HSG Hub São Paulo in EXAME

We are pleased to announce that the University of St.Gallen (HSG) has been mentioned in the Brazilian business magazine EXAME. 

The article describes the Impact Investing scene in Brazil as a booming market and refers to the HSG Hub São Paulo as a contributor to the divulgence of Impact Investing. Our Conference, taking place on the 14th of August, will talk about the transition of Impact Investing from margin to mainstream. 

More information about the conference coming soon. 

Roundtable on legal framework for Impact Investing in Brazil

29th of April 2014: Roundtable on legal framework for Impact Investing in Brazil in cooperation between the University of St.Gallen and Insper, and moderation by  Prof. Peter Sester

From left to right:  Luisa Ribeiro, Rodrigo Menezes, Peter Sester, Luis Eugênio Junqueira Figueiredo, Ana Luisa da Riva

On the 29th of April the Hub office of the University of St.Gallen and Insper organized a roundtable on the challenges of the legal framework for Impact Investing in Brazil. The moderator of the event was Prof. Peter Sester, who holds the Chair of International Business Law and of Law & Economics at the University of St.Gallen. The event was attended by representatives of various Impact Investing related institutions. 

Angélica Rotondaro from the HSG Hub São Paulo opened the session by welcoming the participants and presenting the speakers to the audience, followed by an outline of the roundtable’s objectives by Professor Sérgio Lazzarini (Insper). 

Rodrigo Menezes from Derraik & Menezes Advogados, a Brazilian full service law firm, initiated the roundtable by explaining the challenges and the importance of a regulatory framework for Impact Investing in Brazil. He reviewed the current situation of the entrepreneurs and investors as the most relevant agents for the regulatory framework and pointed out the three major drivers for change: improvement of the existing legislation, dismantling bureaucracy, and legal security. He finished his session with  two provocative questions: “Do we need a change in the regulatory environment of impact investing or in the regulatory environment in general?”  and “Do people [entrepreneurs] know the mechanisms that are already available to them to facilitate their businesses?”. Next, Ana Luisa da Riva, director of the Semeia Institute, presented the current situation of the protected areas in Brazil and the high potential to generate positive impact by engaging the government to establish an adequate legal framework that stimulates and supports both entrepreneurs and investors. She also indicated the role of Semeia in studying successful foreign cases, generating data, and testing models in order to foster further regulatory framework development and adaptation. Luisa Ribeiro, the founder of Papaya Ventures, a startup accelerator, elaborated on the mission of accelerators. She started by explaining the business model and how startups can be supported. Subsequently, she outlined the phases that accelerator and startup have to pass jointly in order to develop the business. Luiz Eugênio Junqueira Figueiredo, Vice President of ABVCAP (Brazilian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association), talked about the organization’s mission in promoting the development, sustainable growth and market integration of long-term investments. In addition, he presented ABVCAP’s executive committee of regulation, its project Projeto 600, the accomplishments so far and the future plans. 

Peter Sester wrapped up the roundtable by picking up the key points of each of the speakers and stressing the implications for the legal framework for Impact Investing in Brazil. Afterwards, the floor was opened for discussion and comments. 

A special thanks goes once more to all our speaker that enriched the current discussion on legal framework with their valuable insights. 

Fórum Brasileiro de Finanças Sociais e Negócios de Impacto

Terça e quarta-feira, 6 e 7 de maio de 2014

Fórum Brasileiro de Finanças Sociais e Negócios de Impacto, uma iniciativa conjunta da ARTEMISIA, do ICE (Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial) e da Vox Capital.

Realizado pela primeira vez no Brasil, com o propósito de fortalecer o ecossistema de Finanças Sociais e Negócios de Impacto no país, acontecerá em São Paulo, no Complexo Ohtake Cultural (Rua Coropés, 88, Pinheiros). Para mais informações e compra de ingressos clique aqui .

Save the date: 14th of August 2014 3rd Impact Investing Conference in São Paulo

Impact Investing in Brazil – from margin to mainstream
14^th August 2014 13:00 – 19:00

Since the last conference on Impact Investing in 2013, the HSG Hub São Paulo, Insper and their network partners have developed new research and initiatives to further develop the Impact Investing market in Brasil. The objective of 2014 is to focus on applicable best practice solutions, in order to take Impact Investing from margin to mainstream. The conference will provide insight in challenges of the Impact Investing market as well as discussion practical showcases, with directly applicable recommendations for entrepreneurs, investors, academics and public authorities.

You can find more information about past and upcoming events on our web-site and on facebook. 

Information about the preliminary program, the confirmed speakers and the topics are coming soon. Stay tuned.

Launch event Toniic E-guide

Maria Cavalcanti, representative of Toniic

On the 3^rd of April 2014 the University of St.Gallen supported the launch event of the Toniic E-Guide in Portuguese. The event took place at the Impact Hub São Paulo and was attended by many representatives of the Brazilian Impact Investing ecosystem.

