At the Blue Earth Forum, Sophie Bidwell joined a panel focused on the question: What makes a good impact investment?
Here are some of our key takeaways from the chat:
💸 The wording sometimes is not helpful – when we say impact investing, we put that kind of investing into a different bucket, but eventually, they will converge – Sophie Bidwell (Springwise, Capital D, RE_SET)
🚀 Impact businesses will need to work on educating as well as raising funds when they speak to investors – Alexandra Smith (The Sustainability Group)
🌱 A black founder is twice as likely to create a mission-oriented proposition, but there are historic and systemic boundaries to black founders in our venture ecosystem – Karl Lokko (Black Seed VC)
📈 Impact investors must show that it’s possible to have an impact and financial returns – not just one or the other…Impact investing should provide as much as, if not more, financial returns than traditional investing – Sophie Bidwell
