Social Impact Week, Investing in Early-Stage Technology for Financial Resilience and Economic Mobility
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Thu, Feb 27, 2025
12:30 PM – 2 PM EST (GMT-5)
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Investing in Early-Stage Technology for Financial Resilience and Economic Mobility
Join us for a dynamic panel featuring impact investing leaders from ResilienceVC and Equal Opportunity Ventures. Learn how these impact VCs invest in early-stage technology companies to build financial resilience, drive economic mobility, and deliver market-rate returns.
Speakers:
- Kate Cummings, Partner at Equal Opportunity Ventures
- Vikas Raj ’10, Co-founder & Managing Partner of ResilienceVC; Adjunct Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
- Moderated by Dan Wang, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise in the Faculty of Business and Co-Director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School
About Social Impact Week
The Social Enterprise Club (SEC) organizes a week of social impact-related events for the Business School community. Student organizers partner with peer clubs at the School to showcase social impact in various industries. The event ends with the “Social Impact Cluster Auction Night,” which is a student-led fundraising night for Social and Environmental Summer Fellows (SESF).
Social Impact Week Programming
Click here to see the full week of events with QR Codes to register. Lunch provided with RSVP.
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As part of your event registration, we’d like to remind you of your commitment to uphold the CBS Core Culture and Honor Code. This includes participating respectfully and upholding the CBS standards of engagement, responsibility, and professionalism before, during, and after the program. Additionally, please note that while we love to provide our students with meals as part of our programming, we ask non-attendees to wait until the event is over to enjoy our food. All leftovers will be announced via the ‘Scavengers’ Slack channel. Thank you!
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Co-hosted with: Social Enterprise Club