The introductory opening was done by Angélica Rotondaro, from the University of St.Gallen, who presented the event’s main purpose, the speakers, as well as how the university supports the development of the impact investing market place in Brazil. Angélica underlined that the University of St.Gallen focuses on the generation of academic knowledge, the transmission of knowledge through education, courses and lectures as well as the annual Impact Investing Conference, already planned for the 14th of August 2014 in São Paulo.

The next speaker was Maria Cavalcanti, from FIRST Impact Investing Fund Brazil, who was the representative of Toniic for the E-Guide launch. In the course of the event, Maria presented the Toniic Guide for Early Stage Global Impact Investing as a schema to support the development of Impact Investing businesses. Thereby, the E-Guide is a very helpful and useful tool to structure the different phases of Impact Investing, increasing the possibilities for positive outcome.

Diana de Castro, from ACG Association for Corporate GrowthBrasil, talked about the challenges of the Impact Investing industry. With her background in private banking, she underlined the importance of clear definitions of the terms Impact Investing in differentiation to e.g. social responsible investing. Diana also highlighted the importance of the identification of potential clients that have the possibility to take Impact Investing from margins to mainstream, such as the private banking industry, family offices or high-net-worth individuals.

Célia Cruz, from ICE  (Instituto Cidadania Empresarial) picked up the idea of accelerating the Impact Investing industry. She highlighted the importance of integrating the academic actors in the field in order to anchor the ideas of Impact Investing in university education as well as in research. Consequently, she talked about the efforts of ICE to engage the universities to reach for academic players in the field. Additionally, she presented Forum Brasileiro de Finanças Sociais e Negócios de Impacto, which will take place in São Paulo on the 6^th and 7^th of May 2014.

The next speaker was Rebeca Rocha, from ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs), who did a short reporting back on the impact investors mapping study for Brazil, coordinated by ANDE, Quintessa, and LGT-VP in collaboration with the University of St.Gallen. Rebeca also emphasized the importance of focusing the efforts on the development of the Impact Investing industry by strengthening the connections to powerful clients in order to release the Impact potential and to build and consolidate the market. She also talked about the need to take the possibility of Impact Investing in Brazil to an international audience as well as to expand the support for projects to greater variety of geographic locations inside Brazil.

Flávio Giani Ramos took the role of bringing the entrepreneurs’ viewpoint to the conference and did an introduction about his business Educar 3.0. He also talked about the most common challenges of being an entrepreneur of impact in Brazil. The entrepreneurs’ view-point was also covered by João Vitor Caires, from The Impact Hub São Paulo, who did an introduction about the concept, events and organizational structure of the Impact Hub São Paulo. He also brought up an overview of how the global Impact Hub movement.

The University of St.Gallen Hub São Paulo would like to thank Toniic and FIRST Investment Brasil for the trust to jointly organize the E-Guide launch event. We would also like to thank the sustainability committee of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce for their support. The E-Guide launch also counted on the support of ACG Association for Corporate Growth Brasil,  Halloran Philantropies, The Impact Hub, Editora de Idéias.

For accessing the impact investing E-Guide please click here.

With our best regards, 

University of St.Gallen Hub Office São Paulo.

Angélica Rotondaro

Maria Cavalcanti

Diana de Castro

Rebeca Rocha

Flávio Giani Ramos

João Vitor Caires

Call for Application: Workshop and Panel Discussion on Social INTRApreneurship: Sustainable Brands, Rio de Janeiro, 24-25 April 2014

Don’t miss the opportunity!

The BMW Foundation is giving away four tickets for its 2014 “Sustainable Brands” conference in Rio de Janeiro to four Social INTRApreneurs from Brazil.

The application is very easy and can be done via this link.

All further information on the event can be found on the BMW Foundation Web-Site or the Sustainable Brand Event homepage.

We hope that this event will find the attention of our followers or even provide the possibility of promoting their businesses. Good luck for the application!

Panel: Investing for Impact in Latin America, Sao Paulo, Saturday 15th February 2014

The Impact Investing Research Platform of the HSG Hub Sao Paulo invites for the Panel Investing for Impact in Latin America. The panel consists of leading industry players in Brazil, who will share their experiences in Impact Investing. Besides, the following topics will be discussed:

• There is limited consensus on what impact investing is, how it can benefit society and what is the appropriate tradeoff between financial and social and environmental returns
   
• For the existing funds there is no agreement over the best funding models, levels or return, investment priorities and methods to measure impact and thus many impact investment models have emerged from grant making NGOs to scale oriented PE/VC players
   
• This panel will discuss what is impact investing, how large it is in Latin America, who are the principle players and in which sectors do they focus, what are the different business models that exist today

Panelists
Daniel Izzo (Vox Capital)
Marcela Zingerevitz (MOV Investimentos)
Leonardo Letelier (SITAWI)
Hector Gomez - Moderator (International Finance Corp)

Date and Location
February 15th (Saturday) 10:00 until approx 14:00
Restaurante Ráscal – Itaim. Rua Leopoldo Couto de Magalhães, 831
Price 184R$ (incl. lunch)

Confirmation
Send an e-mail to rsvp@inseadbrazil.com.br

Our team from the HSG Hub Sao Paulo will be present and we are looking forward meeting you there.