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, 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, says she is wary of philanthropy entrepreneurs who think they can cure poverty using a Silicon Valley model. “The biggest point of failure when ...

Jacqueline Novogratz: It was going back to 2001. The idea was that the markets alone weren't solving problems of poverty, and neither was traditional aid or charity. On the one side, the markets were ...

Jacqueline Novogratz hosted the event where Clinton spoke. WireImage. 7. President Biden reportedly has only a single-digit lead over Donald Trump in New York. POOL/AFP via Getty Images.

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 ...