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