Social Venture Partners

Social Venture Partners (SVP) is the world's largest network of engaged philanthropic investors, with 32 city chapters in four countries and over 2,700 members. SVP's venture philanthropy model seeks to catalyze significant, long-term positive social change in chapter cities through a two-pronged strategy of philanthropy development and capacity building. Through SVP, philanthropists build stronger nonprofit organizations and become more engaged citizens.

4 past transactions

Neogrowth

Series C in 2015
Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company, it is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories, handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. Neogrowth was established in 2011 by Dhruv Khaitan and Piyush Khaitan in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Board on Track

Seed Round in 2015
BoardOnTrack provides expertise, training, powerful, web-based tools, and a membership community to the foot soldiers in the battle to improve our nation's public school system. The charter school is a multi-million dollar public enterprise. Running it with a group of volunteers is a daunting task. BoardOnTrack helps in leveraging the efforts of volunteer board members into real results: academic excellence and organizational sustainability. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

SmartNews

Series C in 2015
SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.

SmartNews

Series B in 2014
SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.
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