What a year - full of surprises, shocks, and serenity. Thanks for holding on to me this year. 2020 made me realize the power of being comfortable with myself. When there is hopelessness, there is light too. If you are struggling to find the light, you are not alone, but trust me, there is light!
Last year, on December 28, I wrote my first newsletter on portfolio strategy. I never knew this newsletter would take center stage in my life. It helped me share my thoughts, opinions, and trends about impact investing, conscious capitalism, and venture capital. Most importantly, it helped me translate my vision of driving capital to conscious capitalism.
I want to re-share some of them that helped shape my thoughts on innovative finance, conscious investing, and venture capital.
Nine-blocks Fund Model
Fund Model Canvas has covered the fundamental blocks of building and running a venture fund, conscious one!
Venture Studios
The promise of Venture Studio has covered the potential of venture studios and potential models.
Venture Studio and more, 101 about venture building or venture studio, as an emerging asset class in the alternate investment space.
Impact Investing as a service
Impact Investing-as-a-Service, what does it even mean? I laid out the basics of how corporates, INGOs, CSRs are looking to engage with the impact economy.
Corporate Impact Funds, how corporates are increasingly increasing their participation in impact investing via self-managed impact funds or outsourced to asset managers.
Embedding impact
Incentivizing Impact: Venture Level & Fund Level, how to create alignment and incentive structures among fund managers and entrepreneurs to create impact.
Ecosystem Approach to Investing, impact investing, and ecosystem building goes hand in hand and should be done more consciously and carefully.
Future of Student Lending: Income Share Agreements and Career Impact Bonds
For first-time fund managers (FTFMs)
Basics
Insights
Investment Thesis
Lastly, hear my thoughts on impact investing here.
Happy Holidays!
Love and Light,
Sags
I plan to work with First-time fund managers (FTFMs), international NGOs, foundations, corporations, CSRs, and philanthropists to provide unique market acceleration opportunities to launch their impact funds and impact venture studios impact bonds, and any other form of blended investment vehicle.
If you are looking for one of them, please visit http://bit.ly/impactfunddesign to know more and write to me at sagar@firstfollowers.co. I would love to learn more from you and would be happy to help in any way.
"first followers" is founded by Sagar Tandon, a founding member at Moonshot Ventures. You can reach him at sagar@firstfollowers.co.
The "first followers" is a monthly newsletter covering impact investing, venture capital, innovative financing instruments, and venture building.