors connected through ...

List of members of TIIP.

(Not out yet!) A study commissioned by the Investment Readiness Program to inform the implementation of the Canada social finance strategy by identifying gaps and opportunities for impact investment intermediaries.

Social innovation and social finance

The McConnell Foundation uses impact investing alongside traditional granting to generate measurable social and environmental impact and financial return.

The people contributing their work, their data, and their imagination to make technology valuable should receive value in return. All of us, no matter what we contribute, should benefit because a truly distributed web should be a commons for everyone.

The Equitable Economy Fund is an equity fund designed to provide capital that can accelerate cooperatively owned and shared ownership companies, while also providing a financial return to investors. One investment buys a diversified portfolio of multiple cooperatives and shared ownership companies, with focused follow-on capital to the best companies.  The objective of the fund … Continue reading The Equitable Economy Fund →

After over 18 months of fundraising (primarily in a global pandemic and over Meets, Zooms, Teams, and the occasional Webex), we are excited…

Based in Colorado, Kachuwa Impact Fund (pronounced KAW-choo-wuh) is an investment cooperative and public benefit corporation focused on owning and operating “impact real estate” and investing in privately held “impact companies.”

Lack of access to capital is a longstanding and well-known barrier to equity for communities of color and women, but overcoming systemic injustices will take more than moving money. How investments are made, and the power dynamics behind those decisions, need to change, too.

Times like these are difficult, but they're also an opportunity to organize efforts to lift up our communities.

Ampled co-founder Austin Robey and researcher Danny Spitzberg on what’s possible with cooperative business models—especially when applied to the web.