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This essential book provides a comprehensive overview of early-stage impact investing, discussing best practices and equipping readers with the resources to make effective investments that achieve financial returns and societal or environmental benefits.
The book's co-authors, who are academically trained and experienced impact investors, provide practical advice for purpose-driven startup investing. Each chapter delves into key topics such as setting investment criteria, sourcing deals, defining and measuring impact, structuring investments including setting valuation and determining investment terms, and portfolio management. The authors draw from a culmination of years of research, practice, and advising passionate founders of startups, emphasizing that impact investing will only continue to evolve as the field enters the mainstream. This book closes with a look forward to both the challenges and opportunities involved in impact investing.
Students and scholars focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation, and finance will find this book to be highly beneficial. Additionally, it is useful for investors that are new to early stage impact investing, as well as seasoned investors seeking to move into early stage impact investing.
Contents
Contents
Foreword viii
Preface xi
1 An introduction to impact investing 1
Brian Trelstad and Jennifer M. Walske
2 Investing in mission-drive startups 26
Jennifer M. Walske and Brian Trelstad
3 Measuring impact 59
Maoz (Michael) Brown and Jennifer M. Walske
4 Increasing diversity and overcoming bias 81
Katherine Klein
5 Sourcing and screening investment opportunities 105
Tasha Seitz and Tyler Wry
6 Business and impact due diligence 124
Tasha Seitz and Tyler Wry
7 Structuring investments and valuing companies 144
Tasha Seitz and Tyler Wry
8 Post-investment management and portfolio support 159
Brian Trelstad
9 The future of impact investing 176
Brian Trelstad, Jennifer Walske, Michael Brown, Tyler
Wry, Katherine Klein, and Witold Henisz
Glossary 199
