Member Community
From January 2020 through December 2022, Upstart advised our Member Community — a group of pioneering impact investors who understand the power of art, design, culture, heritage and creativity — on investing with funds and businesses in the creative economy expected to have commercial success and generate social impact.
Members included the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Builders Initiative, Creative Capital, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Martha J. Fleischman, Neil Hamamoto, Lorrie Meyercord, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, and an anonymous donor-advised fund. Additional support for the Member Community was provided by the Compton Foundation, the David Rockefeller Fund, and the Ford Foundation.
Upstart Co-Lab sourced and screened 40 investment opportunities aligned with our Members’ geographic, programmatic, investment and impact priorities:
- 7th Ave
- Akola
- Alante Capital
- Alpha’a
- Arternal
- Arts & Rec
- Collab Capital
- Colorado Enterprise Fund
- E-Line Media
- EatOkra
- Eiffel Investment Group – Cultural Tourism Fund
- Greenbelt Hospitality
- Honeycomb Credit
- Honeycomb Credit Loan Participation Fund
- Idoru
- Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC)
- Invisible Pictures
- LISC Impact Note
- MaC Venture Capital
- Newlab
- Nvak Collective
- Paskho
- Preemadonna
- Purpose Evergreen Capital
- REC Philly
- RSF Social Investment Fund
- RUNWAY
- Seed & Spark
- Self-Help Credit Union
- SoGal Ventures
- Springdale Ventures
- Supply Change Capital
- Tandem Pictures
- To the Market
- Triumph Culture Capital
- True North Studio
- Upriver Studios
- UTA Ventures
- Viewcy
- Whetstone Media
Read our Impact Report for more information.
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