Design 21: Social Design Network

Programs

Investors' Circle is a network of over 200 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. Since 1992, Investors' Circle has facilitated the flow of over $130 million into 200 companies and small funds addressing social and environmental issues.

News & Events

2009 Spring Conference & Venture Fair April 19-21, 2009 Westin St. Francis, San Francisco See www.investorscircle.net for details.

History

We started out as an angel network, at a time when the term “angel” had yet to be bandied about. During the 1990s, we became one of the largest angel groups in the country, expanding to incorporate many constituents and services that make IC more than just an angel network.

At our core are the wonderful individual stories, woven throughout the fabric of this undertaking: nurturing one of the nation's leading producers of organic cotton; linking a small venture fund in Vermont with a community development venture fund in Philadelphia; financing breakthrough hearing aid technology; helping the nation's leading importer of organic cocoa secure a program-related investment from a major foundation everything from stewarding a grain storage company in Africa, to providing non-traditional financing for a Vermont diner that sources food locally, to taking the management reins of a developer of submersible turbines.