Considered by many as the father of impact investing, Sir Ronald Cohen’s book impact is about framing ROI with more than just financial profit
Considered by many as the father of impact investing, Sir Ronald Cohen’s book impact is about framing ROI with more than just financial profit
As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models. Based on Pitchbook data, $2 billion have been invested in impact tech startups in 2019 alone — a 10X increase in the past 5 years — and the industry has been growing by 50% accordingly (as opposed to 20% growth of the traditional VC industry
SemantiNet, a semantic search technology startup based in Israel, raised a round of $1.7 million led by Giza Venture Capital. Israeli angel and internet guru Yossi Vardi is listed among Semantinet’s previous investors along with Sir Ronald Cohen (founder of Apax Partners), Robert Imershein, Moudi Ben-Shachand and Jeff Pulver. There’s not much known about Semantinet’s technology. A blog post reports that the company development is …