Podcast: Conscious Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing

The Future of Heart-Powered Entrepreneurship interviewed me about my work at Fledge, Africa Eats, and The Angel Accelerator.

Takeaways from this podcast include:

Luni works with mission driven for profit entrepreneurs to help them launch and grow their companies.
He recently created an accelerator for investors to help them invest in conscious companies
When people think about improving the world’s problems, they think philanthropy and nonprofits. But for profit companies are a more efficient way to solve these problems
What is a conscious company? There are 17 defined categories that Luni has defined for a conscious company – hunger, inequality, poverty, sustainability are a few of the categories.

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