(Outlet: Financial Times) Once reserved for philanthropists, foundations and investors are prepared to accept lower returns to achieve positive social and environmental effects in the impact investing market.…Read More
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WIVA’s Latest Researched Company Aims to Simplify Sustainable Shopping With AI
Wharton Impact Venture Associate (WIVA) Teja Vankireddy (W’26) reflects upon sourcing SISTAIN, an AI-driven marketplace enabling non-toxic living.…Read More
Leveraging ESG to Drive Health Impacts
Turner ESG Fellow and WIVA Investment Associate Teadora Dragic, C’25, explores how businesses can invest in the social determinants of health and the communities they operate in.…Read More
Meet Tyler Jonas: Making a Difference at Wharton and Beyond
Even at a business school filled with the best and the brightest, Tyler Jonas stands out for her role in helping grow two experiential learning programs that began about the same time she was a freshman: Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA) and the Penn Medicine – Wharton Fund for Health (Fund for Health).…Read More
Wharton Women in ESG
This March, the ESG Initiative celebrates International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Meet the women trailblazing the future of ESG, engage with our leading gender lens investing research, learn about the projects we support by and for women, and more.…Read More
WIVA’s Latest Researched Company Aims to Improve Learning Outcomes for Indigenous Students
7GG was born when researchers, including co-founder Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, analyzed the learning outcomes of Native American and Alaskan Native students. They observed that these Indigenous students were underperforming compared to other students across the United States, and that existing approaches to change the outcomes were not yielding results. Digging deeper into the research, they hypothesized that integrating familiar language and culture into math education could improve test outcomes.…Read More
WIVA students connected a gaming startup addressing youth mental health to crowdfunding platform
Students at Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA), an experiential investing program at the Wharton School, researched SuperBetter, a science-backed mental health startup addressing mental health challenges for youth. Impressed by its potential impact, they connected the company to the crowdfunding platform Republic.…Read More
WIVA Helps Facilitate Impact Investment into Ed-Tech Startup mytaptrack
The student team at Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA) researched education technology startup mytaptrack and connected them to the crowdfunding platform Netcapital. …Read More
WIVA Explores Melanence, an E-Learning Startup Focused on Communities of Color
A team of Penn students in Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA) researched Melanence – an online professional ecosystem where communities of color are empowered to grow skills, build networks, and earn additional income.…Read More