Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is an American entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a non-profit global venture capital fund whose goal is to use entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty. Acumen has invested over $90 million of patient capital in 80 businesses that have impacted more than 125 million people in the past year. Any money returned to Acumen is reinvested in enterprises serving the poor. Currently, Acumen has offices in New York, Mumbai, Karachi, Nairobi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
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Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.