#62: Peter Bruce-Clark - Partner at Social Impact Capital - Impact Investing Done Right

Topics:Defining impact investing.Going from being a natural pessimist to a willful optimist.The generational divide and how the two invest.Sucking carbon out of the atmosphere to create diamonds. investing in companies where Impact and financials are closely interconnected.Showing up every single day and what that means. Peter is a partner at Social Impact capital, a VC investing in entrepreneurs that are building companies solving the world’s most challenging and entrenched problems. Prior to joining Social Impact Capital, Peter was the Head of Business Development at RCI, investment technology and alternative lending platform backed by 8VC and Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, Peter created an early-stage AI venture capital firm focused on investing in companies using machine learning in high-impact areas of application. He is also the founder of Kalytix Partners, a specialist strategy and management consultancy for institutional investors that was later acquired. In addition to his work, Peter has led research on impact finance and strategic investment at Stanford University, collaborating with Planet Heritage and White Sand Investor Group. His publications include Sovereign Development Funds: The Governance and Management of Strategic Investment Institutions, which was published in The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds in 2018, and the paper called Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation which was published just a couple of weeks back in SN Business and Economics…. Website: https://social-impact-capital.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbruceclark/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pbcolossus?lang=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtjoker/?hl=enBook: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Her-Hands-Ottessa-Moshfegh/dp/1984879359Impact Investments Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43546-020-00033-6