Invest for Impact 2024: Pitch Competition and SIF Report

Meet students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals on the cutting edge of impact investing at the completion of the semester for the two student run investment funds.

Haas Impact Fund’s Invest for Impact Pitch Competition

Hear from our MBA Student Venture Partners as they pitch five early-stage startups that are tackling the world’s most pressing challenges to a panel of impact investing industry judges. The winning team’s company will receive a $75,000 investment from the Haas Impact Fund.

Sustainable Investment Fund’s Annual Report

With over $4 million dollars invested across diverse asset classes, the Haas Sustainable Investment Fund is the longest running and first of its kind student managed Sustainable Investment Fund. It is a unique, hands-on opportunity for MBA students to act as fund managers and stewards of responsible investments. Hear from them directly about their decision-making and the returns they achieved across the market.

Agenda:

• 9:00am - 9:10am Welcome: Brief overview of day
• 9:10am - 9:20am SIF Opening Remarks
• 9:20am - 10:30am SIF Report
• 10:30am -10:45am Q&A
• 10:45am - 11:00am Break
• 11:00am - 11:15am Welcome: HIF class & competition
• 11:15am - 1:00pm Pitch Competition
• 1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch in Spieker Forum
• 2:00pm - 2:30pm Keynote Speaker
• 2:30pm - 3:00pm Team feedback and Winner is Announced!
• 3:30pm - 5:00pm Reception at Freehouse

More information on the Haas Impact Fund: https://haas.berkeley.edu/saif/curriculum/haas-impact-fund/

More information on the Sustainable Investment Fund, including previous Annual Reports: https://haas.berkeley.edu/saif/curriculum/sif/.

This event will be held in Spieker Forum and lunch will be provided to in-person attendees. A livestream will also be available for those unable to attend in-person.

Please be respectful of the information shared during this event. The Invest for Impact Pitch Competition is a student exercise focused on live diligence of startup companies, and sensitive/confidential information may be discussed as part of this process.

Host or Publisher Sustainable and Impact Finance at Berkeley Haas