Cecile Blilious: Investing for impact, first

Cecile is the Founder and Managing Partner at Impact First Investments, a firm which retains the energy and talent of entrepreneurship to make the world better.

Blending purpose, capital and tech seemed entirely logical, she tells Heidi in this episode, which covers:

How Cecile got started in impact investing.Some of her interesting and impactful investees.Why half of the companies Impact First Investments invests into are founded by women.What's changed since Cecile started making investments for impact.How Cecile captures the impact that Impact First Investments has as an organisation when it is investing in so many different things.Cecile's own impact measurement methodology.Why Cecile says you can divide the world into impact natives and impact migrants.How and why Cecile seeks to make "impact investing" obsolete.

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