Course Overview
Impact Investing for VCs is a practical course and part of our Sustainability Series, designed to provide venture capital professionals with the knowledge and tools to integrate impact into their investment strategies. Participants will learn how to develop an impactful investment thesis, assess both financial and social returns, and understand how impact can serve as a competitive advantage.
The course also covers effective impact measurement, reporting practices, and strategies for engaging with LPs, ensuring that impact investments drive value and measurable outcomes across the investment lifecycle.
Key topics include
- Developing an impact investment thesis for high-impact, high-return business models
- Understanding how impact can drive commercial value and serve as a competitive advantage
- Assessing impact returns, risks, and related financial upside
- Designing and implementing strategic impact objectives
- Measuring and reporting impact in a meaningful and credible way
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Engaging with LPs on impact performance and expectations
What will delegates take away?
- A clear understanding of how to build and apply an impact investment thesis in a VC context
- Practical tools for assessing the financial and non-financial returns of impact investments
- Insight into how impact can serve as a strategic differentiator and value driver
- Frameworks for measuring, tracking, and reporting impact effectively
- Confidence in communicating impact strategies and outcomes to LPs and stakeholders
- Real-world examples and best practices from across the VC and impact investing landscape
Course Director
Alexander Chikunov
Alex is the Founding & Managing Partner at Verb Ventures and has extensive hands-on experience as a venture capital investor, corporate finance professional and entrepreneur. Alex was part of the founding team of one of Europe’s biggest crowd investment platforms before moving into venture and amassing a track record of deals and exits involving companies such as SimplyCook, Airsorted (Houst), Hubble and Homewings.
Prior to founding Verb Ventures, Alex was the Managing Director of another marketplace focussed VC and built an impressive portfolio that Verb Ventures now manages today.
Alex is passionate about helping entrepreneurs with great ideas and taking their concepts to the next level. He is involved in a number of accelerator and mentoring programmes and is a passionate mountain skier.
CPD accreditation
This course is CPD accredited by the CPD Certification Service for 3 hours. By attending this course, you will receive a digital certificate from Diplomasafe. This certificate allows you to share and save your new CPD accredited qualification on LinkedIn, adding instantly verifiable credentials and strengthening your professional profile.
Sustainability Series Package Offer
Purchase this short course and any others in the BVCA’s Sustainability Series* and save up to 20%.
Purchase any 2 courses and save 5%
Purchase any 3 courses and save 10%
Purchase all 4 courses and save 20%
For further information and to get the multi-buy savings, contact BVCA Training.
*The Sustainability Series comprises of the following four courses: ESG in Action, Decarbonisation Strategies, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy, and Impact Investing for VCs. The BVCA reserves the right to withdraw this offer at anytime.
