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xigi.net
Challenges Entered:
Think of xigi (ziggy) as the Bloomberg of the emerging capital market for good. It provides news, research, analytical tools and due diligence for investors and wealth managers who care about financial and social impact in their decision-making.
Thousands of leading practitioners around the world are at work in the emerging hybrid “blended value†investment space that includes affordable housing, clean technology, community development, education, fair trade, green building, health, independent media, microfinance and technology. Investors who want to do good with their investment dollars are funding businesses that have, for example, found profitable ways to fight poverty, expand fair trade industries and provide expansion capital to independent media.Â
While there’s been a dramatic increase in the number and sophistication of deals being structured in this space and the amount of dollars moving into it, this new landscape is difficult to comprehend, and thus the flow of capital is inhibited.Â
xigi’s goal is to help this international emerging market to grow through market formation activities that guide and educate a growing wave of new money, while connecting it to the emergent entrepreneurs and deals in the space. In short, xigi is a market discovery platform to increase the flow of capital to this emerging marketplace.
WHAT WE NEED:
$250k per year for three years;Â Â Sponsorships;Â Â Editorial staffing;Â Â Development staffing
Location
San Francisco, CA
United States
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"It provides news, research,
"It provides news, research, analytical tools and due diligence for investors and wealth managers who care about financial and social impact in their decision-making."All twelve of them?
maps are the killer app
just a note to those who have not been to the xigi site: mapping the relationships between the players in the social capital market is the killer app thus far for xigi particularly since the nature of those relationships is quickly identified allowing anyone to see the kinds of transactions that are occurring in the marketplace. as a market discovery platform this kind of information is hugely valuable as the players in the market see themselves in the context of the entire field and make decisions as to where they transact next.
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it's working
when the xigi team deployed maps in december, people started coming and putting themselves and their organizations on the map. and it's continuing to happen. so we are starting to get a community-built handle on who's doing what in fair trade, in social enterprise. new people are being educated faster and entrenched entrants are finding new players they need to know about; and the maps often show them people involved that they are already know so they can get up to speed quicker with a quick phone call or email.