Harvard Business School Podcast: Investing in No-Sacrifice Models for Climate: Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners

Nan­cy Pfund is founder and man­ag­ing part­ner of DBL Part­ners, one of the first and largest impact invest­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal firms in the world. DBL seeks to achieve “Dou­ble Bot­tom Line” results for its investors: top tier finan­cial returns as well as mean­ing­ful social and envi­ron­men­tal impact. It cur­rent­ly holds over $400 mil­lion in assets under man­age­ment. Through her ear­ly stage invest­ments in Tes­la and sup­port for com­pa­nies in sec­tors from fash­ion to agri­cul­ture, Nan­cy has shaped the field of impact invest­ing and demon­strat­ed the pow­er of ven­ture cap­i­tal to address cli­mate change. In this episode, she describes the how she iden­ti­fies dou­ble-bot­tom-line oppor­tu­ni­ties and some of the com­pa­nies she’s excit­ed to be invest­ing in now.

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