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Innovative Financing Workshop & Course - LSE Marhsall Institute
Join us for a Workshop Event on Innovative Financing at The LSE Marshall Institute from 7th of June from 8:00AM to 4:30PM.
The workshop event forms part of an innovative financing course for founders and funders, as well as funding intermediaries. For all participants, by the end of the course and workshop, you can expect to:
Understand the entire spectrum of innovative financing options for purpose driven companies and impact focused funders
Be able to assess funding options and their appropriateness for different stages of a company's growth and their funding needs
Build a network of like-minded founders and funders
Be equipped with a plethora of resources and materials to use as reference guides in the future
The workshop event is followed by a networking event at the George IV Pub where we can talk all things innovative financing and alternative funding.

OxEN Startup Bootcamp 19
Join Oxford Entrepreneurs Network (OxEN) for an interactive workshop on alternative funding strategies for startups!

LSE Marshall Institute - Adventure Finance
Join us for an event with Aunnie Patton Power, author of a new book Adventure Finance about investing and funding options for startups.

Purpose Fireside Chat: Adventure Finance meets Steward-Ownership
Join our Fireside Chat on how to create a funding journey that blends profit and purpose and how this is connected to corporate ownership.
Author and founder Aunnie Patton Power and Purpose US Partner Camille Canon in conversation about Aunnie's new book Adventure Finance.
How can founders create a funding journey that blends profit and purpose and how to maintain a longterm mission-driven corporate structure?

Accessing New Segments of the Market with Regenerative Capital and Risk-Adjusted Returns
The Predistribution Initiative Event
The discussion will help investors - particularly institutional investors - learn about these emerging asset classes, their return profiles, payback periods, investment opportunities, and how they can reach new segments of the market that have been overlooked by traditional PE and VC strategies.

Impact Investing: Beyond Debt and Equity
Oxford Saïd Business School Event
In this webinar, Professor Alex Nicholls will be in conversation with Aunnie Patton Power, author of Adventure Finance, about the opportunities for Impact Investors to go beyond traditional debt and equity structures to make their investments more inclusive, responsive and relevant for SMEs.

Spark Session: Financial Innovations in Philanthropy
Hosted by The Beam Network. Learn about cutting-edge tools that philanthropists and grant makers can add to their arsenal, to ensure that their support is optimally serving their beneficiaries.

Adventure Finance: a conversation with Aunnie Patton Power
Hosted by Zebras Unite. In this launch party, Aunnie will be reflecting on some of the key findings from the book and engaging in a conversation around the future of early-stage funding.

Impact Investing for Philanthropists
Hear from author Aunnie Patton Power about the landscape of opportunities available to donors and entrepreneurs.

Impact Entrepreneur Event
A live, virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A with Aunnie and Laurie Lane-Zucker.
Impact Entrepreneur Event
If you missed the fireside chat and audience Q&A with Aunnie and Laurie Lane-Zucker - watch it again here.
Oxford Saïd Business School Event
If you missed the webinar on Impact Investing: Beyond Debt and Equity, you can watch it again here
The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) Event
If you missed the Predistribution Initiative (PDI) webinar: Allocating Capital to New Segments of the Market with Regenerative Investment Structures & Risk-Adjusted Returns - you can watch it here
Oxford Impact Finance Innovations Programme
Explore the art of the possible in delivering impact with this new virtual programme. Join an experienced group of professional peers from around the world to develop your impact investing strategy with Oxford researchers and global industry leaders.
Podcasts
Capital Insights Episode 13
Episode 13: Aunnie Patton Power Shares Why the VC Model Doesn’t Work For Most Small Businesses
In this episode, Host Jenny and Michelle interview Aunnie Patton Power, the founder of Intelligent Impact. Aunnie shares her views on why the traditional venture capital model doesn’t always work for small businesses and what alternatives she’s found to be more successful.
UNCDF Podcast #33
#33 Adventure Finance: How to Reimagine A Better System for Funders and Founders
Capital Musings UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Capital Musings is a podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with economic development experts, thought-leaders and private sector leaders discussing critical issues at the intersection of development finance, impact investment and the SDGs.
Tickr Episode 3
Aunnie Patton Power – Using growth for good
How can investors and founders rethink what growth means? Impact investing expert and founder of Intelligent Impact, Aunnie Patton Power, discusses her work finding new models of funding and what it means to be a successful and sustainable business.
Private Equity Laid Bare
Discussion with Aunnie Power Patton — Venture Financing Laid Bare
Talking about her forthcoming book ‘Adventure Finance’ in which she describes how small businesses can access finance even when they do not fit the venture capital boxes and mindset.
Articles
Revenue-based Financing During COVID
Impact Entrepreneur
Alt-financing tools help early impact enterprises build a track record with investors
Impact Alpha
10 ways to redesign venture finance for a more inclusive post-COVID world
Impact Alpha
Incentives for driving impact in deal
and fund structure
Impact Alpha
Democratizing business financing and ownership to build community wealth
Impact Alpha