Flyer Named as CO Impact Days and Initiative Finalist
Flyer’s Equity and Inclusion Platform to be a Featured Speaker at the Second Annual Marketplace for Impact Investing
CO Impact Days and Initiative announced the top 100 social ventures that have been invited to meet face to face with investors in order to seek millions of dollars of “impact investments” at CO Impact Days Social Venture Showcase on November 17, 2017. Flyer School App was chosen as one out of 150 applicants in a competitive process with over 138 judges from around the United States, and will be showcasing in the Education/Early Childhood Track at the event as the keynote speaker in that track!
The 100 ventures will convene on November 17 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Performing Arts Complex for the second year of this innovative, exciting, “shark-tank for good” statewide marketplace for impact investing. The chosen social ventures will have the opportunity to showcase their investment opportunities to offer not only a financial return on the impact investor’s investment, but also to offer solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
“We are so thrilled to again invite over 200 investors and philanthropists to interact with these valuable social ventures. When these two groups of powerful move-makers share a room, there is no telling the good that will come. We’ve aimed to offer a diverse array of impact investments, with a goal that every investor attendee will leave knowing that deal flow is not a Colorado impact investing problem,” said Dr. Stephanie Gripne, Founder of the Impact Finance Center and creator of CO Impact Days and Initiative. “We’re excited to continue this effort and see even more fruitful collisions at this year’s marketplace.”
The goal of CO Impact Initiative is to catalyze $100 million in impact investments into Colorado social ventures in the next three years, and it is kicking off with CO Impact Days on November 15–17. CO Impact Days encourages a new breed of impact investors and community members to Learn. Connect. Invest.
“To be selected as a featured speaker in this field of incredible social ventures is truly an honor,” said Flyer CEO and Founder, Zuben Bastani. “We’ve worked hard over the past two and a half years to build a dynamic platform that brings equity and delivers social resources to schools and districts. To be able to present our brand new Flyer 2.0 solution at CID’s Social Venture Marketplace is an invaluable opportunity, and one for which we’re very grateful.”
CO Impact Days’ innovation is uniquely possible because Colorado is home to a number of national leaders in impact investing and a thriving and collaborative community of social venture entrepreneurs in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, plus philanthropists and investors who are committed to growing Colorado’s economy and creating good jobs while ensuring our state remains one of the best places to work, live and play in the U.S.
Originally published at https://www.flyerconnect.org on February 22, 2016.
