#68 - Planet-Friendly Profit: Insights into Funding a Better World with Mike Winterfield, Founder of Active Impact Investments

Mar 17, 2020

See Full Show Notes here: https://growensemble.com/active-impact-investments-mike-winterfield/

 

In this episode, we chat with Mike Winterfield, the Founder of Active Impact Investments—a venture capital firm that exclusively supports small to medium-sized social ventures in their early stages—helping them scale their impact and profit by providing funding and extensive capacity-building services to their portfolio companies.

 

In our chat with Winterfield, we dive into:

• His 20 years in the tech industry and his transition into Impact Investing
• The edge that allowed him to move into the financial space successfully
• His insights and outlook on what impact investing is and Active Impact Investments' unique approach to it
• The effect impact investing has on social and environmental wellbeing
• What Mike is most excited about moving forward in his line of work
• Resources for those interested in the impact investment space

 

Links from the Episode:

• Active Impact Investments on LinkedIn
• Mike on LinkedIn
• B-Corps
• SoCap 
• Social Finance Forum
• B Labs Champions Retreat
• Whiplash by Jeff Howe Joi Ito
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling
• Linchpin by Seth Godin
• Tip of the Spear by Ryan Hendrickson 
• Drawdown by Paul Hawken
• Carbon Engineering
• Beyond Meat
• Tesla

 

See Full Show Notes here: https://growensemble.com/active-impact-investments-mike-winterfield/