SOCAP17 - Why Grants Are Still a Critical Part of the Capital Spectrum for Development Innovations
Channel: SOCAP Global
Date: 13/10/2017

As impact investing begins to realize its promise of achieving impact using for-profit models, is there still a role for grant capital? Funders and investors discuss innovative ways they use grants and other forms of subsidized capital to catalyze support and financing for entrepreneurs by de-risking investment in nascent industries and for untested but potentially transformative new business models.

Victoria Fram
Managing Director
VilCap Investments
 
Chris Jurgens
Director - Impact Investing
Omidyar Network
 
Stephanie Kimber, MA International Development
Innovation Program Manager
innovationXchange, DFAT
 
Aun Rahman
Access to Finance Lead - infoDev
World Bank Group
 
Robert Schneider
Division Chief - Global Partnerhships
USAID

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SOCAP17 - At The Intersection of Money and Meaning
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
October 10-13, 2017