Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and chief executive officer of Acumen Fund, a global venture capital fund, discusses her experiences working with entrepreneurs around the world.

JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, Founder and CEO, Acumen: When I was six years old, my first grade nun, Sister Mary Theophane, beat it into my head to whom much is given much is expected.

Jacqueline Novogratz, at 25, left the cushy life as an international banker at Chase and took off for Rwanda. Her aim? To start a microfinance institution for low-income people.

Good morning. There’s a phrase that Jacqueline Novogratz uses that has inspired me: “Entrepreneurship grounded in moral imagination.” Novogratz is CEO of Acumen, which she founded in 2001 as ...

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Nearly 300 people virtually attended the annual Handleman Lecture Tuesday to hear Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the venture capital fund Acumen, speak about how her company uses business ...

Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz relies on a ‘kitchen cabinet’ of advisors as her firm invests in startups tackling problems faced by low-income communities. Skip to Main Content.

That author, Jacqueline Novogratz, was there in Robsham Theater that November evening, invited by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics. Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a nonprofit ...

Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen in 2001, six years before the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term “impact investing” to describe investing to realize specific positive social and/or ...

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That author, Jacqueline Novogratz, was there in Robsham Theater that November evening, invited by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics. Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a nonprofit ...