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Balancing act: The growing importance of delivering both financial returns and measurable social and environmental outcomes

Private Equity Wire

As such, we prioritise investing in companies with technology offerings that have the potential to generate a life improvement for at least one million people in emerging markets within a decade of investment, while still meeting typical venture capital return expectations by commercialising their technology in North America and Europe.

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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

There was no venture capital, you know, there. People were reluctant to leave a big company and go to a small company. So it was a rapid pace of learning a lot in terms of being a public company growing so rapidly. Initially, it was started in 2005 and it was called Revolution, but it was just my capital.