Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD)

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  • Global
Current status
Closed
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Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD)

Project overview

SEAD created a global health social entrepreneurship hub for diverse stakeholders across the globe. This program mobilized a community of practitioners, investors, policymakers, faculty, staff, and students to identify, assess, build the capacity of, and scale health and healthcare enterprises around the world. Through SEAD, a subset of Innovations in Healthcare innovators had the opportunity to participate in a rigorous program of engagement and evaluation designed to help them scale their impact. Together with venture capitalists, angels, foundations and family offices, Investors’ Circle propelled $168 million plus $4 billion in follow-on investment into 269 enterprises dedicated to improving the environment, education, health and community, and is building out an investment program dedicated to global health ventures as part of SEAD.

Topics
  • Social Enterprise
Capabilities
  • Capacity Building and Education
  • Convening
  • Sourcing and scaling health innovations
Funders/Sponsors
USAID
Partners
Duke University; The Fuqua School of Business; Innovations in Healthcare  
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