Alan S. Gutterman

Launching and Managing an Impact Venture Capital Fund: A Guide for Fund Managers and Sustainable Entrepreneurs (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Entrepreneurs, and the new ventures they lead, have been recognized as major engines for the creation of sustainable products and processes that can be used to solve many difficult social and environmental problems. Since venture capitalists focus on nurturing entrepreneurship and new ventures, they have an important role in the development, growth and maturation of these sustainable businesses. Venture capital is well suited to the inherent riskiness and longer evolution cycles of sustainable startups: they specialize in identifying and investing in riskier businesses, companies that banks and traditional private equity firms are reluctant to support until they are further along in the development of their technologies and products, and working with them to grow faster, create more value and generate more employment and innovation over an extended period of time. This book focuses on an emerging subset of venture capital firms that practice impact investing (i.e., investing made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return). These sustainable, or impact, venture capital funds make investments in technologies, processes or products with positive environmental, social and economic outcome and direct their investment activities and support on small-scale, young firms with excellent development capabilities that can deliver triple bottom line results. The book begins with an overview of impact investment and then dives into the practical "nuts and bolts" of practicing impact venture capital and launching and managing an impact venture capital fund. The book also discusses the process of "doing the deal" with investees and incorporating impact investment principles into contracts and post-investment relationships. The critical role of impact measurement, management and reporting is also discussed. The work is intended to demonstrate how the impact venture capital sector can fulfill its promise as important contributor to developing and implementing innovative and financially viable solutions to achieve society's aspirations for sustainable development and progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Project
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227643742
• Artikelnr.: 72409328

Autorenporträt

This book was written by Alan S. Gutterman, whose prolific output of practical guidance and tools for legal and financial professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, and investors has made him one of the best-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace. Alan has authored or edited over 300 book-length works on entrepreneurship, business law and transactions, sustainability, impact investment, business and human rights and corporate social responsibility, civil and human rights of older persons, and international business for several publishers including Thomson Reuters, Practical Law, Kluwer, Aspatore, Oxford, Quorum, ABA Press, Aspen, Sweet & Maxwell, Euromoney, Business Expert Press, Harvard Business Publishing, CCH, and BNA. His cornerstone work, Business Transactions Solution, is an online-only product available and featured on Thomson Reuters' Westlaw, the world's largest legal content platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of a business. Alan has extensive experience as a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large business enterprises, and has also held senior management positions with several technology-based businesses including service as the chief legal officer of a leading international distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and as the chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company. He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, and he has also launched and oversees projects relating to promoting the civil and human rights of older persons and a human rights-based approach to entrepreneurship. He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and he is also a Credentialed Professional Gerontologist (CPG). For more information about Alan and his activities, please contact him directly at [e-mail], follow him on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangutterman/), and visit his personal website at www.alangutterman.com to view a comprehensive listing of his works and subscribe to receive updates. Many of Alan's research papers and other publications are also available through SSRN and Google Scholar.