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Sustainable venture funds and investor networks and other sources of capital for sustainable ventures.
Featured Venture Funds and funding sources (have their own profile pages on this site):
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…Since our inception in 1992, over $111 million has been invested by Investors’ Circle members into 182 companies or small venture funds.
In 2002, the IC Foundation collaborated with Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company to conduct a study of the financial returns on $72 million of IC member investments over 10 years. The HBS/McKinsey study found that treated as a hypothetical portfolio, companies invested in through IC generated a 5% and a 14% return, based respectively on a buy-and-hold strategy or on an “additional round investment and liquidation after lock-up” strategy. The study included data from 110 IC member investments. The study was published in Stanford’s Journal of Social Innovation, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, The Hard Numbers on Social Investments, and the McKinsey Quarterly, A Halo for Angel Investors.
Behind these numbers are stories of risk-taking entrepreneurs pioneering the transition to a sustainable economy: ZipCar and Verdant Power and Energía Global, CitySoft and Niman Ranch, Aquafuture and Agraquest, Quitnet and Healthshop.com, IceStone and Just Desserts and Voxiva, Sonix Innovations and Solstice Capital and Evergreen Solar, Seahorse Power and Honest Tea, Wild Planet Toys and Fran’s Healthy Helpings, Guayaki and Coyuchi, United Villages, La Gray Chemical and Dragonfly Media, Pura Vida Coffee and Recycline and Precision Farming.
“Investors’ Circle is a wonderful, diverse group of investors looking
to promote innovative businesses with socially responsive goals.
It has led me to good people, good ideas, good growth and good times.”
—Ann Partlow, Earthrise Capital, & formerly Rockefeller & Co.