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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Impact Engine Opens Applications for 2013 Class
Accelerator seeks scalable startups creating positive societal and environmental change CHICAGO, May 15, 2013 — Impact Engine, a 16-week accelerator program that supports for-profit businesses making the world a better place, is now accepting applications for its second class, Impact 2, through June 30th. The program, which is geared towards early stage startups addressing societal [...]
Friday, April 19, 2013
Application Launch Party – May 15, 2013
Come celebrate the launch of applications for Impact Engine’s second cohort, Impact 2. Whether you’re applying to our program or just want to support the impact community, we hope you’ll join us as we begin the next phase of our program.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
StartingBloc + Impact Engine Happy Hour
We’re teaming up with the awesome folks at StartingBloc to host an innovation happy hour at 1871. Come mix and mingle with like-minded impact entrepreneurs, plus learn about StartingBloc’s new Detroit institute and Impact Engine’s 16-week accelerator program.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Winners Of The Innovation Project’s “Best in Show” Announced
Impact 1 team Pangea wins “Best in Show” at Innovator’s Expo and $10,000 cash grant from PYMTS.com.
Friday, March 15, 2013
News :: 5 Entrepreneurial Lessons I Learned from Richard Branson
Impact 1 entrepreneur Shayan Nahrvar’s guest post for Venture Beat on his three days in South Africa with Sir Richard Branson.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
News :: ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’ Places Importance on Social Consciousness
Impact 1 team Pangea is featured in the February 2013 issue of Entrepreneur.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
News :: Social Enterprise: The Investor’s Final Frontier
More and more private sector investors are jumping into the social sector, supporting impact entrepreneurs and seeing returns on their investments. That’s good for everybody’s bottom line.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
News :: Entrepreneurial Royalty Makes a Cameo Appearance at Demo Day
It’s not unusual for startups to pull out all the stops on demo day, when they make their pitches to a room full of investors. But it was hard to top Shayan Nahrvar’s pitch for wow factor at the Impact Engine demo day on Wednesday. He got Richard Branson to plug his website, Raise5, which [...]
Friday, November 2, 2012
News :: Chicago Entrepreneur Helps Struggling Female Artists Abroad Connect with Retailers
Impact 1 team Collaborative Group is featured in the Chicago Sun Times on November 2, 2012.
Friday, August 24, 2012
News :: A New Period Industry To Drastically Improve The Lives Of India’s Women
In India, where feminine hygiene products are prohibitively expensive for much of the country, women’s periods can make life especially difficult. One new startup is trying to create a network of female entrepreneurs to sell cheap pads across the country.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
News :: Seeing Promise in Water Purification
A local entrepreneur focusing on quick and cheap ways to purify drinking water is getting a double boost this fall. Portapure Inc., launched in late 2010 by George Page, was selected by Impact Engine as one of the first eight startups that will benefit from mentoring and introductions to investors. Impact Engine is a new Chicago-based accelerator program that specializes in [...]
Friday, August 10, 2012
News :: Chicago’s Accelerator for World-Changing Startups Welcomes its First Batch
OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has launched ImpactEngine, a new Chicago-based accelerator to support for-profit businesses that aim to make a positive social or environmental impact in the world. This week, ImpactEngine accepted its first class. These founders hope to become leaders of businesses doing social good and are tackling global problems like illiteracy in emerging [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Impact Engine Announces Inaugural Class of 2012
CHICAGO, August 8, 2012 — Impact Engine, a new accelerator that supports for-profit businesses trying to make the world a better place, welcomes eight early stage companies into the program’s first-ever class. From empowering women in rural India to improving education in the United States to providing renewable energy to the people of Africa, the 2012 [...]
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
News :: Impact Engine Accepts First Batch Of Startups For Social Enterprise
Impact Engine is a new Chicago accelerator that focuses on for-profit startups with a social or environmental focus. The social entrepreneurship program plans to announce its first batch of eight companies Tuesday, which include startups in education, energy, financial services and health. Five of the eight companies focus on international markets.
Friday, June 22, 2012
News :: Chicago’s Impact Engine Accelerator Is Looking For Environmentally & Socially Minded Startups
Impact Engine is a newly launched venture accelerator in Chicago designed to attract both environmentally and socially-minded businesses that want to – well, you know — make an impact on today’s world. The belief is that you don’t have to be a non-profit business to make this happen, but that it’s possible to create self-sustaining businesses that are [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Impact Engine Announces Chuck Templeton As Managing Director
CHICAGO, April 19, 2012 — Impact Engine is pleased to announce Chuck Templeton has joined the team as managing director. Chuck is a successful serial entrepreneur best known for creating and defining the restaurant reservation space after founding OpenTable in 1998. The online restaurant reservation website has seated over 280 million diners and services more than 25,000 [...]
Thursday, April 5, 2012
News :: ‘Innovation Is the Easy Part’: Providing Fuel for the Social Impact Sector
Social entrepreneurs are notoriously creative—you have to be to concoct a venture that makes doing good profitable. But when they launch their businesses, many entrepreneurs discover that innovation was the easy part.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
News :: Impact Engine Looking to Drive Growth for Socially Minded Startups
New business accelerator to start next fall, offering seed funding, business development help and mentoring for up to 12 area entrepreneurs
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Chicago’s First Social Venture Accelerator, Impact Engine, Opens Doors to Innovation and Investment
CHICAGO, October 11, 2011 — Second to none, Chicago takes the lead as a hub for impact investors in the Midwest. With the leadership of Impact Engine’s founding investment team of Chicago entrepreneurs Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand, Dennis Barsema, Nick Rosa, Cary Chessick, Carol and Larry Levy, and Wendy Abrams, Impact Engine offers funding, resources and [...]
