Finding Investors
Your new start-up business needs to find investors. Some key options are finding angel investors or venture capital firms interested in social entrepreneurship. One way to begin this research is to find other startups in similar spaces, then look into their funding avenues. Another is to look into this type of start up and see the major investors. Finally an option is to find small, individual investors by crowdfunding through a platform like Kickstarter.
- CB InsightsCB Insights is a venture capital and angel investment database that provides daily real-time information about venture capital and angel investor-backed start-up companies, VC firms, angel investors, and transactions in the United States. Users are required to create an account using their Cornell email address. Use this database to look up a start up company or to find investors in your industry.
- Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete provides full text for business journals. Use this resource to search for startups in social entrepreneurship. Identify the company, learn what you can about them, then use CB Insights to find out more about their funding sources. Their funders may also be interested in funding you.
- ABI/InformABI/Inform is an extensive international business and management database. Use this database to find start ups or investors in social entrepreneurship.
- The 6 Best Crowdfunding Platforms of 2021Articles like this one will help you to identify crowdfunding platforms and investigate how they work. Don't hesitate to seek out second and third opinions (more articles like this one) and read more on the crowdfunding platform's 'About Us' page.