Social Venture Fund
Balance financial returns with purpose.
Each fall, Social Venture Fund accepts 15-25 new investment associates. We have a strong preference for first-year MBAs or dual degree students and traditionally accept 2-5 BBAs and ~5 Law Students per year.
During the two-year commitment, associates will spend an average of 10-15 hours a week conducting deal sourcing, business plan evaluation, due diligence, capacity building, marketing, and fundraising.
Learn how to be an investor.
For companies that create social or environmental impact. You’ll focus on ventures addressing one of the following:
Community Development
Support businesses that drive inclusive economic growth in rural and urban U.S. communities
Education
Back innovations that expand access to quality education and career opportunities, especially for underserved groups
Health
Invest in solutions that tackle unmet healthcare needs and build more equitable, efficient systems
Climate
Help scale ventures that reduce emissions and create sustainable climate solutions
Portfolio
Company Description: An online travel marketplace with the purpose to make the world accessible, one destination at a time
Sector: Community Development
Year In: 2022
Company Description: Uses geospatial data and analytics to distill satellite and weather data into actionable insights for customers
Sector: Climate
Year In: 2021
Company Description: Noninvasive wearable and wireless skin patches that monitor fluid flow in chronic medical conditions in the hospital and home
Sector: Health
Year In: 2021
Company Description: Preventing blindness with the power of AI
Sector: Health
Year In: 2021
Company Description: Provider of online reading platform aiming to reinvent the where, how, and who of one-on-one and small group learning for students
Sector: Education
Year In: 2020
Company Description: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform to provide primary care physicians opportunity to closely and regularly monitor patients
Sector: Health
Year In: 2020
Company Description: Normalizes eating insects to create a humane, sustainable food system
Sector: Climate
Year In: 2018
Company Description: Delivers personalized, bite-sized lessons with step-by-step tutoring to help students master critical STEM skills
Sector: Education
Year In: 2016
Company Description: Empowers patients to actively engage in their health by providing a “Netflix for healthcare”, enabling healthcare’s digital front door
Sector: Health
Year In: 2013
Company Description: Connects local farmers with wholesale distribution to schools, hospitals, and restaurants in the southeastern US
Sector: Climate
Year In: 2012
Company Description: Creates powerful learning experiences through its digital curriculum so that teachers don’t have to reinvent the wheel
Sector: Education
Year In: 2012
Company Description: Gathers and presents public info about properties in clear, actionable ways to address issues related to foreclosure, blight, reuse of vacant space, and preservation of community assets
Sector: Community Development
Year In: 2014
Company Description: Controls and analyzes electricity consumption at the equipment level
Sector: Climate
Year In: 2014
Company Description: Automates conversations between physicians and patients to improve patient engagement and care planning and lowers costs
Sector: Health
Year In: 2016
Company Description: Empowers defendants to resolve minor violations informally and conveniently by providing online court dispute resolution
Sector: Community Development
Year In: 2017
The Social Venture Fund Team
SVF is a student-run fund of nearly 50 MBAs, BBAs, and JDs, many of whom are dual-degrees with the School of Education, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and the School of Public Health. While, at its core, SVF is a multidisciplinary, action-based learning experience that requires students to take leadership roles and apply lessons outside the classroom, it is only able to exist with the support and counsel of our partners and sponsors.
Leadership Team
Gautam aka “G”
Faculty Advisor
Education Circle
Community Development Circle
Climate Circle
Healthcare Circle
Board of Advisors
David Green
Co-Founder of LegWorks, Deutsche Bank Eye Fund, Sound World Solutions, Aurolab Portfolio
