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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

So it was a rapid pace of learning a lot in terms of being a public company growing so rapidly. How do you create a boomerang of people returning? And it allowed things like crowdfunding had created an on-ramp for young companies to go public who were called “emerging growth companies,” that has fueled more IPOs.