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We’ve got an extra-special episode for you today. Not just because we’re speaking with an extraordinary guest, but because we’ve partnered with Junxion Strategy to produce a three-part series, profiling the celebrated, annual Social Venture Institute. SVI is now a 31-year tradition that has supported thousands of social entrepreneurs through learning, enterprise development, peer support, and an incredible network that reaches across North America and around the globe. This year’s SVI will run September 23-27 and will, as always, be hosted at Hollyhock, on breathtaking Cortes Island, British Columbia.
One of the speakers at SVI will be Edward Dugger III, founder and Managing Partner of Reinventure Capital.The Boston-based impact venture capital firm invests in Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and women founders who are building profitable, mission-aligned businesses.
Ed has a powerful and inspirational story. And we’ll hear it next.
Welcome to In the Business of Change, where we speak with social entrepreneurs impacting their communities and the world. I’m your host Elisa Birnbaum publisher and editor in chief of SEE Change Magazine.
On today’s episode I’m excited to have a co-host, Mike Rowlands, partner & CEO of Junxion Strategy, sponsor of our three-part series celebrating the Social Venture Institute. Mike and I will be chatting with Ed Dugger III, founding partner and president of Reinventure Capital and an early pioneer of impact investing, well before that trendy term even took root.
We’ll discuss Ed’s circuitous career trajectory – and what brought him full circle to founding a venture capital firm that focuses on overlooked founders historically excluded by traditional investors. Ed discusses the firm’s unique strategy, the entrepreneurs they support and the challenges he faces each day. He then shares how his family history – and what he refers to as ‘knowing the shoulders upon which he stands’ – informs and inspires his vision of what’s possible.
Listen. Enjoy. Learn. Share.