Upstart Co-Lab

The Nature Conservancy has started investing its $3 billion endowment into start-ups developing climate-related technologies. READ: https://lnkd.in/eUdAcWEu With endowments of $60+ billion, now is the time for U.S. cultural institutions to invest in the creative industries. Read about Upstart Co-Lab's work with cultural institutions: https://lnkd.in/etfRuh4J #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy #culturalinstitutions

Upstart Co-Lab raised $15 million in the first close of our Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy to drive financial inclusion, quality jobs, and community development through film and TV, video games, fashion, music, beauty and other creative industries. Read my guest post in ImpactAlpha today that shares some lessons learned from our experience: https://lnkd.in/ey7XgRE6

“When you think of food, fashion, media, art, creative spaces,  those are all powerful vehicles for organizing communities and essentially  empowering those communities for the change they want to see.”  -Daniel Gould, CFA, CAIA Gould, VP of Investments & Operations, Marguerite Casey Foundation See what we see: extraordinary talent, energy and potential in the creative economy. WATCH THE VIDEO: https://lnkd.in/eSUHAWKw #impinv #impactinvesting #creative #creativity #creativeeconomy

Upstart Co-Lab launches our new Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy – the first dedicated impact investment portfolio for the U.S. creative industries – with nearly $15 million committed. Upstart is implementing the Strategy within ImpactAssets. (Thanks, Tim Freundlich and Deb Parsons!) “Investors committed to meaningful change will recognize Upstart Co-Lab’s Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy as a reconciliation fund—a way to build new kinds of communities that truly work for everyone" - Clara Miller, Upstart Co-Lab investment committee member, president emerita of the Heron Foundation, and founder of the Nonprofit Finance Fund We salute the pioneering investors and funders who are helping demonstrate the potential for the creative economy to generate market rate returns and deep people-focused impact: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Good Chaos, the Innisburg Charitable Foundation, the Jess Jacobs Fund at the Amalgamated Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Marian B. and Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Marrazzo Family Foundation, Michael Quattrone, the THE PRITZKER PUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION, The Rockefeller Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Snap Foundation, Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Toledo Museum of Art, TARGET FOUNDATION, TOMKAT FOUNDATION, The Visions Fund at The Philadelphia Foundation founded by The Halloran Trust/Halloran Philanthropies, and the Woodcock Foundation. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/g2PC97vw Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eAWhZE2T #impactinvesting #impinv #creativeeconomy #creativity #art #socent

In 2017, the MacArthur Foundation funded Upstart Co-Lab to research how the creative economy can stabilize threatened communities in “Creative Places & Businesses: Catalyzing Growth in Communities.” Read more about Upstart’s journey: https://lnkd.in/g9KahcBk Deborah Schwartz Urmi Sengupta Allison Clark #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy #creativity #art

Art, design, culture, heritage and creativity drive economic development, spur civic engagement, improve quality of life, and build neighborhood resilience. Upstart Co-Lab’s Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy targets market rate returns, prioritizes BIPOC and women entrepreneurs leading companies in creative industries, enables quality jobs, and anchors vibrant communities. Learn how the Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy will advance reconciliation, restorative justice, and repair. WATCH THE VIDEO: https://lnkd.in/eGdNVvv4 Speakers include: Clara Miller, Daniel Gould, CFA, CAIA, Jess Jacobs, Gary Steuer, Zia Khan, Brian Fernandes-Halloran, and Adam Levine Eat Offbeat Wynne E-Line Media ARTERNAL Level Forward SoGal Ventures Supply Change Capital Idoru REC Philly Whetstone Media United Talent Agency #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy #creativity #art

"Upstart Co-Lab has been an incredible champion of our work at Whetstone Media… and they have proved they’re people who share my worldview: the profound power of narrative and storytelling” Thank you Stephen S., founder of Whetstone Media, for your kind words about Upstart Co-Lab. WATCH what the host of Netflix's "High on the Hog" has to say: https://lnkd.in/eW5DmBYq If you are a fund manager investing in food, fashion, media and other creative industries -- or an entrepreneur growing a business in the creative economy -- and seeking impact investment, please be in touch: https://lnkd.in/e3RaGsTi #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy

I sat down with Ethic’s Jay Lipman and host of Netflix’s 'High on the Hog' and founder of Whetstone Media, Stephen S., for a conversation on the power of storytelling, what it takes to introduce a new theme to impact investing, and what investors and creatives can do to build an inclusive creative economy. WATCH: https://lnkd.in/eD-XXSMG #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy 

In 2017, Upstart Co-Lab partnered with nonprofit real estate developer Artspace using the Calvert Community Investment Note to raise $2.5 million to finance affordable live-work space for artists. Read more about Upstart’s journey: https://lnkd.in/g9KahcBk #impinv #impactinvesting #socent #creatoreconomy #creativeeconomy #creativity #art

Excited to be speaking on impact investing in the creative sector economy as part of this annual convening on art and finance. Will share our lessons from Upstart Co-Lab and moderate a panel including Jed Emerson, Samuel Bonsey and Tamar Guttmann