Startup Funding Espresso -- The Challenge of Impact Investing

The Challenge of Impact Investing Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Impact investing seeks to make the world a better place through its investments. As with all investing, it comes with its own challenges. Most impact investments underperform the market. The focus on providing social or environmental benefits degrades the financial return. Some researchers claim that impact investing receiving market returns is not having an impact, and those delivering an impact end up with below-market returns. The challenge is finding an impact investment opportunity that provides enough of an impact to offset the lower return. It's important to measure the impact the company provides and follow it over time to know that it is making a real difference. In many impact startups, the social or environmental impact is not clearly defined. The impact investor must identify a company actually providing the stated impact, then the investment must actually increase the company's measured impact. Impact investing encourages companies to provide a social impact, but there must be a measured result to determine how effective it is. Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding.Let's go startup something today. ___________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ For eGuides check out: https://tencapital.group/education/ For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/ For Feedback please contact [email protected] Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound.