Joel Solomon is a founding partner at Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission-driven venture capital firm. He’s invested in more than 100 early growth-stage companies, and his work is proof that business and the environment can do more than just coexist: they can help each other thrive.
Joel Solomon is the co-author of the Clean Money Revolution and a founding partner at Renewal Funds, a venture capital firm that invests in early growth stage companies in North America. He’s invested in over 100 early growth-stage companies in North America, delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. He is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF’s “Integrated Capital Instituteâ€, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.
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