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Stages of Social Enterprise Capital

Business Plan Blog

In order to increase access to more equity capital, social enterprises in an establishment stage can consider applying for a Program Related or Mission Related Investment from Mission Investors. Socially motivated lenders may be able to provide flexible or subordinate debt to a social enterprise.

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Venture Capital and Hedge Funds

BeyondVC

Well, there is clearly lots of money sloshing around in alternative assets like hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. In addition, I highlighted the blurring of hedge funds and private equity. Increasingly, hedge funds are moving just from private equity and now more aggressively into venture capital.