Sixteen Top Social Entrepreneurs Vetted by Leading Accelerator Firms Pitch Impact Investors at SOCAP11
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixteen top social entrepreneur companies vetted by leading accelerator firms including Agora Partnerships, Echoing Green, Unreasonable Institute, Slow Money, Vodaphone, Hub Ventures and Village Capital will give their corporate presentations to impact investors during the Entrepreneur Track at the fourth annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP11), held September 6-9 at San Franciscos Fort Mason Center. The sixteen were picked from a pool of eighty-one companies previously nominated by nineteen of SOCAPs partner social enterprise accelerator programs. Suzanne Biegel, Catalyst At Large, Investors Circle Advisory Board, and track emcee will select along with the mentors the most exceptional entrepreneurs among the sixteen to pitch to SOCAP attendees on the main stage. It is also a forum that enables the investor community to place capital in the vast array of truly investible ventures that exist across sectors that they care deeply about," remarked Tim Freundlich, President, ImpactAssets and Senior Adviser to SOCAP. Our event series connects innovators worldwide – investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs – to build a market at the intersection of money and meaning.